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Rick's Fishing Tips

TARGETING COBIA IN THE PANHANDLE

Get Your Spinning Rod Out           The cobia bite in the Panhandle is legendary and runs from mid-March through early May, although the entire month of April the fish are swimming strong. We sight fish the majority of the time,...

TARGETING WAHOO IN THE EAST

Go DEEP           Wahoo are open-water pelagics, which means they roam all over the place with little rhyme or reason to their movements. As a rule, you find wahoo in water from 70 feet deep on out, with the majority of fish in 120...

TARGETING SNAPPER IN THE PANHANDLE

Almost Any Depth Will Do           Red snapper inhabit the Gulf waters over natural or artificial bottom in as shallow as 55 feet, and there are some deep holes in Pensacola Bay where there are junk bottom and wreck areas that have...

TARGETING DOLPHIN IN THE SOUTHEAST

Summer Is the Time to Go Bull Riding           Any time we have an east wind in the winter or spring, it brings the dolphin in closer to shore, but as a rule, we don’t mess with them a lot in the winter months. As we get into the...