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This seems to have been one of the coldest winters we have had in South Florida in a long time. Back in the winter of 2009-2010, we had extended periods of cold weather resulting in major fish deaths. With the cold temps starting super early this year, a lot of us were afraid of the same situation happening again. Every time I'd go out looking for peacock bass in our South Florida waterways, it would be a ghost town; not a fish in sight. I came across a peacock corpse on the bank at one of the spots, which was...

Made a quick weekend trip to the mountains to enjoy some of the cold weather......... Or so we thought..... We rolled into town, hoping to see some snow, and snow we got. But it also brought some strong 30 knot gusts of freezing air along with it. Our trip consisted of a rainy hike at the Raven Cliff Falls Trail as the winter storm approached, we went on the Land Rover Off Road Experience at the Biltmore in Asheville, NC and we fished one morning on the Soque.  Special thanks to Alex over at River's Edge on the Soque for...

So my buddy Chris and I had planned to make a Cast and Blast trip up to Louisiana for some duck hunting and redfishing. But when the week arrived, a cold winter blast had just passed through Louisiana, and was headed towards Florida. We contemplated what to do, and decided to stay in Florida and hunt the East Coast. So we set our sights on making our way to Merritt Island, to hunt the refuge in the morning, then look for redfish in the afternoon. The weather forecast had said it would rain through the night, then stop early and...

I made it out to the park with my buddy Damian a couple days ago to fish a few hours. We spent the morning fishing the glades, the snook bite has been great. Only managed to get one good one to hand, cause they cut through the 25lb tippet with ease. But they were in schools crushing mullet, mixed in with some good sized jacks. Damian hooked one right near the skiff, and thought it was a jack, so he tried horsing it in. The fish came up, turned and broke off the leader to show that it was a...