Florida Sportsman’s Mike Conner joins Capt. Greg Snow in Block Island, RI and learns quite a bit about fishing in a heavy rip current. The day turns into a success, with the crew landing some nice-sized striped bass just off the rip, in the moving water.

Learn to spot, and hook, delicious tripletail. The tripletail is an odd-looking fish that to unsuspecting anglers might resemble a piece of floating debris. They are certainly among the widest ranging of Florida sportfish, found in coastal waters, bays and lagoons, and far offshore in the Gulf Stream. And among the best-eating.

Before pompano jigs and jigging spoons, there was the shell lure One of the downsides to innovation is that proven methods sometimes go by the wayside. Some really neat fishing techniques have been lost in the shuffle over the years. One good example is the utilization of seashells as lures for catching Florida pompano.

Lose yourself (and maybe a few flies) in the tangly wilderness of Cedar Key. Cedar Key is flyfishing central for Big Bend waters. The island offers access to a sprawling salt marsh complex of tidal creeks and channels, Spartina grass, oyster bars, and islands covered with pine, cedar, and cabbage palm.

Hit the surf, then the flats, for an exciting combination. Resembling three Navy SEALS hell-bent on a beach invasion, we scurried through the darkness and over a walkway that crossed the dunes and led to a noisy surf below.

Fly fishing a pristine North Florida stream for Suwannee bass. The Wacissa River is not a place where you concentrate on fishing and just give the scenery a once over when things are slow. Instead, it’s a place so beautiful and so alive that it’s hard to stay focused on the task at hand-namely dropping a fly in just the right spot to entice a lurking Suwannee bass.