Patriotic Angler Fishing Podcast

Back to the grindstone with more fishing questions from our listeners. This weeks questions on fishing cover Blackfin Tuna regulations, Life jackets, Bass Culling, Fish short striking topwater lures and the solutions to hooking them. Kingfishing in the Clearwater Florida area and questions on redfish feeding and tailing along with snook.

This show is dedicated to Captain Todd Davis, who died from a boating accident. It is with a saddened heart that I ask all my listeners to have Captain Todd and his family in their thoughts and prayers. Anyone who is a top dog in fishing knows who Captain Todd is. I summarize what I knew of his life as a Captain, professional fisherman and as a really good man with integrity, character and a incredible everlasting mark on the fishing world. Knowing Captain Todd Davis is one of the men who helped change many people's lives through fishing, including mine. He will always be a big part of my fishing life. So I ask all of you to catch a fish and release it in honor of Captain Todd Davis.

Asked by our listeners to do some more Ask A Captain questions on the air. So I picked another assortment of questions of all things fishing. From Florida to many other areas of the United States. We give lots of good information for all kinds of fishing. Just answering the fishing questions reminds me of all the fishing tactics and techniques that you never hear any other fishing shows. So sit back and listen to me destroy the English language! lol

Slow jigging or slow pitching is a fishing technique that was developed and used in Japan over 10 years ago.

It now is a craze in the United States, even though it has been around the United States for at least 5 years. The reason the Japanese came up with the idea is to implement some new fishing techniques in areas that were highly over fished.

Since they were able to locate the fish, yet not able to get the fish to eat out of hunger, they worked on a method that would get a reaction strike from the fish, rather then a hunger strike. Speed jigging or butterfly jigging was already around and the success had been good and it all worked on the reaction strike theory. The movement of the speed jigging and the original butterfly jig was a vertical reaction presentation.

But the idea and movement of the lure being vertical was itself was what they wanted to change.

This week we have Edwin, a high school angler, again on the show to talk about the seven most common complaints about fishing from last weeks show. We also discuss some solutions to the complaints and equipment failures. There also is not just one answer to some of the fishing failures. We give you more then a few options and tips to eliminate the complaints and problems your having.

In this episode I asked a whole bunch of anglers, women, men, young and old, the question “What Do You Dislike About Fishing”. I asked anglers to tell me their first thoughts to the answers of “What Do You Dislike About Fishing”. Some were one word answers and some where a few paragraphs long. I found it very amusing and fun what these many anglers thought.

Triggerfish 101 gives you all the basics to effectively catch Grey Triggerfish, since most anglers have a hard time doing so. Why fish for Gray Triggerfish? Well they are one of the best eating fish in the ocean and there is an abundance of them. They will challenge your fishing skills like no other bottom feeder. Also being a very Aggressive feeder and relentless in their attacks upon anything they perceive as food

The controversial American Red Snapper from being commercially exploited, to being one of many anglers favorite fish to target. They are a deepwater snapper that thrives especially in the Gulf of Mexico. As always we talk a little about the biology of the fish, where to locate them and the habitat they live in and how to catch more of them and bigger sized red snapper. There are always a few facts that have never been talked about that will make you a better Red snapper angler.

The mystique of the bonefish is that it is an elusive fish to catch, hence the names the gray ghost and the silver fox. But with some basic information like this Bonefish 101 series, we make it much easier for you. How to find and locate bonefish. How to approach bonefish and the techniques and tactics to do so. Not much different that chasing other species of fish. If you have not caught a bonefish, put it on your list. It's a fishing experience you will never forget.