Author Archives: David Bolme

Back in August we set out on the adventure of making our own lures, and nearly created a molten lead statue of Jason (see the blog post Molten Lead Is HOT). The goal was to make our own version of … Read More

Even on the Island, most of the time we travel out to our fishing holes in a vehicle. The transportation of choice has been the golf cart formerly known as “Number 2”. Now before your childish potty humor brain area … Read More

When Teresa told me her parents and aunt and uncle were coming to visit, I told her to let them know that if they wanted to eat fish, that they would have to stop in Matlacha at one of the … Read More

It has been a while since our last blog entry, for the most part due to the fairly significant impact of the severe red tide conditions that have continued in our area for months. The most recent month or so … Read More

Well the fishing is challenging these days. The red tide just keeps on hanging around. Each week, there are moments when it seems like we might get a bit of clearing, then another few thousand fish come floating by and … Read More

If you are a regular reader of our blog, you will recall the continuing battle we have with keeping hooked Snook away from dock pilings or from sawing through our leader with their sandpaper like teeth. The result of that … Read More