‘Follow the Fish’ Archives
The heat is on and the fish are hungry in the 10,000 Islands
FOLLOW THE FISH Capt. Pete Rapps Pete@CaptainRapps.com The Summer heat is here, and the bite is on! Day time air temperatures are now hovering around 90 degrees each day, which has now brought the average water temperature up to 86 degrees. Your best bet for fishing the shallow flats for the next few months will be early in the [...]
May fishing in the 10,000 Islands
FOLLOW THE FISH Capt. Pete Rapps Pete@CaptainRapps.com May is typically one of our mildest months of the year. We look forward to calm days on the water now that those windy days of April are behind us. It is typically a dry month too, so there is not a lot of running away from those pesky afternoon thunderstorms that will be upon us next [...]
Take the kids fishing, and keep them on the bite!
FOLLOW THE FISH Capt. Pete Rapps Pete@CaptainRapps.com When we were children, my grandfather used to take my brother and me fishing all he could. Grandpa just loved to have us out on the boat. Sometimes he would take us out to the shallow reefs and we would drop live shrimp down on small hook. We would have a blast reeling in [...]
Spring fishing is on its way!
FOLLOW THE FISH Capt. Pete Rapps As March rolls into April, our average air temperatures will typically range between 61 and 86 degrees. This will, in turn, keep our average water temperatures up into the mid to high 70’s. Snook are on the move from the back country to the near Gulf river mouths. Best bets for catching Snook during [...]
Follow the TARPON!
FOLLOW THE FISH Capt. Pete Rapps Pete@CaptainRapps.com Each summer giant Tarpon gather in huge schools in different areas around the state of Florida, as they have done for centuries before we even started to fish for them. They are on their annual spawning migration and arrive hungry and ready to eat. Tarpon are considered by [...]
Mid winter fishing in the 10,000 Islands
Capt. Pete Rapps Pete@CaptainRapps.com It has been a relatively mild winter here in the 10,000 Islands. Up until the end of the first week in February, day time air temperatures have been much warmer than normal, which has kept the near shore water temperatures about 5-8 degrees warmer than average. We were seeing water temperatures in the [...]
Species spotlight: Spotted Seatrout
FOLLOW THE FISH Capt. Pete Rapps Pete@CaptainRapps.com Spotted Seatrout are widely known as Speckled trout, Specs, Trout or Spotted Weakfish. Spotted Sea-trout are a common estuarine fish found in the southern coasts of the United States along the south Atlantic and all coastal areas of the Gulf of Mexico. Contrary to its name [...]
February fishing in the 10,000 Islands
FOLLOW THE FISH Capt. Pete Rapps Pete@CaptainRapps.com As January passes, we shall see some small changes in fishing. We were lucky not to be hit with many cold fronts in January. Hopefully the mild winter temperatures continue and the coldest temperatures of the winter will now be behind us. Water temperatures will continue to hover [...]
SPECIES SPOTLIGHT: SNOOK
Follow the Fish Capt. Pete Rapps Pete@CaptainRapps.com The common snook (Centropomus undecimalis) are the most widely distributed species within the Centropomus genus, and have been reported as far north as New York (USA) and throughout the Gulf of Mexico. Common snook are abundant along the Atlantic coast of Florida from Cape Canaveral [...]
January fishing in the 10,000 Islands
FOLLOW THE FISH Capt. Pete Rapps Pete@CaptainRapps.com January is typically our coldest month of the year. The days when the fronts are absent, the sun is shining, and the thermometer gets up into the mid 70’s, can make for some awesome fishing! January is another month when you should keep an eye on your tide chart before planning [...]
