It’s summertime and the fishing is good. At least, that is, for the kids attending summer camp at the Madeira Beach Recreation Complex. Volunteers from Old Salt Fishing Foundation set up, manned, cut bait, baited hooks, helped land catches and directed two fun filled days of fishing camp for the kids attending the summer program… Continue Reading
Fishing Report For July 2019 Covering Port Canaveral, Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach, and Orlando Last Month’s ActionLast month was a bit of a rollercoaster ride with epic fishing to kick the month off, a lull in the middle and right back on top to end the month. It seemed like you could have shot a… Continue Reading
Summer in Florida (in particular on the Nature Coast where the author resides) and scalloping go hand in hand with scallop season just around the corner. Scallops, once so abundant that one could simply pull over on a causeway and wander into the seagrass filling a bag or bucket, saw a percipitace decline in populations… Continue Reading
Fishing Report For June 2019 Covering Port Canaveral, Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach, and Orlando Last Month’s ActionOverall last month came through with some good -enough- fishing. Near shore fishing was good -enough- overall. The snook fishing was awesome and everything else inshore was just ok including the shark fishing. I would say the offshore wasn’t… Continue Reading
The 2019 Spring KING, May 2nd, 3rd & 4th, was a blast to fish, attend in person and watch on live stream. We broke a few records, doled out a big bunch of money, fished the seawall with kids and their families and more…. much more. The tournament captains meeting started off in a soggy… Continue Reading
It is all coming together for some great May fishing on Florida’s Space Coast. Captain Rapp’s Fishiing Report Continue Reading
The Old Salt King of the Beach has, for the better part of its 26 year life, imposed a tournament fishing boundary at 83° 20’ 00” W (approximately 30 miles west of the Johns Pass Safe Water Marker). This mark, the 30 Mile Boundary, is the furthest west anglers may fish in the King of… Continue Reading
Old Salt is blessed, twice yearly, with beautiful King of the Beach tournament art made available over the years by an array of very talented artists. Our team takes these artistic creations and incorporates them into a full range of tournament related marketing and fundraising efforts. Marine artist Jessica Shipley has graced Old Salt with… Continue Reading
With King of The Beach King Mackerel Fishing Tournament around the corner, it seems only fitting to tailor this month article to Kingfishing in Tampa Bay. As of late, the Spring run of these Pelagics is in full force. Reports of jumbo Kings are coming in daily – in and around the bay. When it… Continue Reading
Feeling Lucky? Fishing & boating luck and the superstitions that define it are considered by many to determine who becomes the lucky angler and who does not. I worked ocean going tugs some years back and sailed with a mate who was utterly convinced that onions on a boat were bad, very bad, luck. Made… Continue Reading
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