Fine 35" Aucilla red Colby Hough caught working topwater with a Mirrolure 808 Top Dog between storms. He and Bret Hader caught and released 12 overslot reds along with some 21 trout in excess of 22", ...

Governor Ron DeSantis requested assistance for North Central Florida’s fishing industry to repair damage from Hurricane Idalia. He wrote a letter on Wednesday to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to ...

Otto Hough (Facebook @myhometownfishing) says, ” Ian! That event sums it up for this past week through Thursday. Fortunately for the Big Bend, the direct storm impacts were dodged as the hurricane ...

Otto Hough (myhometownfishing.com) says, ”In a word, scorcher! Triple digit heat indices over the past week or so, on into today, forced many an angler to start the fishing day very close to safelight ...

Otto Hough (Facebook @myhometownfishing) says, ” Fish were located and caught this past new moon weekend, though late afternoon boomers made for brief windows of opportunity to fish safely during the ...

Last report of 2022. Wow, what a year in fishing. The Big Bend and surrounding waters of our great State offer some of the best fishing anywhere in the country. From lakes and spring fed rivers to the ...