A Website for that Angling Infopreneur in You! Inshore Florida

FISHING RULES!

Florida offers anglers year round fishing, abundant locations and a huge diversity of fishes, both freshwater and saltwater. However, anglers must have the appropriate fishing license for participation in any of these fishing opportunities.

Florida freshwater fishing licenses are available in many locations through out the state. Anglers can buy them at tackle shops, sports retailers, on the internet by visiting https://www4.wildlifelicense.com/fl/start.php or by calling (888) 347-4356, but the most inexpensive location to purchase a Florida Freshwater Fishing License is at the local tax collectors office.

Who needs a fishing license in Florida? Florida law requires anglers from 16 through 65 to purchase and carry a fishing license if they are freshwater fishing throughout the state or angling from a boat in saltwater. Whether they are residents of Florida or not and all anglers under 16 years of age or over 65 years of age, or anglers who are fishing with a cane pole in the county where they are legal residents are not required to buy a Florida Fishing License. There are situations on Florida waters where the angler may need both a Freshwater Fishing License and a Saltwater Fishing License. In addition, not everyone aboard a boat needs to have a fishing license. Fishing licenses are only needed for those who are actually fishing, but non-anglers cannot help with any aspect of fishing, such as netting fish.

 

 

 

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2010 Brings in Tighter management measures for sharks

 

 

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is being urged to have tighter management rules to ensure a healthy shark population. ...

Looking to Put Your Name in the Record Book for a Trophy fish

Close to 1,100 species of fish available for world records

ESPN - USA

According to a report by the American Sportfishing Association based on a ... The IGFA Offshore World Championship is an invitational saltwater catch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you are looking for a great day out on the waters of Tampa Bay, Sarasota Bay, the Ditch or the Gulf of Mexico, off Venice, Florida Inshore Florida-Offshore Anywhere, you have found the right spot. With over 25 years experience fishing the local waters, Gary Anderson and the information found here on Inshore Florida will guarantee a fun filled day of fishing. A typical day on our pages can include a variety of fish such as Snook, Red Fish, Trout to Tarpon, Flounder, Cobia, Spanish mackerel, King Fish, Snapper, Grouper, Permit, Pompano and sharks. All fish, caught from kites to tackle, such as rods and reels with live bait, hard soft and cranks. Tips to how to’s in helping you become a positive mentor through your angling endeavors and spreading the word on being the best at what you do when having fun out on your Inshore Florida waters in developing better marine stewardship skills to pass on down to future generations to follow.

Inshore Florida Offshore Anywhere: is an advocate in helping to keep the sport of game fishing ethical while working to improve the survival outlook for several of our pelagic species through research, habitat protection, public education, community outreach, networking, and advocacy.

 

Articles to Tackle, ReelnFish Products and more; "Respecting the environment is everybody's game, if you plan on playing in the future!"

Gary A. Anderson

WE SELL FISHING KITES TOO!
AKA When it is simply the best at the lowest price anywhere!
 

 

“FISH ON!”

500 pound Goliath Bass Show! Chew On This

 

 

The Old Salt LOOP Tournament & Mike Alstott Family Foundation Inshore/Offshore Shootout:

First of its kind in Tampa Bay!

July 7th – 11th, 2009 • Vinoy Renaissance, St. Petersburg FL

THE OLD SALT LOOP TOURNAMENT:

Operation Loop Development - Suncoast Angler’s Loop Tournament

Eligible species for photo and release billfish division are:

Blue Marlin, White Marlin, Sailfish and Swordfish.

The largest total of billfish points wins first place in Billfish Division. The second largest total wins second place.

The third largest total wins third place. Weighed species are Tuna, Dolphin and Wahoo.

 

KIDS & TEEN FISHING TOURNAMENT:

This FREE event will be held Saturday, July 11. Registration starts at 8am at the Vinoy Renaissance Marina, Downtown St. Petersburg. 

There will be divisions for ages 5 – 18 yrs old. Just bring your Fishing rod and we will supply the rest.

A Kids Zone is also being available for awards following fishing.

 

THE MIKE ALSTOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION INSHORE / OFFSHORE SHOOTOUT:

This unique and rare multiple specie points-style tournament was created to give an equal playing field to all participants.

Points are awarded per specie and per pound or inches of fish.

Only two of the same specie can be weighed and a total aggregate of six fish will determine the winning teams.

 

Visit us online for details on our exclusive Texas Hold’em Tournament and Casino Night.

 

For more information please visit

www.OldSaltFishing.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Venice, Fl., the Sharks Tooth Coast;
World's Shark Tooth Capital Presents:
 
"Vacations to Angle and Dive for!"

By Gary Andersons Inshore Florida-Offshore anywhere, an Angling Entrepreneur’s Adventure, whether you are looking on the skinnies of kayaking the flats to extreme shark angling off the local pier or just a dipping of the sand scoops in search of Megalodon Shark Teeth, the beaches of Venice Florida are known as the World's Shark Tooth Capital. What could be more fun than getting up early...?

Imagine an adventure in combing the beaches, looking for shark's teeth and sea shells and not just any sharks tooth but that of the most feared of all sea creatures of the time,  Megalodon (believed to be over 60 feet in length) with an open jaw largest enough for a six foot person to stand in.  Chances are good on excavating one of these teeth and more along the shoreline of our Venice Florida beaches, with sand scoop but do not, despair if the great mega tooth is still buried out there somewhere; tiger, bull, sandbar and mako are a sure scoop. Bring a snorkel and fins to pick up some nice souvenirs off the fossilized coral bottom off Alhambra, which is nice at an eight-foot dive for easy pickings. Further off the beach is “The Bone Yard”, located on the shoals of the “Venice Reef”. A swim from the beach is possible but a boat is better for the return swim can become tiresome. Located in 25 to thirty feet deep waters to the wash or sides of this concrete, rebar structured reef are some rather large finds in big teeth and quaintly too. Located between the Venice Pier and the run off pipes on the beach, the reef is a tricky one to find unless you have its numbers or wish to crisis-cross until you find that 17 foot bump; top of the reef. A eBook called Numbers is out on the market in our shop and worth the dollars for the download; you can have all the dive/angling spots you ever wanted to add to your own numbers book. A listing of all reefs, their consistency and GPS/Loran coordinates. Now you too can fish like the pro’s or dive with the best in finding beauty to artifacts from the depths of Davie Jones Locker!

Prehistoric relics of miniature horses to giant wooly mastodons are strewn everywhere and mixed along among the seashells, which you find here are beyond description! Stunning! If you are looking for a weekend day-trip, remember the beaches of Venice, Florida! Venice is less than an hour's drive south of the Clearwater, Safety Harbor area or driving north from the Ft. Myers area; it is the perfect place for a family adventure! Six to nine foot sharks are caught and released in an Eco-Angling Event on the weekends by local area anglers from the pier at Sharky’s, (and rightly named so!), catching present day tigers, bulls, nurse, hammerheads and at least 10 other smaller varieties of “jaws.”

Great restaurants to places to stay, motels to quaint Bed and Breakfast’s; Venice Florida is but centrally located to fun and adventures abound. Drop on by and see just why downtown Venice is a transudation of laid backed luxury in visitor’s reclamations of our old style Floridian past. “Pull up a chair and stay awhile, y’here!”

 

BASIC NUMBERS;

An Anglers Bible to Neptune’s Secrets

$9.99

INFO YOU CAN USE:

LORAN is an acronym for Long Range Navigation. LORAN has an absolute accuracy of only about 600 feet in a strong signal coverage area and in favorable weather conditions. However, since the 1970s, LORAN users have relied on that systems ability to repeatedly get them back to a previously recorded location with good accuracy. Loran’s repeatable accuracy was superior to anything else commercially available at the time. In very good coverage areas, LORAN could get you to within 50 feet of your previously visited location. LORAN has poor absolute accuracy, since it transmits at a relatively low frequency (100 kHz), and due to electrical interference caused by the distance and bearing from the LORAN transmitters, other electronic transmissions (TV, microwave, etc.) and the weather between the receiver and the transmitters.

 

GPS is an acronym for Global Positioning System. GPS is a satellite-based navigation system provided by a network of 24 satellites in six separate orbital paths. Each satellite circles the earth about twice every day, traveling at almost 1.8 miles per second. The major advantage of GPS is its all-weather, worldwide availability and absolute accuracy. The signals are transmitted at an extremely high frequency (1.575 GHz or about 1.5 billion cycles per second). This makes GPS signals impervious to fluctuations caused by weather. However, the interference caused by SA effectively reduces GPS's absolute and repeatable accuracy to approximately 330 feet. Therefore, uncorrected GPS with SA in effect is inferior to the repeatable accuracy of LORAN. However, this level of accuracy for GPS with SA was too low for U.S. Coast Guard requirements for harbor navigation, so the U.S. Coast Guard developed a system of differential corrections that enabled them to effectively correct for the SA errors.

 

 

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