Great White Caught in Florida : Paul M Gozzo

No, Paul M Gozzo didn't catch the 3,000 pound Great White shark, but Fab Marchese did along with Captain Joe Maisano of the Go Fast Fishing Charters on Friday March 15, 2013 fishing in the Gulf of Mexico off the Tampa, Florida coast.

Thank you to the Great White Shark just how bad-ass you are and congratulations Fab Marchese!

                                             Check Out this monster Striped Bass!

                                                              A new Alabama record!!

brought to you by: Paul Gozzo

Food for Thought: The Fish on the Menu at Restaurants

Have you ever thought about the fish you order at restaurants? We have all done this from time to time right? It tastes good, but is that expensive Snapper really Red Snapper or is it actually cheap Talapia doctored up well by a chef and sold at an expensive price usually reserved for Red Snapper?

This article today in USA Today does a good job of explaining just how often this may actually occur.

The non profit group, "Oceana" investigated this mystery and their findings are startling. For example they found that, "87% of the snapper samples were not snapper. White tuna was mislabeled 59% of the time. Between one-third and one-fifth of the halibut, grouper, cod and Chilean sea bass tested were mislabeled".

So what can you do? I'm just not sure. The mislabeling seems to be broad. According to Oceana, "at sushi restaurants, 74% had at least one sample come back mislabeled. At restaurants, 38% had at least one problem sample; in grocery stores, 18% did."

Food for thought....

Paul Gozzo

Snook Fishing has been RED HOT lately

Snook have been all over the beach lately! I have been crushing them from the Jupiter Inlet to the Jupiter Pier for the last two weeks at all different times of the day on all different types of tackle from live bait, poppers, jigs, and even a few on the fly!!

Get out there.

by: Paul Gozzo

575 Tiger Shark on 13 pound test!

This is apparently true: A 575 pound Tiger Shark was caught on 13 pound test line in Australia!

Fly Fishing (trout) industry to take a hit in 2011

A lot of snow in the mountains this past winter creates a lot of water when it melts and "runs-off" in the late spring and summer months and thus often creates a lot of velocity as it melts and rips down the mountains finding its way to rivers and creeks below. Eventually the "flow" drops to the point when float boats can enter the water and fly fishermen can begin to fish from the boat for their beloved trout. Shortly thereafter, the height of the water drops and flow slows to the point where wade-fishermen can enter the rivers and creeks and fish from within the water.

The "run-off" report for 2011 based off of the 2010-2011 snowfall levels has read that fishing will be late this year. So naturally, the fly-fishing industry stands to take a hit as many vacationing anglers looking to book a blue water experience may be put off from doing so this summer.

Now, with the main river which feeds many of these other rivers and creeks, The Yellowstone, being poisoned by oil, the future is even more bleak for many of those outfitters and the like who make their living off of the various services they provide around the fly fishing tourism http://www.rocketnews.com/2011/07/high-water-hurting-montana-fly-fishing-industry-ap/industry.

Paul Gozzo

Bass Fishing is getting hot in south Florida

Bass fishing in south Florida has been getting better every week for the past few weeks...

Check out this beauty that my friend Matt Stiebel caught the other day. It was his first largemouth bass ever weighing in at about 7 pounds.

Paul Gozzo