Captain Experiences founder Jonathan Newar explains why booking a fishing charter used to be a gamble, and how his platform paired licensed, insured guides with reviews that only anglers who actually fished the trip could leave. A partner feature from 2020, restored from the In The Spread archive.
Why does a ledge hold scamp while flat rock holds red porgy? Survey data and In The Spread captains explain how bottom structure sorts reef fish through relief, hole size, current and edges, and how to pick the depth, bottom type and spot for your target species.
The fall mullet run stacks snook, tarpon, and jacks against the beach and jetties at Sebastian Inlet. This breakdown covers when the run peaks, how to read a feeding school, where each fish sets up, and the live baits and lures that earn strikes from mid-September through October.
Most anglers obsess over which lure to buy and ignore what actually gets bit. This is the trolling breakdown: the plugs, feathers, cedar plugs, and spreader bars that raise yellowfin, blackfin, and bluefin, and the speed, position, and color calls that make any of them work.
Summer heat drives kingfish, wahoo, and tuna below the surface, and a trolling planer is how you follow them down. What the size numbers mean, how deep they run, wire and bait choices, and the staggered two-line spread that comes through every turn without a tangle.
