2024 NATIONAL SEMINAR SERIES FOCAL POINTS:
NATIONAL SUBJECTS WILL FOCUS ON: How to keep track of migrating fish; How weather patterns affect fishing; Fishing deep in the water column; Controlled depth fishing; Using cutting-edge electronics to locate productive areas and game fish; Successful trolling tactics; How fish react to tides, moon phases, water temperature, weather and Solunar periods; Flutter jigging; How to rig and successfully catch fish on light tackle; plus - Where to catch fish year-round in your area!
FORT MYERS, FLORIDA – Fishing beaches, inlets and docks for redfish, snook and tarpon; New pass tactics for bigger snook; Live-chumming for snook; Sea trout by the numbers; No nonsense Gator trout tactics; Big trout on top water plugs; Taking redfish in the backwaters; Bull reds on top water; Tricks that take more and larger tripletail; Buoy and structure fishing for tripletail; Light-tackle fishing for Spanish and king mackerel; Kite fishing for monster kingfish, cobia and blackfin tuna; Permit on wrecks and tidelines; Tricks to make stubborn tarpon eat; South Florida tarpon tactics for Southwest Florida tarpon; Catching more and bigger groupers and snappers; Live-baiting for bottom fish; Strategies for fishing hard bottom and wrecks; Extreme shallow-water grouper trolling; How to read and fish the local offshore waters (locating spin offs from the Loop Current, thermal breaks, warm water fingers and structure for wahoo, dolphin, tuna and billfish); The most effective offshore trolling spreads and strategies for catching more and bigger fish off Southwest Florida; Top dolphin tactics; Offbeat tactics that catch more dolphin; How to target and catch trophy blackfin tuna!
DESTIN, FLORIDA - Tricks for catching more and larger cobia; Successful sight fishing tactics for cobia; How to consistently catch cobia from a small boat; How to make stubborn cobia eat; New tactics for even bigger king mackerel; Speckled trout by the score; Nighttime monster trout tactics; How trout and redfish see colors and how to choose the right lures to fool them; Fishing the passes and beaches for trophy redfish, speckled trout and flounder; Chunking for redfish; Taking redfish year-round; Successful deep water redfish tactics; Top tactics for big flounder; How to locate and catch more flounder; Locate and catch trophy tripletail; Light tackle blackfin tuna; Cutting-edge jigging tactics for amberjack, groupers and snappers; How to locate and catch quality fish on close-to-shore structures; Successful snapper and grouper tactics; Chumming for bottom fish; Kite fishing for kings, tuna, wahoo and dolphin; Chunking tactics for yellowfin and blackfin tuna; Live-baiting for trophy yellowfins; Jigging for tuna; Sub-surface wahoo tactics; How to target trophy wahoo; How to choose, rig and fish the most productive offshore trolling lures; South Florida tactics that take more and bigger Gulf of Mexico dolphin
WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA - Fool-proof red drum tactics; New tricks that take trophy drum; Chunking secrets for big red drum; Light tackle for mackerel; Flounder fast and easy; How to locate and catch trophy flounder; Successful river and ICW fishing strategies; Variety fishing around inlets and jetties and along the beaches; Scoring keeper sheepshead around the bridges, jetties and offshore reefs and wrecks; Taking trophy trout on lures; Selective live-baiting for jumbo trout; Trolling for school trout; Spanish mackerel fast and easy; Successful bottom fishing; How to catch keeper grouper; Flutter- jigging; Sea bass by the score; Top tricks for catching cobia on the wrecks; How to target migrating cobia; Amberjack fast and easy; Offshore trolling tactics; Trolling for yellowfin tuna; Spooning and chunking for yellowfin tuna; Live-baiting for big yellowfin tuna; Secrets for catching more and bigger wahoo; Targeting big dolphin; Offbeat tricks to catch more dolphin; Sub-surface offshore fishing tactics; How to catch North Carolina tarpon; Top offshore trolling spreads!
ISLAMORADA, FLORIDA KEYS – Top secrets for running and gunning for more and bigger dolphin; How to target trophy dolphin by the moon; Cutting edge dolphin trolling tactics; Getting stubborn dolphin to eat; Where and how to target jumbo Florida Keys yellowtail; Secrets to limiting out on Florida Keys yellowtail; Gunning for big grouper; Top reef-fishing tactics (sailfish, cobia, kings, snapper, grouper, amberjack); Light tackle for big muttons; Wreck fishing the productive way; No-nonsense blackfin tuna tactics; Targeting big blackfin tuna; Trolling for blackfin tuna; Dialing in on wahoo; Small boat wahoo trolling tactics; Top Florida Keys offshore trolling spreads; Hand-crank deep dropping for tilefish, queen snapper and barrelfish; How to score quality fish on the patch reefs; Top tactics for fishing channels and bridges for tarpon, snook, permit and big snapper; Tarpon in the creeks; Targeting big mangrove snapper; Secrets of the mangrove snapper spawn; Top flats tactics for permit, tarpon and bonefish; Fishing the backcountry like the pros; Scoring more redfish; fishing Gulf wrecks and rock piles for cobia, snook, mangrove snapper and permit!
ATLANTIC CITY AREA, NEW JERSEY - Trophy stripers on ultra-light tackle; Live-lining for trophy stripers; Top trolling tactics for stripers; Chunking for bluefish; Bluefish on surface lures; Inshore wire-line techniques; Jetty tactics; How to catch more and bigger fluke; Targeting trophy fluke; Secrets of fishing the Cape May Rips; Trophy drum in Delaware Bay; Secrets of fishing Delaware Bay; Top tactics for big blackfish; Catching blackfish by the score; Variety fishing in and around inlets; How to locate and fish productive bottom (blackfish, sea bass, spot and fluke); Back-bay stripers; Successful back-bay fishing; Deep-dropping for tilefish; Can’t-miss tuna-trolling patterns; Modern tuna chunking; Live-baiting for tunas; Advanced methods for big eye, bluefin and yellowfin tuna; Cutting edge lure-trolling tactics; Subsurface offshore trolling; Cutting edge spreader bar and dredge tactics; Secrets for catching more inshore tuna; Reading water temperature charts; Specialized tactics that take more big-eye tuna; How to troll up more wahoo and white marlin!
PORT ST. LUCIE, FLORIDA – Beachfront fishing for tarpon and snook; River fishing for tarpon and snook; New inlet tactics that take the biggest snook and tarpon; Catching snook from the beach; Can’t miss pompano tactics; Speckled trout by the numbers; No nonsense monster trout tactics; Trout on top water plugs; Taking redfish in the ICW; Light-tackle fishing for Spanish and king mackerel; Little known tricks that take more Treasure Coast cobia; How to make stubborn cobia eat; Chunking for cobia; Tricks that take bigger groupers and snappers; Light tackle for monster mutton snapper; Deep jigging for amberjack, African pompano, groupers, snappers, kingfish and wahoo; How to consistently catch trophy gray snapper; Reef and wreck fishing strategies; Targeting permit and African pompano in inlets and on wrecks; Hand-crank deep drop tactics for tilefish and queen snappers; How to read and fish the local offshore waters (locating true edges of the Gulf Stream, thermal breaks, warm water fingers and structure for wahoo, dolphin, tuna and billfish); Top Southern Florida trolling spreads that catch more offshore game fish; Top dolphin tricks; Offbeat tactics that catch more dolphin; How to target and catch yellowfin tuna off Grand Bahama Island; Scoring more wahoo locally and in the Bahamas; How to read and follow the birds to score more tuna and dolphin!
TRUMBULL, CONNECTICUT – Live-baiting for trophy striped bass; Spinner-and-worm fishing for striped bass; Stripers on topwater lures; Diamond- and Flutter jigging for striped bass and bluefish; Inshore wire-line techniques; Bluefish on surface lures; Targeting jumbo bluefish; How to choose, rig and fish the most productive New England artificials; How and where to catch winter flounder by the numbers; Trophy fluke tactics; Bottom-fishing for inshore table fare (flounder, black sea bass, blackfish); Bucktailing for trophy black sea bass; How to find offshore cod and haddock; Jigging for trophy blackfish; Chumming and chunking for bonito and false albacore; bluefin tuna on light tackle and artificial lures; No-nonsense bluefin tactics; Cutting edge tuna trolling patterns; How to create and troll deadly offshore teaser systems (dredges included); Live-chumming and live-baiting for tunas; Kite fishing for sharks and tunas; Hand-crank deep drop tactics; How to find along nearshore and offshore surface temperature breaks; Offshore trolling tactics aboard mid-size boats!
MYRTLE BEACH, SOUTH CAROLINA - Flounder the easy way; Jigging for flounder; Red drum lure tactics; Chunking for red drum; Light tackle for mackerel; Successful river and ICW fishing strategies; Variety fishing around inlets and jetties and along the beaches; Scoring keeper sheepshead around the bridges, jetties and offshore reefs and wrecks; Taking trophy trout on lures; Selective live-baiting for jumbo trout; Trolling for school trout; Successful cobia fishing; Top tricks for catching cobia on the wrecks; How to catch keeper grouper; Speed- jigging; Sea bass by the score; Amberjack fast and easy; Offshore trolling tactics; Trolling for yellowfin tuna; Spooning and chunking for yellowfin tuna; Live-baiting for big yellowfin tuna; Secrets for catching more and bigger wahoo; Targeting big dolphin; Offbeat tricks to catch more dolphin; Sub-surface offshore fishing tactics; Top offshore trolling spreads!