Some years, they should change their name to sand flee. “Yes, they’re scarce for us, also,” says Gene Lytwyn, who owns and operates The Fishin’ Hole in downtown Daytona Beach. Gene then offers the ...

The freshwater fishing is in a kind of climatic limo. It’s hot, then cold. It’s windy, then still. This is most apparent in the speckled perch bite. There are fish found shallow, but they’re under ...

Among those in the know, most local anglers trace the lack of sand fleas to a nasty nor’easter that pummeled our shores in November of 2021. Most, not all. More on that shortly. The sand flea — a ...

Some of the best fish foods you can cast out might require you to collect them yourself or find a regional shop that carries harder-to-find baits. There might even be a few species on this list that ...