Excerpt from CATCH FISH NOW! on Florida's East Coast

===CHAPTER 1===
INTRODUCTION
This book is about fishing. Oh, not just any old fishing. We're going to be talking about some of the world's best ... saltwater sport fishing on Florida's fabled East Coast. That's where the action is. The Florida East Coast is unequivocally a fisherman's paradise. By any standard, it has it all. Over 40 premier game fish that approach world record sizes and cooperate 12 months of the year. Incredible water that just demands to be fished in all its glory. And, a diversity of opportunities that makes a fisherman's toughest choice ... what to fish for today. No kidding. Florida's East Coast does have it all. 


St. Mary's River - Georgia Line Biscayne Bay


CATCH FISH NOW! on Florida's East Coast is about the 400 miles or so of coastline highlighted above. But obviously, we'll be talking about a lot more than just coastline. Here are just a few of the interesting (and fishy) features that make the East Coast a sensational place to fish. 
  • Immensely fertile estuaries full of sea grass, oyster bars, salt marshes, and an intricate network of tidal creeks and rivers. 
  • An Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) that parallels the coastline and provides superb fishing opportunities the length of the state. 
  • A famed 165-mile long lagoon that hosts over 700 species of fish and is a frequent location of new world records. 
  • Fourteen inlets that connect incredibly rich inland waters with an Atlantic Ocean that shares the same characteristic. 
  • Three ports that provide homes for some of Florida's largest game fish. 
  • An Atlantic surf that provides miles and miles of near-shore structure that's always loaded with fish. 
  • Fifteen ocean piers that bring a significant additional dimension to fishing the surf and near-shore waters. 
  • Literally hundreds of artificial reef sites complemented by an abundance of natural fish-attracting bottom features. 
  • The incredible river of warm water called the Gulf Stream - that at places comes within eyesight of the beach. 
  • And then, there's Biscayne Bay.. 
And that hardly does justice, even as an intro, to Florida's East Coast. There's lots more as you'll see shortly. 

 
 


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