Don Mosby with a nice black drum caught at the Placida trestle.

Valerie Hazlett, general manager of the new Weston’s Wanna B Inn on Manasota Key, caught this 45-pound amberjack and another half-dozen while fishing with Capt. Chris O'Neill.

Linda Spitzler of Port Charlotte with a tasty pompano she caught while fishing with Capt. Cayle Wills outside Turtle Bay.

Michelle Rhees caught this 13-pound black drum from her Burnt Store Isles dock.

Doug Rhees with a lovely east wall pompano.

Dan Marks, a snowbird from Traverse City, Mich., caught this 20-inch, 5-pound sheepshead in a PGI canal.

Jeffrey Milano caught and released this 38-inch redfish near

Panama City Beach in the Florida panhandle.

Shaun Smith of Niagara Falls, N.Y., caught and released this redfish on the Peace River while visiting here recently.

6-year-old Coen Kraft caught this hard-fighting redfish while fishing with his dad Zach.

Jennifer Mosier picked a great calm morning to fish Charlotte Harbor with Capt. Robin Leach and bring home sea trout for lunch.

Capt. Chuck Redden caught this 62-pound cobia on a trip some 60 miles offshore. They also had a good day on snapper and released more grouper than they could count.

Christopher Fabian of Harrisburg, Penn., caught and released this planehead filefish.

Dale Wolgemuth of Englewood and Mechanicsburg, Penn., with a 16.5-inch sheepshead.

Bill McCray, Richard Madison and Don Mosby had a good day of red grouper fishing when the season was still open.