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What a difference a week in October makes when water temperatures finally drop out of the 80s! Fishing action offshore, inshore and in fresh water pretty much exploded.

It's no fault of the fish that Southwest Florida fishing activity always is slow in September.

The weather and fish have been very cooperative for anglers taking advantage of the September weekends in addition to the fall red snapper season, the reopening of gray triggerfish and gag grouper, plus lots of other tasty bottom fish and pelagics.

With lots of Southwest Florida anglers down in the Florida Keys for the opening of regular lobster season, and lots more just not willing to deal with record-setting heat, there's plenty of room out on the water.

GALVESTON — The owners of a fishing charter vessel are facing a negligence claim after a passenger was thrown into the side of the vessel.