Spencer Leach was visiting for his grandparents for Christmas and caught his first flounder of the beach at Boca Grande.

Ken Izzo of Rotonda caugh this 4-foot bonnethead shark in Stump Pass on half a mullet.

Scott Sarver caught this bull redfish off the beach at Manasota Key.

Fort Myers college student Joe Cerniglia with a 6-foot sandbar shark.

Bruce Smith of Punta Gorda with a 33-inch bull red caught and released in Charlotte Harbor.

Jeff Watkins Jr. with a hard-fighting Charlotte Harbor redfish.

Doug Roth and Jim Bandy with a pair of beautiful redfish caught with Capt. Scott Banes.

Fishin' Frank's shrimp dipper Jenae Reynolds caught this oversize red with Capt. Karl Butigian of KB Back Country Charters.

One of several Mayan cichlids David caught and released in a private lake.

Scott Himes of Englewood with a big flounder he caught in Lemon Bay.

One of four keeper sheepshead and several trout caught by Ontario visitor Noah Chevrette, fishing with his father Rick and Capt. Robin Leach of Punta Gorda Charters.

Jeff Connor caugh his first barracuda on Islamorada's patch reefs.

Laslo Tari of Port Charlotte with a good 7-pound bass.

Capt. Mike Myers shows an Atlantic sharpnose caught on the (appropriately enough) Captain Michael, an Islamorada headboat.