Florida Sportsman Sea Trials

Name: Florida Sportsman Sea Trials
Released: 2025-03-12T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Sports

Welcome to Sea Trials with Florida Sportsman Magazine. I’m Florida Sportsman Editor Jeff Weakley – a lifelong boater, career journalist, and South Florida angler with a practical eye. In this show, we put the best saltwater boats and power to the test, tackling the real-world challenges faced by everyday anglers.

2025 · 5m

EPISODE 1

Bait Stop

Get to the bait-catching hotspot quickly, quietly and efficiently with Mercury’s 5.7 L V10 Verado outboard. Hold on the spot with Joystick-integrated Skyhook and Drifthook features. Triple installation on the Contender 39 ST. kwfishing
EPISODE 2

Reef Roundup

Fuel efficiency and open-water performance of the Mercury 5.7L V10 Verado outboard are put to the test on a rough-seas run to an offshore fishing reef. A triple-engine setup on a step-hull performance bluewater fishing boat from Contender.
EPISODE 3

Edge Quest

See how a 39-foot center console leaves a clean wake at trolling speeds under the propulsion of the Mercury 5.7L V10 outboard. The engines deliver 150 amps of DC power to keep batteries charged up while powering electronics, amplifiers, pumps and other accessories.
EPISODE 1

Gear Up for a Goliath Challenge

At a tackle shop on Florida’s Treasure Coast, we rig the PENN Authority 8500 and assemble leaders and baits for one of Florida’s ultimate inshore fishing challenges, the tightly limited goliath grouper harvest program kwfishing
EPISODE 2

Catching a Keeper No Easy Task!

Pull a permit for next year’s goliath grouper season? Learn where and how to drop your baits on PENN’s ultimate spinning combo for the delicious and hard-fighting “slot limit” grouper.
EPISODE 3

What’s Next on the Table?

PENN Fishing sponsors a review of Florida’s innovative goliath grouper harvest program, which engages citizen science to help further conserve a once-imperiled coastal fishery resource.