With kayak fishing growing in popularity, a tournament series is being launched at the end of this month for all those who enjoy casting a line in between paddles. ...more

November 27, 2009

With kayak fishing growing in popularity, a tournament series is being launched at the end of this month for all those who enjoy casting a line in between paddles. ...more

November 21, 2009

Restoration has been completed on the Tarpon Springs. The city's sponge boat, which has become an attraction and photo opportunity at the Sponge Docks, is once again shipshape. ...more

September 18, 2009

By June Tarpon Spring's sponge boat tourist attraction should be refurbished to its former glory. Repairs to the former sponge boat that bears the city's name are being undertaken as the city focuses revitalization efforts on sprucing up its Sponge Dock's cultural district, along Dodecanese Boulevard. The work would include restoration of the City Marina, to the east of the Sponge Docks. ...more

March 28, 2009

Fishing is only one threat to Florida's most populous sea turtle. Oil rig spills make them sick. Plastic fishing line cuts their flippers. Boat propellers slice their bodies. They mistake garbage, especially plastic bags, for food. Heavy metals in their food sources and new diseases also cause illnesses in the aquatic reptiles. ...more

February 12, 2009

While federal and state fishery regulators conjure up management schemes to maintain certain spawning potential ratios, the rapidly increasing price of fuel has dramatically changed that equation. This is a pivotal moment in the history of Florida fishing, as recreational boat owners, charter skippers and the commercial fishing industry must evaluate the serious cost/benefit ratio of offshore fishing. ...more

August 1, 2008

Down here in the so-called Sportfishing Capital of the World, there's a saying among anglers: Even during an economic depression, a man has money for beer and fishing. ...more

June 18, 2008

ISLAMORADA - Down here in the so-called "Sportfishing Capital of the World," there's a saying among anglers: Even during a depression, a man has money for beer and fishing. ...more

June 17, 2008

The journey starts at the dock here, on Long Island, about an hour's drive east of Manhattan. And it all comes back to Point Lookout, too. ...more

November 18, 2007

In the thousands of years man has depended on seafood, most of the world's fishing grounds have been discovered and exploited. ...more

November 14, 2007