Year: 2012

It is humbling how nature can turn our status quo and expectations on their heads. I write this from Florida, where we nervously watch the National Hurricane Center web site every year from June through October (and have recently escaped major damage), and watch in awe the coverage of the destruction brought by hurricane Sandy […]

Seasons on the Flats; by Bill Horn Bill Horn has presented the flats fishing community with a delightful and valuable story about the seasons in the Florida Keys, focused on his time spent in and around Marathon. If you have not yet hunted gamefish on the Keys’ flats, but are planning to do so, you […]

Recommendations for new Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary management and regulations could be hammered out by October 2013, according to a Sanctuary Advisory Council timeline. The volunteer members of the Advisory Council received a draft work plan for the 2,900-square-mile marine sanctuary at its Tuesday meeting in Key Largo.  The group will be asked to […]

Scientists recording data and tagging juvenile tarpon. The latest sampling of the ongoing Lemon Bay Juvenile Tarpon Habitat Restoration Project occurred on October 12, 2012.  A total of 26 juvenile tarpon were caught and 13 were large enough to be electronically tagged.  A system of radio antennae will determine their movements throughout the creek system and […]

Red Mangroves Growing in ENP For a great glimpse into the past, the National Park Service recently released a collection of vintage photographs highlighting life and history in Everglades National Park.  

As a flats guide in Placencia, Belize, once told me: “Guys can tell you roughly how many tarpon and bonefish they’ve caught on fly rod, but they remember exactly how many permit they’ve caught – where, when, every last detail.” The permit has achieved this vaunted status because of its natural wariness when in shallow […]

Over on the Deneki Outdoors blog, there are 3 great tips for catching more bonefish.  The ultimate tip is listen to your guide at all times since he’ll have seen more bonefish landed than you can imagine.  Check out the others.

The River is Full of Want.  By Louis Cahill Missing Tails.  Bjorn Stromsness ponders the elusive tailing bonefish. The Sweep Set.  Phil Monahan explains how and why you should set downstream.

Congratulations to Paul Hampton of Estero, Florida, the winner of Bonefish & Tarpon Trust’s September gear giveaway and a selection of Fly Boxes from Cliff Outdoors.  All new members joining at the $50 level are also entered to win an end of year drawing for a trip for two to Ascension Bay Bonefish Club. Don’t […]

With rainfall at a record pace in some places, water managers are struggling to lower water levels in Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades.  South Florida has been saturated by what is shaping up as the wettest of wet seasons. Water managers are struggling to deal with high-water concerns across a region left brimming by Tropical […]