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Cheeca Lodge & SpaJolsen@cheeca.com (305)517-4449www.cheeca.com November 10, 2013 CHEECA LODGE ALL AMERICAN TOURNAMENT ANGLERS BATTLE FIERCE CONDITIONS TO RELEASE REMARKABLE NUMBER OF KEYS GAMEFISH  ISLAMORADA, FLORIDA KEYS—Weather conditions were rough and windy during the Second Annual Cheeca Lodge All American Backcountry Fishing Tournament, but a tenacious group of 30 anglers fishing on 22 boats managed to […]

Do you have 20 seconds? Join FLYFISHBONEHEAD as a FREE member and they will donate $1 to support BTT. Plus, it’s a totally awesome resource for saltwater fly anglers and they are very conservation-minded. https://www.flyfishbonehead.com/flyfishbonehead-membership/ Flyfishbonehead is the #1 online resource for fly fishing in saltwater. Connecting anglers & travelers to a world of traveling […]

An interesting article on how Dr. Jerry Ault  was able to use his tarpon satellite tagging research to help University of Miami colleague Nick Shay make more accurate hurricane forecasts. Shay was plotting the depth and location of the 26° C isotherm–a zone of warm water that meteorologists find useful since hurricanes are known to intensify […]

Herald writer Sue Cocking caught this BTT tagged bonefish while fishing at Deepwater Cay. Read the article she wrote about her experience at Deepwater and catching a tagged fish here: https://www.miamiherald.com/2013/10/17/3693669/conservation-effort-helps-…

As many of you know by now, the Keys guides are having a tough time because of the National Parks closures, which has severely limited their ability to fish and make a living. This has widespread implications for the fishery as well as the livelihood of guides and other related industries. Please read this letter […]

  Check out our article about our recent bonefish tagging trip on Abaco in the latest issue of This is Fly Magazine. A huge shout out to the hardworking guides who gave up their days off to help with the tagging. We could not do this important work without your support. https://www.thisisfly.com/issue43_4.html?startPage=66&

Because the tarpon fishery is primarily catch and release, it’s long been thought that there were few threats to the tarpon population. But as we have learned more about tarpon over the past 15 years, it’s become clear that we need to be concerned about their juvenile habitats. Juvenile tarpon require mangrove swamps and backwaters […]

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