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I was first introduced to stone crabs as a waiter years ago in Key West. I thought they were pretty tasty, and I also didn’t mind the high pri…
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I was lucky to have an opportunity to fish with Capt. Zack Lewis, an old friend’s son who is now guiding from the Blackwater Bar and Grill on …
I have had interesting debates about whether hurricanes or tornadoes are worse. I spent my early youth living in tornado alley in the Midwest …
I have had interesting debates about whether hurricanes or tornadoes are worse. I spent my early youth living in tornado alley in the Midwest …
When you pull up to lake you’re not 100 percent familiar with, how on earth is it possible to identify water where the bass may be biting? Thi…
Spring forward, fall back. “To change, or not to change; that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler…” Let’s not get into that argument now. But…
The medical staff at Peace River Wildlife Center does amazing things on a daily basis. But the extent of the injuries we see and the number of…
Do you have a dog? If you answered yes, I like you 10 percent better than I otherwise would. I can’t imagine life without at least one dog. My…
The anglers on my boat are always looking around at all the beauty of the area I have them fishing in. They’re constantly telling me how magni…
Soft plastic lures come in so many styles, colors, brands and flavors that you could fish all day every day for five years and not have a chan…
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With water temperatures dropping down to 75 degrees and stone crab traps getting put out in the Gulf, it’s almost time for some fun tripletail…
Our reader survey is well underway, and while we’re nowhere near done gathering data, we’ve learned some surprising things.
Mark Twain was first credited with the quip that “golf is a good walk spoiled” in the Saturday Evening Post in 1948. Oddly enough, Samuel Lang…
For the past year and a half, I have been on the fence about whether to buy a new boat or to hang on to the boat I have and simply repair and …
It has been quite a few years since I have been to Oscar Scherer State Park on a birding trip. So I was excited to go on Deb Johnson’s Venice …
I’m tired of all the negative “news” about our algae problems. We are hearing about horror and devastation. There certainly have been very dev…
Quick quiz: What do the following three things have in common? A floating coconut. A blade of turtle grass. The Great Barrier Reef. If you sai…
Learn about Florida red tide blooms — including the challenging bloom of 2017-18 — during a Boca Grande red tide forum featuring scientists, u…
The Kayak Club of Greater Charlotte Harbor organized a Halloween raid on the Peace River and the Nav-A-Gator. Dressed up in face makeup, old c…
A monarch butterfly drinks the nectar of milkweed as a monarch caterpillar munches on the plant’s leaves. Mary Lundeberg’s column on these rem…
Charlotte Harbor’s dolphins are spectacular animals. Dolphins are not porpoises, but dolphins can porpoise. And at times they make quite a sho…
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The WaterLine reader survey is up and running, and there are five $50 Publix gift cards up for grabs. Help make WaterLine the best it can be —…
Yes, I know that fall officially arrived more than a month ago. And I know that the plants and animals around us have been changing behaviors …
When I was little, my Dad would take my brother and me fishing in Pioneer Park in Zolfo Springs. We would fish from the banks of the Peace Riv…
Let’s explore the facts of red tide. We hear so many varied “facts,” and often they contradict one another. Many come from sources we want to …
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How do you feel about WaterLine? I run into a lot of people who tell me how much they enjoy the magazine, but I always ask them the same quest…
At Peace River Wildlife Center, our primary mission is to rehabilitate orphaned and injured native Florida wildlife and get the healthy indivi…
My favorite tournament of the year is our season-ending Classic event. Nothing is better than finishing the year with some bragging rights goi…
Here we are again: We made it through another hot and stormy Southwest Florida summer. Now, the winds are changing, the days are shorter, the …
With last weekend’s cold front, we saw our first taste of winter’s north winds making conditions less than ideal for boating on local waters. …
Autumn is normally a great time to be an angler in Southwest Florida — but we have some questions to be answered, don’t we? Even though my sum…
Often my wife and I will take the RV on overnight trips. If we are looking to just get away for a night, or even spend a day somewhere and we …
Well, the snowbirds are headed back down already. With the loss of tourism revenue from the red tide, I think this year they will be welcomed …
For a lot of people, tarpon season means late spring and early summer, when the big adults migrate to this area for a series of massive spawni…
Catching bass is so much easier when they hit the bait hard so you know they are there. But when they aren’t slamming it, you get bites that c…
I can’t predict the future, but everything has come back to life for now. We looked around and fished some on Sunday and Tuesday last week and…
This year, while all eyes and focus were along our coast, something was happening in the Harbor that went mostly unnoticed. And no, it wasn’t …
I was thumbing through some of mom’s old scrapbooks and came across this photo from 1976. It shows a younger and much thinner version of mysel…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a wide-ranging bill to improve the nation’s water infrastructure, including a Flori…
I was thumbing through some of mom’s old scrapbooks and came across this photo from 1976. It shows a younger and much thinner version of mysel…
“You call that a deer? My dog’s bigger than that!” Sorry to disappoint, but Florida is not known for its trophy bucks. Look, if you want big g…
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While not the most successful release in the history of wildlife rehabilitation, the bald eagle dubbed Icarus returned to the skies after 10 m…
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Due to some changes here at the office, I’ve been spending a little more time on Facebook lately. While there’s some good stuff on social medi…
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If I ever found myself with nothing to eat other than canned tuna … well, I guess I would die of starvation. That is the one thing I can’t sta…
There are few things in the fishing world more exciting than seeing the water erupt around your bait as a huge fish savagely attacks it. If th…
Well, thanks to Hurricane Michael, we will be seeing our first cold front of the year. What bothers me is that it’s happening while we head ou…
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