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Off The Marathon Bottom

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Darcie Arahill’s biggest mutton snapper to date came from 200 feet of water off Marathon in the Florida Keys.

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ottom fishing is about hard-pulling fish and filling the cooler with some delicious table fare. With grouper season in full swing, there may be no better way to get your daily workout than floating over a reef or wreck. And you’d be hard pressed to find a better place to do it than off of Marathon in the Florida Keys.

Darcie Arahill, host of the YouTube channel Darcizzle Offshore, spent a day with Capt. Dave Schugar and the crew with Sweet E’Nuf Charters out of Marathon and absolutely loaded the coolers with mutton snapper, amberjack, blackfin tuna and yellowtail snapper. It was the kind of trip that bottom fishing is supposed to be.

Capt. Dave spent the early part of the day hopping from wreck to wreck and patch reef to patch reef, briefly prospecting each one with baits before moving on in search of hungry fish. He eventually found them over structure in about 200 feet of water.

“You gotta keep moving to find those bites,” said Darcie, understanding the searching it takes to find productive bottom.

But after setting up a drift on this spot, the whole boat knew they were on the fish. The action started quickly and it was fast, with multiple double and triple hookups. They caught some fish vertical jigging, but Darcie’s largest mutton snapper ever—a beautiful 13.6-pounder—was battled off the bottom after it ate a live pinfish. The live-bait rig consisted of a pinfish hooked through the lips with a circle hook, which was tied into 25 feet of leader and a three-way swivel. A 10-oz. teardrop sinker was deployed off the other arm of the swivel to get the bait down to the bottom.

The group hauled several muttons up from the depths, and they also caught amberjack, jack crevalle, bonita and blackfin tuna off the same spot. Capt. Dave took the opportunity to give a quick demonstration on how to properly bleed a blackfin to deliver better tasting fillets to the table. Instead of cutting the fish’s throat, use your hands to tear the gills beneath the gill plate.

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With the fish boxes filling up, Capt. Dave decided it was a good time to head for shallower water to pursue grouper and yellowtail snapper. They ended the run in about 100 feet of water over the sunken center swing span of the original Seven Mile Bridge. In the 1980s, 4,500 tons of concrete and steel from the bridge were sunk as a part of Florida’s artificial reef program.

Constructed in 1912, the Over-Sea Railroad bridge connected the Florida Keys to the mainland and to each other for the first time.

Now pieces of the railroad make great fish habitat.

With a couple heavy-duty grouper rigs deployed with big live grunts, Darcie went to work on the yellowtail. Yellowtail fishing with light tackle offers fast action and delicious fish. It’s a lot of fun and a perfect style of fishing for families, Darcie said. With chum out, it’s as easy as flipping out a piece of cut bait on a lightweight spinning rod and allowing it to drift with the chum until a fish picks up the bait.

As the boxes continued to fill, this time with yellowtail, there was a vicious takedown on one of the grouper rods. A grueling struggle to haul the fish up was rewarded with a big 25-pound black grouper. It was the exclamation point on the end of a fine day on the water.

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t all began with a hungry Finnish guy and a carving knife. It was the 1930s when a simple fisherman made an observation of simple genius: Big fish eat little fish, especially little fish that are wounded. So began one of the greatest fishing stories ever told. As Lauri Rapala fished the waters of Finland’s Lake Paijanne, he quietly rowed and watched. And what he saw was how hungry predator fish would dart into a school of minnows and attack the one that swam with a slightly off-center wobble.

Lauri realized that if he could craft a lure that mimicked the movements of a wounded minnow, he could catch more fish, earn more money, and not spend time constantly baiting lines. So Lauri set to work. He whittled, carved and shaved. Eventually a lure took shape. Using a shoemaker’s knife and some sandpaper, he created his first successful lure from cork in 1936. Tinfoil from chocolate bars formed the lure’s outer surface. Melted photographic negatives were the protective coating. It perfectly imitated the action of a wounded minnow. Legend has it that Lauri sometimes caught 600 pounds of fish a day with that new lure. And as word of his abundant catches spread, the lure’s reputation grew. The rest, as they say, is history. That first lure was the forefather to the lure that has helped more fishermen experience the thrill of more big fish than any other: the legendary Original Floating Rapala.

As fishermen around the world began to catch more and bigger fish with Rapala’s lure, it became clear that what triggered them was the lure’s tantalizing

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ne of the most prolific inshore species available to anglers on any coast, spotted seatrout come in two varieties: eaters and gators.

Eater trout—those measuring in the 15-inch range—are extremely popular, due to their affinity to gather in big schools and chase down lures. Gator trout, however, are a whole different ballgame.

Targeting big trout requires a different approach. Most resources suggest moderate-sized artificial lures, like imitation shrimp, for seatrout of any size. Yet, on numerous occasions, I’ve had big gators run down and attempt to swallow smaller trout while I’ve reeled them in.

As seatrout grow larger, their diets shift from small crustaceans to almost exclusively fish—the bigger the better. Live baits are my preference for targeting big fish. Mullet are a favorite, as are pinfish and croakers.

With big baits in the livewell, it’s time to find gator water. While it’s common to find schools of smaller trout in deeper channels adjacent to shallow flats, trophy trout spend more time around subtle depressions and breaks. If you’re catching large numbers of eaters, a change of areas is usually required to find gators.

Most of my fishing is done in super-skinny water in heavily pressured areas with tough fish. Fishing these small, shallow areas requires stealth and patience. For big trout, I move into an area as quietly as possible, put the Talon down, and wait.

As things settle down, it’s important to assess the area. Flooded oyster bars or current-swept mangroves are always worth a shot, but don’t overlook inconspicuous spots. If an area is relatively shallow, with one washout or depression that’s just a foot deeper than everything else, that spot can be key, especially at low tide.

Before the first cast is made, it’s important to select proper tackle.

Line and hook size should be greater than what’s considered routine.

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he Texas summer surf can spoil a newcomer in a heartbeat and is what the seasoned surf angler awaits each year.

Vacation days are set aside well in advance and excuses to come in late to work are ready and often recycled. Spoil a newcomer, addiction, you might ask, what is so special about the surf?

My fastest limit, 10 trout from the upper Texas coast, came on 12 consecutive casts. One was a dud, a lost fish, and 10 were solid trout, 19.5 to 24 inches. After I caught my limit, I continued to catch and release solid trout up to 5 ½ pounds. If that doesn’t spoil you, nothing will. Days like this are not uncommon when the conditions are right. The key to a successful morning in the surf is to remember you don’t plan a trip when you want, you go when the surf calls you.

Green incoming tides rising with the sun paired with a calm surf are my favored conditions. May and June routinely provide the best odds of landing the larger trout with Independence Day marking the arrival of masses of school-size fish.

I like to start my day before the sun’s rays illuminate the horizon. Standing on the sand, tossing topwaters or suspending baits parallel and as close to the sand as I can effectively work the lure.

I have caught many trout pushing 7 pounds along with large flounder and snook using this approach. It is amazing the size of fish that will feed in mere inches of breaking water.

As the blanket of darkness no longer conceals my presence, I will begin to gradually angle my casts towards the open Gulf. I will broaden my search area and structure type until I find where the fish are feeding, never overlooking the shallow water where I began my day. As the sun climbs, the trout will typically find comfort in the guts, chasing mullet, shrimp, shad and other baitfish. When this occurs, I still vary my cast from parallel to offshore, covering the deep guts and not overlooking the structure, which is the bar. As you would do while fishing the bay, don’t overlook the drop off. Casting along it can produce great catches.

White water and waves crashing is an often-overlooked hot spot. I seldom see surf fishermen casting into the whitewash, which can be a huge mistake. The turbulence disorients the baitfish which are easy meals for the thick-bodied, strong-swimming surf trout. I can remember one day in particular when most, if not all, of my trout were caught in the white water on top of the bar. A solid trout inhaled my slow-sinking lure as it tossed and turned in the froth. After that, I made repeated casts into the turbid water to end a successful day that up until that point had been quite slow.

Let me check the forecast, is it calm yet?

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aving been actively involved in the sunglasses industry for over 20 years and having sold over 25,000 pairs of sunglasses last year, I’m often asked, “What is the most important thing to consider when choosing a pair of sunglasses?” My answer is always, “the way they fit your face; comfort is the most important consideration.” I’m surprised at the number of people who choose their sunglasses based on brand. For anglers, and I am one, the next consideration can be offshore or inshore. The blue mirror lens models hold the best lens clarity for offshore while the green mirror/amber lenses produce the clearest lens visibility for the inshore angler.

I’ve been a big fan of Revo’s Blue Crawlers for my offshore sunglasses, and I switch to my ambers as my go-to inshore glasses.

Another big consideration for some is OSHA-approved eyewear. The correct approval body is ANSI approved. This ANSI validation of the sunglasses is the only accepted approval

by OSHA’s requirements, however, few brands actually possess the ANSI approval. If OSHA requirements are important for your choice of sunglasses, make sure you’re seeing the ANSI approval in writing and not simply relying on your representative’s assurance.

Finally, if you’re a prescription eyewear user, ensuring that the lens you receive when you request your prescription sunglasses from your favorite brand is not always apples to apples. Make sure that the exact same lens technology

is available for your prescription sunglasses as their nonprescription lenses. Otherwise, you could own an expensive pair of non-angler-friendly sunglasses. Believe me, it happens all the time.

There are many new entries in the sunglasses field these days.

Lens technology advancements continue to improve the quality of the angler’s viewpoint. If you’re in the market for a new pair of sunglasses, I recommend you do a little research before you make your purchase. Don’t just go buy XYZ sunglasses. Find the pair, regardless of brand, that’s best for you.

If Fowler’s can be of any assistance in helping you make that decision, please feel free to call or email us. We’re happy to help ensure that you’re completely satisfied with your next sunglasses purchase.

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SUNGLASSES NATIVE EYEWEAR SIGHTCASTER Native Eyewear’s Sightcaster is all about giving you the right tool for the pursuit of a good catch. Color enhanced, high-definition optics cut through glare on the water allowing you to see deeper and farther.

Native’s premium polarized lens technology also blocks up to four times more infrared and protects against harmful UV rays, helping your eyes stay fresh even after a long day on the water. The full-wrap, X-Large frame comes with nonslip grip material along the temples and nose pads to ensure all-day comfort with a lightweight and secure fit.

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Costa Del Mar was born on the water and is committed to protecting it. This summer, Costa will celebrate its tradition of conservation by launching its OCEARCH Limited Edition collection.

Costa is a primary supporter of OCEARCH, a research organization that generates critical scientific data on keystone marine species like great white and tiger sharks. Its vessel, the M/V OCEARCH, is an at-sea laboratory that puts science on the side of sharks to help protect our oceans worldwide.

One of the models in this OCEARCH Limited Edition collection is the Remora, a brand new frame that features all of Costa’s signature performance technologies. This particular pair features a brand new lens as well!

The Gray Silver Mirror lens is great for all-day wear. It is a polycarbonate lens with silver mirror on a gray base. The frame color is called Tiger Shark, and reflects the patterns of its namesake. Think of it as the popular tortoise shell in a more shark and ocean-inspired colorway! MSRP: $169. These glasses also come with a limited edition cleaning cloth and C-MASK. For more on OCEARCH, go to www.ocearch.org.

WWW.COSTADELMAR.COM RIO RAY SEASIDE Rio Ray Optics is the best new brand and most comfortable polarized sunglasses on the market.

Designed for the outdoor lifestyle, all Rio Ray sunglasses come with 100 percent optically correct polarized CR39 lenses, indestructible TR90 frames, optical spring hinges for maximum comfort and a hassle-free lifetime warranty.

All Rio Ray hard-coated polarized lenses are made of the highest quality CR39 and contain nine layers of protection with 100 percent UV protection.

A hydrophobic coating on the front repels water, sunscreen and dirt, which makes cleaning and maintenance easy. A vibrant flash mirror provides additional glare reduction and a superior scratch resistant coating prevents lens damage. The backside anti-reflective coating eliminates bounce-back glare.

Rio Ray MaxFlex frame technology makes these the most comfortable sunglasses on the market utilizing lightweight TR90 nylon, which maintains the frame shape and offers incredible durability.

Our frames were designed to be 100 percent prescription ready, and each pair comes with a full array of accessories including a hard and soft case, cleaning cloth and retainer.

There are over 40 styles to choose from, an average MSRP of only $149.99, and new styles are on the way for each season. Replacement lenses are available for only $24.99.

Rio Ray is always looking for high-quality retailers to partner with, and they have the best retailer friendly program in the sunglass industry. For dealer inquires, call 800-498-2104 or email jarrod@ riorayoptics.com.

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S RE VIEW2017 REVO GUIDE S AND GUIDE II Back in 1985, Revo became a global performance eyewear brand known as the leader in polarized lens technology. Their glasses were first created utilizing lens technology developed by NASA as solar protection for satellites. Today, Revo continues to build on its rich tradition of technology and innovation by offering the clearest and most advanced high-contrast polarized sunglass available.

With two new frames, the Guide II and the Guide S, Revo seeks to fill the needs of those seeking the best in performance sunglasses. Both frames feature HighContrast Polarized Serilium lenses that are lightweight, shatterproof and formulated of polycarbonate. Revo’s 8-base lens technology offers a more curved fit relative to your face, and elastometric nosepads provide a more secure fit for active wearers.

Sleek and modern, the Guide II adds an element of comfort to the all-activity, allcondition mentality. What carries on in the Guide lineage, however, is the confidence to exceed expectations and reach the objective.

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New for 2018, take hold and be bold with Flying Fisherman’s Moray sunglasses, a sporty frame equipped to take your fishing game to the next level. Built with durability and comfort in mind for anglers who work hard and play even harder, the medium fit, semi-rimless wrap-around frame provides generous lens coverage, helping shield the sun from all angles.

Non-slip, co-injected temples and adjustable, rubberized nosepiece give this frame solid performance and comfort for all-day wear.

The Flying Fisherman Polarized, AcuTint lens coloring system eliminates glare and enhances color contrast, without distorting natural colors. The enhanced visual sharpness and comfort adds to fishing productivity, and maximizes the outdoors experience for anglers and watersports enthusiasts who need to see below the water’s surface to spot fish and structure.

Morays are available in matte black frames with copper-red mirror, smoke, or smoke blue-mirror lenses, matte grey frames with smoke blue-mirror lenses, and matte white frames with smoke-blue mirror AcuTint lenses. MSRP is $24.95 - $29.95, and the Moray will be in stores this September.

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Skeleton Optics high-performance eyewear delivers superb craftsmanship, trend-forward innovation and advanced technology for outdoor enthusiasts everywhere. From the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, Skeleton Optics sunglasses are designed to empower ordinary people to do extraordinary things, inspiring them to live the “No Boundaries” lifestyle.

The new Skeleton Optics Renegade frames not only embrace that belief but take it to the next level. Adding to their already popular Original Collection, Skeleton Optics took the wraparound feature of the best-selling Scout model, and extended the frame width while working closely with the Zeiss Optical team to increase the lens height and create the all new Renegade sunglasses. Rugged and durable, yet sleek and stylish, Renegade sunglasses are perfect for a day on the water, on the trail, in the car, at the beach or in town.

Renegades feature polarized polycarbonate lenses by Zeiss with 100 percent UV protection and advanced TRI-PEL/RI-PEL coating to enhance colors and promote clear vision in any outdoor environment. Lenses also include a premium hard coating for scratch and impact resistance. Grilamid TR-90 frames were designed and manufactured in Italy for lasting durability, comfort and protection.

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Sunglasses are a necessity, but they’re also a burden. There is an ever-present possibility to lose or damage this expensive piece equipment. And you can forget about storing a conventional pair in a case in your pocket. They’re just too bulky.

That’s where Popticals steps in. This revolutionary new line of portable, pop-out sunglasses has a patented design that makes storage safe and convenient. Popticals’ FL2 Micro-Rail System allows the sunglasses to easily fold down to be stored in a small hardshell case. You won’t even notice this compact design in your pocket, and the unit can be clipped to anything with an included carabiner.

These glasses are high-performance, as well. The NYDEF Nylon Lenses manufactured by Carl Zeiss Vision are clearer and 16 percent lighter in weight than polycarbonate lenses. They offer complete UV protection, filtering out 100 percent of harmful UVA and UVB rays, while hydrophobic and oleophobic technology repels water, oil, sweat and dust. The Swiss Grilamid TR 90 frames provide long-lasting durability and resistance to extreme temperatures while remaining lightweight and comfortable for extended use.

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TARPON TIME: THE TWO HANDED STRIP

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t’s tarpon time! Many of you will be headed to tarpon waters this summer looking to hook one of ocean’s greatest gamefish on the fly. When you go, consider altering your fly retrieval technique from the standard one-hand strip to the two-handed stip. If you do, you might be surprised at how effective a two-hand strip can be at catching this great gamefish.

There are some saltwater fish that react to a fly that is stripped as fast as possible. Tuna, barracuda, roosterfish, amberjack and yellowtail are all good examples. These guys prefer a fly that moves like an Indianapolis racecar. If the fly isn’t imitating a fleeing baitfish, and suddenly stops, this group of gamers will turn and swim away.

The two-handed strip is also a wonderful technique for feeding a well-presented fly to a tarpon. But there is a difference. The twohanded strip is slightly different for tarpon than it is for offshore and nearshore species. Where offshore fish like tuna want the fly to burn through the water without pause, a tarpon often wants to see the fly move through the water at a slower pace while still keeping the fly’s continual motion.

An advantage of the two hand strip technique is the angler has total control of the fly’s pace through the water, making it possible for the angler to speed up or slow down the fly depending on the reaction of the tarpon to the fly. For example, if a tarpon reacts aggressively toward the fly, the angler might speed up the retrieve to initiate a strike. If the tarpon’s reaction is less aggressive, almost passive, the angler can manipulate the fly’s speed and try to turn on the tarpon’s “light switch” to instigate a strike.

Another advantage to using the two-hand retrieve is that the rod is placed under the arm rather than in the hands, making it almost impossible to lift the rod tip on a strike. This combats the urge of freshwater converts to set the hook by lifting the rod, a big no-no

in tarpon fishing.

With the rod under and arm, the only way to hook the fish is with a solid stripstrike.

For a successful twohanded strip do the following: • After the fly has been cast, place the rod under the arm (right or left).

• Point the rod tip down, keeping the tip on the water at all times.

• Begin the strip by pulling the fly line with your hand at the first stripping guide. Repeat this with the other hand.

• There should be a continual motion, changing hands with each strip.

• Vary the speed of the fly as you strip it through the water.

• Strip the fly all the way to the boat and repeat. If you feel a strike, give your line a solid strip-strike.

Use the two-handed strip, and I guarantee you will never go back to the one-hand strip again. Good luck on the tarpon grounds this season!

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he 24th Annual Sebastian Exchange Club Blue Water Open was held on June 3 with tournament headquarters at Capt. Hiram’s Resort in Sebastian. Despite the weather, it was a great success, with a fleet of 110 boats registered to fish. Fifty boats weighed fish and reported mixed results on the catch.

The dolphin bite was sketchy, with the first and second place fish weighing in at 26.35 and 21.85 pounds. They were caught aboard C Monster with Capt. Matt Lennon. The 21.85-pound dolphin landed Matt’s son, Matthew, the Junior Angler award and a new kayak. Only one wahoo was weighed in, a 35.05-pounder caught by George Kessel, of Grant, on the Shake Down. George reported the fish was caught around midday in about 150 feet of water. Several nice kingfish made it to the scales. Celtic Knots took first and second place in that category with a 40.5-pound and a 33.6-pound fish, caught by Steve Fritzson.

The real money was made by the fishing team aboard Restricted Species. These guys took first place grouper with a 45.05-pounder and second place with a 34.15-pounder. That big grouper, caught by Rob Reilly, won them the Big Fish Bonanza for a whopping $4,720, in addition to $1,000 for a new award this year, The Capt. William Charles Catchin’ and Cookin’ Memorial Award for the largest grouper caught in the tournament in memory of Capt. Bill. Interestingly, the 34.15-pound grouper was caught by Matson Scott, who fished with Capt. Bill many times. Matson said he sent up a prayer to Bill on the way out that morning to be with them that day. Looks like prayer may work!

First-place fish were worth $1,250 and second place $600. In addition to the four places on the main scoreboard, the Blue Water Open offers an additional 10 places on the Bonus Board worth $200 each, for fishermen who don’t make the main board. Other categories for the biggest fish caught were amberjack, cobia and new this year, tripletail. Cobia and Tripletail went unfilled, but Steve McElveen aboard Wreckreation landed a 39.25 amberjack worth $1,000.

Top Boat went to Fred Smith of the Lickety Split with an aggregate weight of 54.45 pounds for three fish in at least two main-board categories. The Top Boat payout was $2,000.

For complete tournament results, visit www.bluewateropen.com or like Sebastian Blue Water Open on Facebook. The Exchange Club of Sebastian has raised almost $500,000 over the years through the efforts put forth in the Blue Water Open. All proceeds go to worthy charities in the local community, with a special emphasis on preventing child abuse.

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ike and I decided it was time to get out of Dodge and take a road trip with our flats boat. The hustle and bustle of south Florida makes this kind of trip a stark contrast and welcome break. We ended up on Useppa, a small island between Pine Island and Cabbage Key on the southwest coast of Florida. These places are almost due west of Fort Myers near the mouth of Charlotte Harbor. The path that led us there was anything but ordinary. It was as if we were being beckoned.

My first contact with Useppa was from the Palm Beach Boat Show in March. I attended a media event at the Lake Pavilion on the Waterfront and discovered an oasis in the midst of all the craziness of the boat show.

It was a gorgeous photo of Useppa Island: paradise without a passport, with an inviting area to relax during the media event. There were some goodies there and information, which I grabbed. That photo just seemed to call me….

We had planned to visit the west coast in the coming weeks, a trip to Bokeelia, on the north end of Pine Island, to fish. Once we finalized

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the dates, I reached out to Brian and Mary—the Useppa People, who are realtors. They invited us to visit the Private Island Club, have lunch at the historic Collier Inn, and then took us on a golf cart tour of the island.

There are no roads here, only golf cart paths and walkways. My kind of island! It just seemed magical.

We were invited to come back for an overnight visit to experience the island. Brian and Mary made the arrangements for us to return and visit as their guests. So, we loaded the car, hooked up the boat and were off.

Pine Island Sound here we come!

We stopped in Matlacha and made a phone call to the Pineland Marina to check on bait. Good call. They were out of shrimp. We visited Carrie at the Barnhill Seafood Market in Matlacha who loaded us up with 200 monster shrimp. There was a stream behind the shop where we could get a few buckets of water to transport the shrimp safely to the marina. When you are on an island, you need to be proactive about supplies. Consider travel distances on the water to get what you need, and that options can be limited.

We launched the boat; I drove to park for the weekend and was greeted with a golf cart escort to the ramp. Headed out the cut from the marina, it feels as if you are soaring—having been set free from civilization and traffic. The waterways are expansive, and there are multiple mangrove cuts around every turn. There is so much water, so many cuts and areas to explore. The seagrass beds have expanded in the area 10 percent since the storms of 2008. The abundance of shoalgrass and turtlegrass has increased while the abundance of manatee grass has remained stable. In fact, the number of quadrants monitored in the area that are devoid of seagrass has decreased by 50 percent since 2005. This all makes for some clean water and great fishing.

Our first visit to Bokeelia, we limited on seatrout every day. On our trip to Useppa a month later, we encountered mostly snook and a monster red, caught by Mike on the next to last shrimp! And there are always tarpon.

Nadeen Welch is co-publisher of the Fort Myers edition of Coastal Angler Magazine.

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urns out that’s a difficult question to answer. Beaked whales feed at more than ½ mile down and are fairly skittish critters while near the surface, and weighing in at over a ton means catching, measuring and releasing is certainly not an option! Besides, perhaps a more important question is, who cares how big these whales are? Well, the U.S. Navy, that’s who.

Unfortunately for beaked whales, their deep-diving behavior means they share waters with Navy submarines, and when the Navy uses powerful sonar during training exercises, beaked whales are affected. Recent studies at the U.S. Navy’s Atlantic Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC), off Andros Island in The Bahamas indicate that Blainville’s beaked whales move away from sonar when they hear it. We believe this movement is displacing whales from their preferred feeding areas and are concerned this will compromise the animals’ body condition, which will impact their survival and reproduction success. And that’s why size matters.

With funding from the U.S. Office of Naval Research, the Bahamas Marine Mammal Research Organisation (BMMRO) and NOAA Fisheries, we conducted a feasibility study to test whether a drone could be used to measure length and girth of beaked whales. Using length, we can monitor growth as animals mature, while girth measurements tell us if an animal is pregnant, and if so, we can monitor if the calf survives. Based in Sandy Point, off the southwest coast of Abaco Island, BMMRO has been studying beaked whales for 25 years and knows these whales individually: how old they are, what sex they are, how many offspring they have had, etc. So, Abaco was the ideal place to try to get measurements of whales of known age and current reproductive state.

From our Novurania 680DL rigid-hulled inflatable, our science team deployed a small APH-22 marine hexacopter named “Goose” with a camera attached to obtain vertical images from 100 feet above beaked whales. During 30 flights over the 2-week study, “Goose” successfully photographed 10 different beaked whales. So, we now had images in hand of males and females, both young and old, as well as females with and without calves.

So… how big is a beaked whale? Blainville’s beaked whales ranged in length from the smallest calf measuring 9 feet to the largest adult at 14 feet. The girth of one female seen without a calf was notably larger than the other females, and we predicted she was pregnant. Three months after the study ended, we saw her again with a newborn calf!

With the success of our feasibility study, plans are to apply this approach to measure the length of beaked whales at AUTEC and monitor pregnancies to determine if displacement from sonar is causing nutritional stress and affecting reproductive success. It is the responsibility of the U.S. Navy and the science community to effectively monitor populations that are being impacted to affect change when needed. This study serves an example of that process in action.

The authors are research biologists with the Bahamas Marine Mammal Research Organisation. Follow the organization’s work at http://www.bahamaswhales.org and also on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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ome lessons gnaw at your memory for years.

A group of highly skilled fly fishermen stood on the bank of a well-known river visiting and talking about nothing important. Suddenly, within casting range, a trout kept rising and picking insects off the surface. One of the long time anglers began casting a dry fly upstream of the fish, letting it float past the target. Nothing happened. He made cast after cast, watching the trout ignore his offering and keep feeding on the real thing. I saw it happen. For no particular reason, the angler made a cast that was slightly (and I mean slightly) different from all the others. The trout rose and took the fly.

Witnessing that made me totally aware that success or failure when fishing an artificial lure could hinge on a factor almost too minor to notice. I’ve seen times when vibrating your wrist when retrieving a plug spelled a strike while simply cranking the reel proved futile. There have been times when a momentary pause in reeling a plug allowed it to rise slightly and that made the difference.

A tackle box full of different artificials is not the answer. You can get by with a half-dozen different baits once you learn how to fish them effectively. The basic rule states that if you are not getting strikes, vary the retrieve. Fish are cold-blooded and react slower and for shorter distances as the water temperature drops. When a fish is holding in one spot waiting for food to come to it, your cast and retrieve should follow that pattern. And keep in mind that your favorite lures on your home waters work just as well on the road.

I’ve caught the same species on the same lure a continent apart.

In your selection of lures, you want to be able to cover the water column from the bottom to the surface. That doesn’t mean each bait has to travel that distance, but rather that you should have some that work the bottom, others for the surface, and the rest in between at mid-depth. Fish see differently than we do. What looks good to you may not tempt a fish into striking. And, if there are standards and

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I can’t help but think about that trout on that memorable day. The untrained eye could not see that the fly floated just a hair differently when the fish sucked in the dry fly. Look for subtle differences in your retrieves and your catch ratio will become impressive.

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rop everything you’re doing right now. Go book a mahi trip out of the Upper Keys. Capt. Ross Early with Early Bird Fishing Charters said they are hammering dolphinfish right now, with piles of schoolie-sized mahi packed in around the weed lines and big gaffers and slammers showing up under the birds.

Summertime is all about mahi off the Atlantic side of Key Largo.

Really, the bite stretches all the way south through the Keys, but it’s hard to beat Largo down through Islamorada for ease of access. The Upper Keys are close enough for a day trip from the south Florida mainland.

Capt. Ross said the bite usually ramps up in May and lasts into September or October most years as the mahi migrate down through the Keys. A typical day begins early, with a quick stop inside the reef line to

catch bait with a net or sabiki before heading offshore with a tank full of cigar minnows and ballyhoo.

The destination is the weed line that drifts in the current offshore.

Capt. Ross said the run to the fishing grounds can be as short as 8 miles, and he fishes in anywhere from 300 to 1,000 feet of water. But the depth doesn’t really matter, because the fish are near the surface feeding on forage that congregates around the weeds.

He’ll start by searching, trolling with lures and dead ballyhoo to find the fish. When that first rod goes down is when the real action starts. It’s a scramble to clear all the trolling lines, because that first fish typically brings other fish with it. Everyone on deck grabs a 20-pound spinning outfit to pitch chunk bonita, squid, live baits, or whatever to dolphin that are schooled up and feeding.

“It can become organized chaos,” Ross said. “There are fish all around the boat, and you want to catch as many as you can, while you can, because it can turn off as fast as it turned on.”

Generally, this blast of action consists of 6- to 10-pound schoolie-sized mahi with fillets perfect for the dinner plate. The 40- and 50-pound slammers are a little more solitary.

“I’m always on the binoculars looking for birds,” Ross said. “I’m looking for frigates and yellow-billed terns. They’re our eye in the sky.”

Three or four birds in one spot hovering or picking at the weeds indicate there are fish below pushing bait to the surface. Capt. Ross will climb into the tower of his 45-foot Custom Carolina, Early Bird, to look for fish and steer the boat on collision course with them. Packs of three or four big mahi will be moving southwesterly this time of year, and the trick is to get out in front of them.

With Ross spotting fish and shouting direction to the anglers below, casting live baits accurately will usually lead to an incredible rush when a big slammer ties into a 20-pound spinning rig. It’s the kind of thing one must experience to understand. And who knows, you might encounter blackfin and skipjack tuna, sailfish, wahoo and the occasional marlin, as well.

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grew up fishing lakes well-known for large schools of bass spending the summer months offshore. When we get to mid-summer and the water temperature starts hitting 80 degrees, it is safe bet that fish are going to be on offshore structure like ledges, humps and drop offs.

I start looking on main-lake areas, on the lower half of the lake from the dam, where most good summer ledges are on the lakes I fish. Using the mapping on my Raymarine electronics, I search for places that top out from 12 to 20 feet and drop down to anywhere from 50 to 60 feet.

Bass will start heading out there when the water gets to 70 degrees and at 80 they will definitely be out there. They spawn with a water temperature of 62 to 64, so as the water warms they will be headed that way. When the water is 80 degrees, the fish in the lake that move (some stay shallow all year) will be out there.

The biggest deal is finding the depth range of the fish. When they first get out to offshore structure, they like 12 to 17 feet.

As they stay longer— it could be weeks or a month—they will then move deeper, from 18 to 25 feet, maybe even as deep as 30 feet. To find the depth range of the fish, I will graph and look for the bait and then the fish. Usually I can see the fish on my Raymarine units, but I will often fish around a big school of bait in case the bass are hiding right under the thick bait. If I don’t see bait or bass, I won’t make a cast. Electronics are too good these days to fish places just because there were fish there at one point in the past.

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he tarpon fishing has been red hot both for the fly fishermen and the bait guys in the Islamorada area, and I want to congratulate Capt. Perry Coleman & his angler Bart Beasley who released 16 Tarpon on fly to win the Don Hawley Tarpon Tournament. As I write this report the Ladies Tarpon Tournament is getting ready to kick off and next week the Gold Cup Tournament will be held in Islamorada so the town is full of tarpon fishermen. On board my boat we have been doing a mixture of fly and bait fishing and have had a few anglers catch their first tarpon which is always a special catch for me to be a part of, below is a photo of 12yr old Patrick releasing his first tarpon last year he lost one after a few jumps and it had been on his mind all year long his dad said.

I have not been out to the backcountry in a few weeks because of all the tarpon fishing we have been up to, but I have heard good reports of snook and redfish if you can handle the mosquitos that are sure to be buzzing about with all stormy weather. Here are a few photos from some recent trips… If you are looking to get out on the water send me an email and lets go catch a fish… gp www.gregpoland.com

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Executive Decision Wins $37,000 Skippers Dockside Restaurant, in Key Largo, hosted the 3rd Annual Skippers Dolphin Tournament with seventy one teams made up of 315 anglers competing for over $60,000 in cash plus amazing trophies from King Sailfish Mounts. Anglers were allowed to weigh two fish on Saturday and two on Sunday but it would be the combined weight of three fish that would determine the winners.

The Executive Decision, of Ocala, FL, weighed-in 63.3 pounds of dolphin, the combined weight of their largest 3 fish, a 33.4 pounder plus a 16.5 and 13.4 to win $27,410.00! Executive Decision also weighed in Largest Fish Day Two at 33.4 pounder to win $8272.50. Jill Paglia caught the 33.4 pounder to win the Largest Fish for Lady Angler to win $2000.

Second Place team was Miss Shell of Tavernier catching a combined weight of 52.7 pounds to win $15,557.50 plus 3rd Largest Fish Day One weighing 20.6 pounds to win $500. The team weighed in fish at 20.6, 18.2 and 13.9.

Third Place team was All-In of Miami with a 20.5, 20.0, and 11.9 for a total of 52.4 pounds and $8705.00.

Fourth Place team was Contagious, Captained by Brian Cone, with team of anglers from Goulds, FL with a 20.5, 18.0 and 9.1 totaling 47.6 pounds wining $3,852.50.

Fifth Place team was Peace Keeper II of Miami Lakes, FL catching 17.6, 16.2 and 12.4 pounds totaling 47.6 to win $1,000.00.

Sixth Place team was Fantastic II Captained by Justin Hopper with anglers from Stuart, FL catching 23.5, 12.9, 9.5 points totaling 45.9 to winning $500.00 plus 2nd Largest Fish Lady Angler to win $1000.00 with the 23.5 pound dolphin.

Alex Winford of Birmingham, AL won Largest Fish Day One paying $8,415.00 fishing on Twice Bitten with 29.2 pounds. Justin Hann of Key Largo, FL caught 21.7 pounder to win $5110.00 for 2nd Largest Fish Day One. High Standards angler Creston Fendley of Little Rock, AK won Second Largest Fish Day Two at 23.8 pounds to win $5015.00.

First Place Junior Angler was Wyatt Clark of Key Largo, FL with a 23.5 pound dolphin to win $500 fishing on Hang Loose. 2nd Place Junior Angler was Reece Gunther of Fort Lauderdale with a 17.5 pound fish fishing on Blue Heaven Captained by Skye Stanely. 3rd Place Junior Angler was Heather Manfre of Key Largo catching a 12.8 pound dolphin on Joint Custody to win $100. Largest Fish Senior Anglers was caught

by John Duffy of Key Largo, FL weighing 7.3 pounds to win $1000 on the Rockem N Reelm. Largest Tuna was caught by Chris Molinaro of Islamorada weighing in at 32.0 pounds on the Mae Day to win $750.00.

Largest Wahoo weighed in at 17.3 pounds was caught by Per Pedersen of Fort Lauderdale on Crazy Fish to win $750. Joseph Siviglia, of Pompano Beach, FL, caught the Largest Kingfish of 6.5 pounds to win $750 fishing on Highly Unlikely.

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ummertime is here in Islamorada. And that means warmer days, rising water temperature, less wind which makes for beautiful days out on the ocean. And most all offshore fisherman have one species at the top of their target list , the most popular pelagic gamefish: the mahi mahi, a fish so nice, they named it twice!

The mahi, dorado, or dolphin-fish, whatever you wish to call them.

They are the backbone of recreational fishing here in the Florida Keys.

With their vibrant colors of blue, green and yellow darting through the water, they will change colors from a green-yellow to neon blue with black vertical stripes when they are excited in feeding mode. It is a sight you’ll have engraved in your memory forever when you see a lit up bull head come waking with his head 3 inches out of the water, his peck fins straight out horizontal, his dorsal standing straight up from tail to atop his blunt head and the throwing a wake like a speed boat; he changes ten colors from yellow to green to the most amazing electric neon blue. Then you watch him inhale your ballyhoo the mate just cast perfectly underneath a diving frigate bird, pulling off fighter jet maneuvers to try and get a flying fish the dolphin are chasing into the air. The angler comes tight on the rod and the slammer bull head starts dumping drag and jumping all about…it’s dolphin season boys and girls, come and get ‘cha some.

Dolphin roam the open ocean on a continuous hunt for food. They are relentlessly on the move and are caught all around the world, but one of the largest bodies of mahi can be found here off the Florida Straits from late May – August. They can be caught at any depths, from the deep edge of the reef 100’, all the way across to the Bahamas. We start looking hard when we find where the Gulf Stream current starts, typically somewhere between 300’ – 800’. A change in water color or sargasm weed that is lining up parallel, not inshore/offshore, and taller waves are good indicators of where the current begins. Upon hitting the current, we pull back the speed and put out some trolling gear. When we are fishing for dolphin, a typical spread is a pair of flat lines staggered with a blue/white feather on one flat and another slightly larger lure on the other flat line. I like to put a naked, or chugger headed ballyhoo a good distance back on one outrigger and leave the other side of the boat open for sight casting.

Once a school of dolphin is located, you can usually get them to stay behind the boat by offering some squid, chunks of bonita, pilchards or any live bait. As we come upon a school, either by getting a strike on the troll or sight casting and connecting with a spotted swimmer from the tower, once one is hooked, standard procedure is to clear the flat lines. Often the school will follow the flats right up behind the boat. Get the trolling gear up and out of the way and switch over to 20 lb. spinning 4 FLORIDA KEYS

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outfits bimini twisting and splicing the double line to a 50/60 lb leader with a 5/0 or 6/0 mustad 7766 hook tipped with a squid, ballyhoo, chunk or live bait. All can be purchased from my favorite local outfitter, Tackle Center of Islamorada. We flip out the spinner to a fish behind the boat, you want to have the bail open, let the fish eat, swim off with your bait for 2 or 3 seconds, then shut your bail, reel fast and there you go! Mahi madness!!

By leaving one fish hooked in the water, the others in the school will stay nearby. Take your shot at one fish at a time and re-bait and hook another one, repeat… schoolie wars.

A school that is good and fired up will eat most any bait offered.

Our typical bait cooler for a day of mahi fishing is 10-15 rigged ballyhoo (some skirted, some naked), 20 or so smaller ballyhoos for casting, a box of squid and a bag of chunks (cubed bonita or skipjack). Ideally, I like to have a bait well with plenty of live offerings for the stubborn fish.

Schooling dolphin typically run in smaller sizes with your smaller shakers being around a pound to your nice migrating, heavy lifters in the 8-12 pound range. The bigger dolphin tend to be loners or swimming in pairs or small packs. These larger ones, slammers, are 20-50 pounds.

A 50 pound dolphin is quite a ride! You hear of 50 pounders and a few that go up to 60 pounds and every once in a while someone will catch a dolphin over 70 pounds, very rare.

Locating schools of dolphins requires being good at reading birds and how they act. Your best dolphin fisherman are experts in offshore bird activity. They can tell you what species of bird and what kind of fish they are tracking. That is an art all in itself. We are looking for birds hovering, usually tracking SouthWest along some sargasma weed.

June means great weather and good fishing but also a lot of boats out there. Common courtesy goes along way on the water and it is just not the right thing to do to come up on a boat obviously stopped catching fish out of a school and start trying to catch the same fish. Unless you know the other captain or have permission this is a not a good way to make friends. It’s a big ocean out there and there will be other opportunities. I hope everyone has a safe and successful mahi fishing trips this summer, we’ll see you out there.

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After a couple of months of dolphin and tarpon fishing, our focus returns to the reef during July.

The dolphin fishing was excellent in June, and it should roll into July. However, we generally find many more sublegal fish this month than other times of the year. Hence, the reason to concentrate on the reef and wreck fishing.

Love is in the water, as the yellowtail, mangrove and mutton snapper are all in their spawning mode for the next month or two. This causes them to be aggressive eaters.

The most consistent action tends to be the 30- to 60-foot depths plus the deeper wrecks. The yellowtails are in the 15- to 18-inch class, and the mangroves weigh anywhere from two pounds all the way up to eight to ten pounds.

For the yellowtails and mangroves, large amounts of chum are required. This time of year, we begin using 25-pound blocks in chum nets with large holes, allowing large amounts of chum to escape, which holds their interest. Pair the frozen chum with a slop mixture of YellowtailUp and oats Gorgeous or chum balls made from ChumDrop, black and you should have non-stop action. grouper for For the yellowtails, we drift small the Knightly cut baits, such as ballyhoo, silvergroup, who sides or shrimp, back in the slick with fished with 15-pound fluoro leaders and small, light wire hooks.

SeaSquared The mangroves tend to hug the Charters. bottom more than the yellowtails.

So, it’s imperative your baits are on or near the bottom to get bit by the largest mangs.

Chum balls with large chunks of ballyhoo or pinfish will get even the most finicky of the mangroves and muttons to eat. We also use live pinfish or ballyhoo fished on a jighead when the fish are more aggressive.

This technique may also result in grouper hookups, so be prepared

This junior angler fished with SeaSquared Charters and Capt. Joel Warrick and caught this big almaco jack while the rest of her family caught dolphin.

Capt. Alex Bell, of SeaSquared Charters, caught this 34.5-pound bull dolphin while fun fishing with some of the SeaSquared crew. to use slightly heavier tackle than you would for yellowtails, specifically 15-pound main line and 20-pound fluorocarbon leaders.

If you decide to head offshore for dolphin and tuna, your best bet is to leave the dock early in the day as the bite quite often shuts down by mid- to late-morning.

Better than watching sharks on TV. Shallow water shark fishing around the bayside flats and grass banks has been excellent for both lemons and blacktips, with the occasional bull and tiger also making an appearance.

Most of the blacktip sharks average four to five feet in length and are great sport on light tackle. The lemon sharks are in the four- to seven-foot range and put up quite a fight when matched with 20-pound spinning gear. Catch-and-release shark fishing in waters as shallow as four to five feet, with sharks swarming around the boat, makes for awesome summer fun fishing.

Lobster season is upon us.

Midday should be reserved for exploring the reef with your snorkel and fins, lobstering during mini season, discovering the area watering holes or napping.

The two-day Sport Lobster Season (known locally as lobster mini season) is July 27 and 28 this year. We encourage all to join us for great fun with tasty rewards.

At the same time, we ask you to exercise caution, as our waters will be congested with boats and snorkelers, and please adhere to the regulations.

Capt. Chris Johnson specializes in offshore, reef/wreck, gulf/bay, sailfish, shark and tarpon fishing with SeaSquared Charters, docked at Faro Blanco Resort and Yacht Club in Marathon.

305-743-5305, http://SeaSquaredCharters.com.

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June started out this year just a little rough with about a week of straight rain and over cast. Of course my trips during this timeframe were all based on sight fishing on the flats. Let’s just say it was difficult.

I finally threw in the towel and started live bait fishing in the channels which produced a surprisingly good tarpon bite even though they were not rolling on the surface. Eventually the sun came out and the Florida Keys started looking like the Florida Keys should look in June. With that came seeing fish. Seeing is believing.

There was a great bite on the offshore side. Rain and overcast did not have any effect on the Dolphin. It was a fantastic month for big dolphin.

A lot of fish in the 10-30lb range, with multiple fish over 50lbs caught throughout the Keys. The great thing was the fish were not out too far.

One of my trips produced a 30lb fish in just 250ft of water. A fish over 50 was caught in 500. I guess the moral of the story is you don’t always have to run 3 hours to catch big fish. Outside of the dolphin there was some very nice wahoo catches. This time of year if you find one wahoo, usually there are a few others nearby so don’t be afraid to make multiple passes in an area.

The craziness of spring has passed, time to slow down and enjoy the fruits of summer. Of course I am talking about permit. Early spring is great, but every die hard permit fisherman knows the deal. The deal is July.

Permit spawn on the reefs and wrecks offshore mainly during May and June and can tend to be scarce on the flats. By the time July rolls around, the spawn is mostly over and the big fish return to the flats for the only reason these fish come to the flats, to feed. Best time of year to get a big fish to eat a fly. Low tides early in the morning and late in the afternoon will provide best tailing action.

Offshore can be a bit tricky this time of year. Early morning starts are defiantly important.

Mid day lulls during the hot summer can slow fishing down a bit. Snapper fishing is usually the main target. Yellowtail, mangrove and mutton snapper will be schooled up all summer. If its real calm and hot, try fishing late evening into the dark. Dolphin fishing can be real hit or miss with many many small schoolie size fish. In between all the small fish, the big fish still lurk, mainly feeding on the small dolphin.

This is a favorite meal for marlin, so always have that in mind. If you did want to target marlin specifically, this is a great time of year to do it. Be careful in the sun and drink lots of water! For more information, you can contact me at (305) 394-2177 Patience and persistence Captain Nate Wheeler Waypoint Fishing Charters (305) 394-2177 www.waypointfishing.net captnatewheeler@aol.com

FLORIDA KEYS BRIDGES OPEN TO FISHING:

• Channel 2 (MM 73) • Channel 5 (south end, MM 71) • Long Key (MM 63-65) • Tom’s Harbor Cut (MM 61.2) • Tom’s Harbor Channel (access from north end only, MM 60.6) • Seven Mile Bridge (south end only, MM 40) • Spanish Harbor (MM 34) • South Pine Channel Historic Bridge (MM 30) • Kemp Channel (MM 23) • Bow Channel (MM 20) • Park Channel (MM 18.5) • Shark Channel (MM 11)

FLORIDA KEYS BRIDGES CLOSED TO FISHING: • Little Duck Key-Missouri Historic Bridge, (MM 39.5) • Missouri-Ohio Historic Bridge (MM 39) • Ohio-Bahia Honda Historic Bridge (MM 38.5) • Lower Sugarloaf Channel (MM 15.8)

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*Possession limits are enforced on and off the water **Night diving is prohibited in Monroe County (only during the sport season) ***Harvest of lobster is prohibited in John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park during the sport season and in Everglades National Park, Dry Tortugas National Park, no-take areas in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and in the Biscayne Bay/Card Sound Lobster Sanctuary during both the 2-day sport season and regular season. ***Harvest of lobster is prohibited in John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park during the sport season and in Everglades National Park, Dry Tortugas National Park, no-take areas in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and in the Biscayne Bay/Card Sound Lobster Sanctuary during both the 2-day sport season and regular season.

Other Prohibitions

• Unless exempt, a recreational saltwater fishing license and a lobster permit are required to harvest spiny lobster • Lobster must be landed in whole condition. Separating the tail from the body is prohibited in state waters.

• The harvest or possession of eggbearing spiny lobster, or any other eggbearing species of lobster belonging to the families Palinuridae (spiny lobsters), Scyllaridae (slipper lobsters) or Synaxidae (furry lobsters) is prohibited • No person shall harvest or attempt to harvest spiny lobster using any device which will or could puncture, penetrate or crush the exoskeleton (shell) or the flesh of the lobster • Recreational trapping prohibited • Regardless of what species you are fishing for, bag limits are only for properly licensed individuals and those people exempt from license requirements who are actively harvesting. People harvesting may not exceed their individual bag limit and take someone else’s bag limit. That is, people (including children) who are not actively harvesting or are not properly licensed (if a license is required) may NOT be counted for purposes of bag limits.

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Florida Recreational Saltwater Fishing Regulations

Issued: January 2017 New regulations are highlighted in red Regulations apply to state waters of the Gulf and Atlantic (please visit: MyFWC.com/Fishing/Saltwater/Recreational for the most current regulations) All art: © Diane Rome Peebles, except snowy grouper (Duane Raver)

Reef Fish Snapper General Snapper Regulations: • Within state waters of the Atlantic and Gulf, the snapper aggregate bag limit is 10 fish per harvester unless the species rule specifies that it is not included in the aggregate. This means that a harvester can retain a total of 10 snappers in any combination of species.

Exceptions are noted below.

• If no season information is included, the species is open year-round.

All Other Snapper   ●

Snapper, Cubera   ● Snapper, Red Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic and Gulf - 12" (see remarks) Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic and Gulf - 10 per harvester Remarks • May possess no more than 2 over 30" per harvester or vessel per day, whichever is less. 30" or larger not included within the snapper aggregate bag limit.

Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic and Gulf - 12"

  ● Snapper, Vermilion   ●

Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic - 20" • Gulf - 16"

Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic - 12" • Gulf - 10"

Season: • Atlantic - Open year-round • Gulf - Check MyFWC.com for 2017 season

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic - 5 per harvester • Gulf - 10 per harvester

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic and Gulf - 2 per harvester

Snapper, Lane

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Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic and Gulf - 8"

Remarks • Not included within the snapper aggregate bag limit.

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic - 10 per harvester • Gulf - 100 pounds (see remarks) Remarks • Gulf not included within the snapper aggregate bag limit.

Remarks • Gulf - Zero daily bag and possession limit for captain and crew on for-hire vessels.

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic and Gulf - 10 per harvester Remarks • Includes: Blackfin, Dog, Mahogany, Queen, Silk and Yellowtail

Snapper, Gray (Mangrove)

Snapper,

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Snapper, Black & Wenchman

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Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic and Gulf - 10"

Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic and Gulf - 18"

Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic and Gulf - 10"

Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic and Gulf - None

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic and Gulf - 5 per harvester

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic and Gulf - 5 per harvester

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic and Gulf - 10 per harvester

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic and Gulf - 10 per harvester

Grouper, Black

Grouper, Snowy

Grouper, Red

Grouper Atlantic Grouper General Regulations: • Atlantic grouper regulations apply to all state waters of the Atlantic and all state waters off Monroe County (Gulf and Atlantic sides).

• Atlantic grouper aggregate bag limit is 3 fish, which means that no harvester shall retain more than 3 Atlantic groupers in any combination of species.

Gulf Grouper General Regulations: • Gulf grouper regulations apply to all state waters of the Gulf except off Monroe County (where Atlantic rules apply).

• Gulf grouper aggregate bag limit is 4 fish which means that no harvester can retain more than 4 Gulf grouper in any combination of species.

• Zero bag limit for captain and crew of for-hire vessels applies to gag, black, and red grouper only.

Season Information: • If no season information is provided, the species is open year-round.

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Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic - 24" • Gulf - 24" Season: • Atlantic - Closed Jan. 1–April 30 • Gulf - Open year-round

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Grouper, Warsaw

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Minimum Size Limit: • Atlantic and Gulf - None

Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic and Gulf - 20"

Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic and Gulf - None

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic - 1 per harvester • Gulf - 4 per harvester

Season: • Atlantic - Closed Jan. 1–April 30 • Gulf - Open year-round

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic and Gulf - 1 per vessel per day of each species

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic - 3 per harvester • Gulf - 2 per Harvester

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic - 1 per harvester. Only 1 fish can be gag or black • Gulf - 4 per harvester

Grouper, Yellowfin

Grouper, Scamp   ●

Gag Grouper

Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic - 20" • Gulf - 16"

Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic - 24" • Gulf - 24"

Other Grouper includes: • Tiger, Rock Hind, Red Hind, Coney and Graysby

Season: • Atlantic - Closed Jan. 1–April 30 • Gulf - Open year-round

Seasons: • Atlantic - Closed: Jan. 1–April 30 • Gulf - State waters off Franklin, Wakulla, Jefferson and Taylor counties: Open April 1–June 30 • Gulf - State waters off all other counties: Open June 1–Dec. 31

Minimum Size Limit: • Atlantic and Gulf - None

Season: • Atlantic - Closed Jan. 1–April 30 • Gulf - Open year-round

Season: • Atlantic - Closed Jan. 1–April 30 • Gulf - Open year-round

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic - 3 per harvester • Gulf - 4 per harvester

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic - 3 per harvester • Gulf - 4 per harvester

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Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic - 1 per harvester. Only 1 fish can be gag or black • Gulf - 2 per harvester

Other Grouper

 ● & Yellowmouth

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Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic and Gulf - 20"

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic - 3 per harvester • Gulf - 4 per harvester

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Reef Fish

Other Reef Fish (If no season information is provided, the species is open year-round)

Amberjack, Greater

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Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic - 28" fork length • Gulf - 34" fork length Season: • Atlantic - Open year-round • Gulf - Closed June 1–July 31 Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic and Gulf - 1 per harvester

Red Porgy

Great Barracuda

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Minimum Size Limits: • Not less than 15" or more than 36"

Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic and Gulf - 12" fork length

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • 2 per person or 6 per vessel, per day, in state waters off Collier, Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Martin counties.

• May possess one over 36" per vessel.

• Unregulated in all other areas.

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic and Gulf - 5 per harvester • Changes in spring possible — visit MyFWC.com for updates

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Triggerfish (Gray)

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Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic – 12" fork length • Gulf - 14" fork length Season: • Atlantic - Open year-round • Gulf - Closed Jan. 1 2017 - Dec. 31 2017 • Changes possible - Visit MyFWC.com for updates Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic - 10 per harvester

Amberjack, Lesser & Banded Rudderfish

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Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic - 14" • Gulf - None

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic - 1 per harvester • Gulf - 4 per harvester

Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic and Gulf - Cannot be less than 14" or greater than 22" fork length

Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic - 13" • Gulf - 10"

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic - 3 per harvester • Gulf - 100 pounds

Remarks • Golden tilefish included within Atlantic and Gulf Grouper aggregate bag limits

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic and Gulf - 5 per person aggregate of the two species

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • Atlantic - 7 per harvester • Gulf - 100 pounds per harvester

Mackerel, King

Mackerel, Spanish

Pelagics

Billfish

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Minimum Size Limits: • Sailfish 63"; • Blue Marlin 99"; • White Marlin 66"; • Roundscale Spearfish 66"

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Minimum Size Limits: • 47" lower jaw fork length with head attached or 25" cleithrum to keel length if head removed

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • 1 per harvester per day aggregate bag limit

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • 1 per harvester per day, not to exceed a maximum of 4 per recreational (not for-hire) vessel or 15 per for-hire vessel per day

Remarks • Measured tip of lower jaw to fork. All landed fish must be reported to NOAA within 24 hours 800-894-5528 or hmspermits.noaa.gov.

• HMS permit required in federal waters.

Remarks • All landed fish must be reported to NOAA within 24 hours 800-894-5528. HMS permit required in federal waters. Zero daily bag and possession limit for captain and crew of for-hire vessels.

Wahoo

Cobia (Ling)

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Minimum Size Limits: • 24" fork length

Minimum Size Limits: • 12" fork length

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • 2 per harvester per day

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • 15 per harvester per day

Remarks • Bag limit reduced to 1 in some state waters if federal waters are closed to recreational harvest.

Tripletail

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Minimum Size Limits: • None

Minimum Size Limits: • 33" fork length

Minimum Size Limits: • 15"

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • 2 per harvester per day

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • 1 per harvester per day, not to exceed 6 per vessel per day

Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • 2 per harvester per day

Scan this code with your mobile device to view the regulations online.

Remarks • Hook and line only. No snatch hooks.

Buy your license online at GoOutdoorsFlorida.com or toll free at: 1-888-347-4356

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Dolphinfish

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Minimum Size Limits: • Atlantic - 20" fork length • Gulf - None Daily Recreational Bag Limit: • 10 per harvester per day, not to exceed 60 per vessel per day. Vessel limit does not apply to for-hire vessels.

Report fish and wildlife law violations toll free at: 1-888-404-3922

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Lionfish Lionfish are a huge problem in the Florida Keys and it is growing. The invasive Lionfish have taken over our reefs and wrecks in a relatively short time and show no signs of stopping. The popular dive sites frequented by dive masters usually have less present because we tend to remove them more frequently.

Personally I enjoy capturing and cooking Lionfish and find them one of my favorite species to eat.

I routinely capture Lionfish with a short pole spear all along the reef edge while diving or spearfishing. I carry a pair of sea snips and will trim the spines off of the fish because they are venomous and can hurt if you get poked. Trust me it hurts! Once the spines are removed you can handle the fish like any other. Another way I handle the Lionfish is to use a container like the Lionfish tamer. This device is a PVC tube with an entrance on one side. You take the pole spear with the lionfish on the end and push it into the pipe. Once in, just remove the pole spear and the fish is contained. You don’t have to remove the spines in the water saving valuable time underwater.

The Lionfish Challenge is back. This is an incentive program created by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC) to get anglers and divers to remove these invasive creatures. Go to www.

MyFWC.com/Lionfish and register to participate in the program. If you collect and document 25 Lionfish before Sportsman Weekend (Mini-Season) July 26-27, the harvester will be eligible to keep an extra lobster during the 2 day mini-season. You must bring the tails and submission form to a checkpoint such as Finz Dive Center in Key West. The challenge runs through Sept 4th 2017 and the harvester with the most lionfish will be crowned King or Queen for the year.

Help us control the lionfish population and get a great meal in the process. Stop by Finz and pick up your lionfish essentials, drop off your submissions, and help the environment at the same time.

Robert Trosset FINZ Dive Center 5130 Overseas Hiwy,Key West • 305-395-0880 www.Finzdivecenter.com • Info@Finzdivecenter.com

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ey West this year got a late start to the summer fishery. The cold weather and windy conditions slowed the warming of the water. That has finally changed and the summer fish have shown up, whether you’re offshore or in the back they are here and hungry.

July fishing this year is going to look like June. The dolphin will be in the 600-800 foot depth, as the water warms the dolphin will push further and further offshore. July will be much like June weather with stormy squalls and frequent windy days keeping the waters cool and the dolphin biting. The weed lines will begin to line up (east to west) and the debris will hold large schools of fish. Along with the dolphin on the debris the wahoo will lurk down deep in the shadows of the debris. The rapala magnum plugs work wonders for searching the wahoos out. In the early morning we will see the skipjack tuna and blackfin mixed in schools in 500-700 feet. A small artificial way back in the pattern works best to capture the boat shy tuna.

On the reef line the mangrove snapper will be spawning on the reef on the full and new moons. It is great action on the reef. The yellow tail will still be there but when the east bound current pushes in make sure you fish a little deeper than normal to catch the big flags. Mutton snapper will be all but done spawning but they will settle in the 120-150 foot depth to feed.

In the back country the tarpon will be settling in for feeding and more and more migrations will fill the harbor and back country. On the really hot days look for the tarpon to slide off the flats and settle into the channels.

Enjoy the beginning of Summer Fishing in Key West Take the family out for some much needed time on the water.

Capt Mike Weinhofer Compass Rose Charters 305-395-3474 www.KeyWestFloridaFishing.com

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with Capt. Nick White marlin caught my Griffin on Borricino and mate Tom Marathon ing fish rt Nor’Easter spo

Our good frien ds the Cosme’s family with a ni ce black groupe r

Juliana Clawson spent a day on the water with Captain Ryan O’Sullivan 15 miles out in the backcountry

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Al Veazie, of Cudjo Key Florida, with a nice dolphin

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First Confirmed Snakehead Caught in

Mississippi Lake

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he scourge is spreading. In early June, a bowfisherman arrowed Mississippi’s first confirmed northern snakehead from an oxbow lake of the Mississippi River.

The fish was caught from Lake Whittington in west-central Mississippi’s Bolivar County near the Arkansas border. Bow fishermen Brad Baugh and Bubba Steadman, of Cleveland, Miss., shot the fish on June 5. They kept the fish, photographed it, and immediately contacted the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks (MDWFP).

“Snakeheads have been present in the White River Basin in Arkansas since 2008 and have been steadily expanding their range towards the Mississippi River,” said MDWFP Delta fisheries biologist Nathan Aycock. “The Mississippi River provides these fish with access to connected oxbows like Lake Whittington as well as the Yazoo and Big Black Rivers.”

Northern snakeheads are native to China, Russia and Korea. Established populations have been found in Arkansas, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, where their impacts to native fish populations remain unknown. Northern snakeheads are typically found in shallow, backwater areas and can breathe air, which allows them to survive for extended periods of time out of the water.

Northern snakeheads appear similar to the Southeast’s native Bowfin, also known as grinnel or mud bass. MDWFP and other state wildlife agencies encourage anyone who thinks they have caught a snakehead to keep the fish, photograph it, and contact wildlife officials.

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n appropriate Florida fish for July, when we celebrate our independence on the fourth, is the flagfish, also called the American flagfish, a small fish that is usually found only in Florida. It takes its name from the male fish’s resemblance to the American flag: a large black or blue dot and red-and-white stripes on its body that resemble a flag.

The Latin name (“Jordanella floridae”) honors an important zoologist, C. Basil Jordan, who ran a fish research program for the U.S. Fish Commission and for the Smithsonian Institution in the late 1880s.

He was also the U.S. Commissioner for Fish and Fisheries, as well as the author of many publications and scientific reports.

The fish, which fish stores sell for aquaria, takes its other common name, “pupfish,” from the seemingly playful mating habits of the male fish, habits that look like puppies at play. The fish were originally found in Florida drainage ponds, as well as the Ochlocknee and St. Johns Rivers. They seem to prefer slow-moving water with a lot of vegetation and are usually found in swamps and marshes. A sharp-eyed observer may see them even in brackish waters, for example in estuaries where river water mixes with

seawater.

The small fish, which may grow to only 2 1/2 inches in length, are actually in the Guinness Book of World Records as the fish with the fewest eggs. The fish usually produce only about twenty eggs over a span of several days, although the female fish have been known to lay many more eggs in aquaria, where the fish are very productive at eating algae in the aquaria.

In the wild, flagfish feed on crustaceans, insects, plants and worms. The males do their part in taking care of the eggs, which the female has laid over algal-covered rocks. The eggs will adhere to the rocks because of a sticky thread that connects the eggs to the rocks. The male adults will guard the newly laid eggs and fan them with their fins in order to keep them clean and aerated. The life span of the fish is two to three

USA Fields First-Ever Ladies’ Team For Match Fishing World Championships

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atch fishing… chances are it’s a style of competitive fishing you’ve never heard of. While match fishing is hugely popular throughout Europe, its seemingly bizarre tactics leave even experienced American anglers scratching their heads. But don’t confuse something unfamiliar with a sport that’s simple or unsophisticated. To the contrary, a quick search of the Internet will reveal a world of highly evolved angling complexity.

Match fishing competitions find participants confined to small areas, or pegs, along a bank, with the goal of catching the heaviest combined weight of fish during a prescribed time period. Equipment and tactics vary depending on the venue and available species. Top competitors catch six fish or more per minute over a three-hour period—all the while managing

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years, but – with care – they can live for five years.

This column usually deals with much larger fish, the kinds that can be found in our oceans and rivers, but it seemed appropriate on this Independence Day to honor the American flagfish.

Kevin McCarthy, the award-winning author of “South Florida Waterways” (2013 - available at amazon.com for $7), can be reached at ceyhankevin@gmail.com.

For more on Kevin McCarthy, go to

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delicate tackle, adjusting presentations and continually metering precise quantities of ground bait into the water to attract fish and keep them feeding. Competitors often employ tiny size 16-20 hooks to target fish less than four-inches long, but must be ready to battle larger fish like carp on the same gear.

Six accomplished female anglers will represent the United States at the 24th Annual Ladies’ Match Fishing World Championships in Szolnok, Hungary on Aug. 26 and 27. The first-ever ladies team was assembled by the United States Angling Confederation.

The team consists of Barb Carey, Hannah Stonehouse Hudson and Kristen Monroe, all of Wisconsin, Elise De Villiers and Penelope Smit, of Florida, and Shelly Holland, of Minnesota. De Villiers and Smit are veteran match anglers, while Carey, Holland, Hudson and Monroe will be competing for the first time in Hungary.

“We don’t expect miracles,” said Team Coach, Attila Agh, a lifelong match angler from Hungary who moved to the United States 17 years ago and has since become a U.S. citizen. “Our competition has been fishing in this way for their entire lives. But I am very encouraged by the spirit our ladies are showing, their angling ability and their competitive nature.

They are learning the necessary skills that are new to them and progressing quickly.”

Agh warned the competition not to count the Americans out, and the team agrees.

De Villiers, who started her match-fishing career in the U.S. nearly 20 years ago, coached and fished on South Africa’s ladies team in the FIPSed World Championships in 2012 and 2013. “I’m very excited that the U.S.A. will have a team competing in Hungary this summer,” she said. “I’m enjoying getting to know these other wonderful ladies and helping to prepare them however I can. I’m extremely proud to be representing Team USA.” In addition to maintaining a rigorous training schedule, the USA Ladies’ Match Fishing Team is raising money to offset significant costs leading up to the competition. Individuals and businesses interested in helping financially are invited to make tax-deductible donations of any amount at www.gofundme.com/team-usa-ladies-match-fishing.

Visit www.teamusafishing.org for more information, or join the conversation on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TeamUSALadiesMatchFishing/.

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The white seashells stick out against the green sea grass.

If you have never been scalloping before, don’t worry about 5. Grab them with your hand “Learning How To Scallop.” Did they don’t bite. you have to learn how to Easter Egg Hunt?

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But why? Why take old bridge rubble and sink it offshore? To start, the town of Palm Beach didn’t just get rid of the Flagler Bridge access to and from Palm Beach Island. They are replacing the bridge, and construction is slated to be complete by the end of June 2017.

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This was the ideal location because placing the bridge rubble between these two wreck sites would create an approximately 1-mile-long dive site, with multiple routes for divers to enjoy and a series of new habitats for our marine life to congregate.

Now, with the rubble in place, we were ready to explore this exciting new dive. Upon hearing the captain’s famous words that signal the start of every underwater adventure, “Dive! Dive! Dive!,” divers descend down upon the massive remnants of the Flagler Bridge. Following the current, they will come across concrete lateral bracing, fenders and bearings that give off an eerie type of feeling 80 feet below the surface.

As time progresses and nutrients flow, the bridge rubble will provide refuge to colorful marine life influencing and seducing reef fish and larger pelagic fish to come rest and feed among the others.

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As far as we can tell, the largest Florida horse-eye jack on record weighed 25-pounds, 12-ounces. It was caught back in October of 1997 by David Leavitt, who was fishing out of Palm Beach.

The IGFA all-tackle world record weighed 32 pounds. It was caught in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas by Terry Lee Ramsey in September, 2012.

Sharon said she caught the fish drifting a sardine on a 1-oz. weight over 130 feet of water. Horse-eyes aren’t really known as a great food fish, but they are edible, and like all jacks they put up a heck of a fight when hooked. Sharon said Capt. Mark was impressed with her strength as she hauled the big fish up. She is a 6-foot-tall wallpaper hanger, which makes for a strong back. That jack didn’t stand a chance.

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While two of the event’s tagged redfish were caught, only one angler was registered to win, and will walk away with a prize package worth more than $55,000 from Maverick Boat Group and Yamaha Outboards.

Monticello resident Benjamin Gavins caught a 19-inch STAR tagged redfish (tag FL637) on June 1 near Lanark Village in Franklin County. A CCA Florida member since 2013, Gavins was shocked to see the tag on his catch and immediately notified the organization, per event regulations.

“Frankly, I was stunned when I saw the green tag on that beautiful little red,” said Gavins. “This is my third year fishing the STAR event and it continues to be the most enjoyable fishing competition I have ever entered, and it’s all to support the conservation of our precious marine resources. I call that a win-win.”

Of the event’s major prizes, Gavins chose the 2017 Pathfinder 2200 TRS bay boat.

A second STAR tagged redfish, tag FL704, was also caught on June 1, but in Sisters Creek near Jacksonville. At the time of his catch, the angler was neither a CCA Florida member or registered for the STAR event and is ineligible for any prize package.

CCA Florida STAR, presented by Yamaha, is the largest family-friendly saltwater fishing competition in Florida and kickedoff on Saturday, May 27. STAR focuses on conservation and offers up to $500,000 in prizes and scholarships. CCA Florida is using the social media-based, 101-day event to educate the public on the importance of protecting Florida’s marine resources. Recognized as a “catch, photo and release” competition, STAR’s smart phone app eliminates the requirement for anglers to harvest or capture and transport fish.

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he first time I heard the term ‘shallow-water blackout’ my family had already been freediving and spearfishing for 24 years. My 19-year-old son Robert had taken a course and began describing this phenomenon of how a freediver could blackout while breath-hold diving. I waved my hand dismissively. “That happens to people who don’t know what they are doing,” I said. “We’re experienced.”

Three months later, I got schooled in just how wrong I was.

April 19, 2008 dawned with beautiful calm seas and clear skies—a spearfisherman’s dream. It was Robert’s 20th birthday, and he wanted to celebrate it by diving with his 16-year-old brother, David, and three other friends: Carson, 20; Nicky, 16; and Richard, 15, who were not experienced freedivers. The boys left early in the morning to freedive together, and we planned to join them in the afternoon with friends and family who were coming out with us on our larger boat.

After a successful dive of 50 feet, the boys decided to do a deeper dive. They put the anchor out in 92 feet of water, and Robert headed down first with David behind him. At the bottom, they both grabbed some sand before heading back up. Robert was 15 feet from the surface when he looked down at his brother and saw David motionless 30 feet below him. Robert swam down and grabbed his unconscious brother around the chest before heading for the surface. That’s the last thing Robert remembers.

Their friends on the boat suddenly noticed my sons’ bodies drifting face down in the current some 30 yards away. Carson dived off the boat and swam out to them with Nicky right behind him. They turned the boys over. My sons’ faces were blue with swollen purple lips and open staring eyes. The color of their eyes had faded. They were not breathing and were bleeding from the mouth. Their three traumatized friends— engulfed in a nightmare—worked together to bring them onboard and start CPR. And then I got the call.

“Hello?”

“There’s been an accident.”

“Which one?” I asked as fear enveloped me.

“Both.”

I clung to the table. My heart felt like it was going to explode. I took deep breaths trying to ease the pain in my chest, but it didn’t work. I started praying, with Carson’s girlfriend, that my sons would be spared.

My husband Walter and I met the helicopter at the hospital. The boys’ arterial blood gases (oxygen levels) were so low—32 and 54 per-

cent—the ER doctor did not believe the report and had it verbally repeated five times.

The pulmonologist told us our sons’ lungs presented as drowning victims. Yet, after three days in ICU, Robert and David were sent home to finish healing. It was a miracle.

Soon after the accident, concerned freedive experts contacted me and encouraged me to use my story to make a difference. I felt a strong desire to respond, and so two months after the accident, I founded DiveWise to further freedive safety education.

Tracking fatality reports is vital in understanding how accidents happen and how we can prevent them. Divers Alert Network (DAN) maintains an online Breath-hold Incident Database, so divers can report fatal and non-fatal blackout events easily and anonymously. This can be accessed at DiveWise.org.

Through much effort and single-minded dedication, Terry Maas has given a gift to freedivers everywhere with his ingenious device, the Freediver Recovery Vest (FRV).

This unit is designed, through the diver’s preset depth and time setting, to deliver a blackout victim to the surface face up. You can read more about it at oceanicss.com. My sons now wear the FRV when they freedive and spearfish.

There are other ways freedivers can mitigate the risk in this sport: 1. Dive with an evenly matched partner and conform to the level of the least capable diver.

2. Weight yourself correctly by being positively buoyant at the surface after a full exhalation.

3. Do not hyperventilate to excess.

4. Dive one up/one down maintaining constant visual contact.

5. When conditions allow, each diver should have a dive flag; if a boat is involved a dive flag should be conspicuously displayed.

6. Maintain close, direct supervision of a freediver for no less than 30 seconds after they surface, even if they have signaled “OK.” 7. Make your minimum surface interval twice the duration of your dive time.

8. Do not take every dive to its limit; maintain a reserve.

9. Review, practice, and discuss how to recognize and handle blackouts and near blackouts.

Never before has more effort from more groups created a greater combined potential for saving lives in the sport of freediving and spearfishing. We are hopeful this will correspond to a lower fatality rate.

DiveWise isn’t my organization. It’s yours. We are here to serve the freedive community. Please help by donating online at our website DiveWise.org, a 501 c(3) nonprofit organization, or by offering your suggestions on how we can better help the freedive community. We offer a big “thank you” to the organizations and individuals who have given generously these past nine years in support of our work. We couldn’t have done it without you.

Julie Richardson lives in Miami, Fla. with her husband and their three sons. She and her family are avid boaters and spearfishers. In 2010, Julie won the National Award from the Coast Guard funded National Water Safety Congress for her work in promoting water safety. To learn more visit DiveWise.org.

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Most important for anglers, this deep-water channel that connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean creates countless fishing opportunities.

The 1000 Islands Region of Upstate New York offers world-class fishing for huge and plentiful northern pike and tasty walleye, and for as long as anyone can remember it’s been the musky capital of North America. But it’s the St. Lawrence’s bass fishing that will take center stage this summer, with the Bassmaster Elite Series coming to the 1000 Islands Region for the third time in five years.

This fishery has always offered tremendous bass fishing, with countless shoals and sunken ships that create textbook structure for smallmouth bass, and myriad bays and weedy backwaters that offer phenomenal largemouth opportunities. A full day of bent rods on 2- and 3-pound smallmouth has always been the norm. In the last decade, an invasive baitfish species, the goby, has populated this and other Great Lakes. Their spread has been like steroids for the smallmouth population. The goby’s desired habitat aligns perfectly with the smallie’s dinner table. Evidence of this is the pot-bellied New York record 8-lb., 4-oz. smallmouth landed last August. This trophy smallmouth fishing has lured the highest level of tournament bass fishing to small, yet quaint Waddington, N.Y. from July 20-23.

Bassmaster recently polled its professionals and found that the St. Lawrence ranks among their favorite destinations. Five fish bags over 20 pounds are expected. The Angler Magazine field expert and Bassmaster Justin Walts predicts about 75 percent of the professionals will target smallmouths. In smallmouth waters, pros often ensure a five-fish bag of 2- to 3-pound smallies before seeking out bigger largemouth.

On the St. Lawrence, the dynamic changes because of the possibility of scoring huge smallmouth. Walts, who fishes the St. Lawrence often, favors drop-shotting deeper shoals in 25 to 50 feet of water with watermelon, shad or perch colored V-tailed shad or casting crankbaits and swimbaits on shoals 25 feet or shallower. Flipping weeds or tossing frogs in back bays is the ticket to score largemouth.

Spectator participation is also a factor for the Elite Series return to Waddington. In 2015, the town hosted over 30,000 fishing fans, breaking an Elite Series record. Waddington hosts a four-day event to entertain and feed visitors, with music and fireworks provided by local sponsors. Waddington is easily reached via a picturesque drive from Syracuse, or via airports in Massena, Ogdensburg, or Watertown, N.Y. Visit www.waddingtonpartyinthepark.com for more details. For more on fishing St. Lawrence County, visit www.fishcap.com to receive a free St. Lawrence County Anglers Guide and information on other tremendous fisheries, specifically Black Lake which is loaded with bass, crappie and pike.

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Every spring Okeechobee is invaded by thousands of anglers loaded down with cases of live crickets. I prefer to use artificials. For this reason, I look for them in open water instead of around heavy grass.

Okeechobee bream spawn in big groups. When you find them, you can catch your limit quickly, and they’re easy to spot on the edges of the grass when the sun gets up.

The only lure I use is a modified black Beetle Spin. I take a 1/32-ounce Beetle Spin and replace the arm and blade with an Arkie Jig Spinner, which is a slightly larger blade that makes the lure easier to cast and feel.

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club members are there because they are sociable and willing to help others. They remember starting out and are often willing to take you out and give advice. Just remember to return the favor by being a good buddy; help pay for the gas, bring snacks and water to share, and help clean the boat. That will hopefully get you invited back. Learning from others who already do it is probably the most valuable step you can take. If you are lucky, you will share many great experiences, have a new AJ Hally and Sheri Daye with dinner. set of lifelong friends, and maybe even find a mentor or two.

ummer is here! What better time to learn to spearfish? Many people have gotten into it because they were already “divers” and wanted to try another activity while underwater—as happened to me. A few fishermen, who weren’t yet divers, have asked me where to begin if they wanted to learn.

My first piece of advice to anyone is to be sure you are comfortable underwater, whether scuba diving or freediving.

One must be so comfortable underwater that it becomes second nature. If scuba diving, achieving proper buoyancy should happen without even thinking about it. If freediving, it’s best to have many dives under your belt before picking up a speargun. Fortunately, there are many dive agencies and dive shops that offer scuba certification and freediving instruction. Beyond that, I recommend at least one year’s worth of experience diving under different conditions before attempting to spearfish. It is a very good sign if you are so calm and collected in the water that fish which are normally “spooky” will let you swim near them instead of running from your presence (such as mutton snappers and black groupers). This is the sign of an experienced diver and will help you to properly hunt fish.

When ready to begin, it’s important to have the right equipment— and I’m not just talking about a speargun. Get advice from a reputable dive shop that specializes in spearfishing. They will guide you toward the right wetsuit, mask, knife, gloves and speargun. Dive shops are familiar with local conditions and will give good advice.

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Here are a few more tips: 1. Always remember that safety comes first. Don’t do anything that is risky or beyond your comfort zone.

2. Learn what size and species to target in order to maintain quality and selectivity.

Keep it honorable and ethical. Consider setting even higher standards than the law allows.

3. Spend more time observing in the beginning. Watch the more experienced hunters; you can learn a lot just by watching them.

4. Consider starting with a polespear instead of a speargun in order to refine your stalking skills, as this requires that you get closer. This is especially good for young divers.

5. Enjoy the experience, keep it fun and consider being a mentor to someone else as you improve.

Sheri is a world-record holder, host of Speargun Hunter and producer of “The Blue Wild Ocean Adventure Expo” in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Follow “Sheri Daye” and “The Blue Wild” on Facebook and Instagram.

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t’s summertime, and shallow-water fishing for reds is kicking off this month. It will last through mid October on the Atlantic Coast, and to mid February along the Gulf Coast. Before you “see” your first tailing redfish, you really feel like everyone is just making this up. You see nothing during an eight hour shallow-water expedition, and others come back speaking of tails “… like a used car lot, flags everywhere,” as Capt. Chuck Uzzle of Orange, Texas would say.

But why aren’t you seeing this?

There are several factors involved in seeing tailing redfish, redfish swimming in shallow water; they are not easy to see. If you are fishing shallow seagrass, marsh or even flooded spartina marsh in areas where redfish roam and you’re doing it during a season when shrimp are abundant in those areas, then there are tailing redfish there. Let’s take a look at what you should be looking for with your eyes.

Both Capt. Steve Soule of Galveston, Texas and Chuck McKinney of Portland, Texas say you should be looking for the horizontal line of the redfish’s back. Everything in the marsh and on seagrass flats tends to be either vertical or irregular shaped. Grass is vertical, potholes are irregular, even oyster reef edges are irregular. See a redfish cruising the flats, and the first thing you will notice is the horizontal line of it’s back.

A good pair of Costa 580g lenses is what you want for this. The only difference between a cruiser and a tailer is that the tailer is probably nose down into the mud and a little bit of his tail is sticking out of the water.

You’ll probably only see a little dark triangle at the end of the horizontal line of the redfish’s back. You typically won’t see the big blue tail and black dot rising out of the water waving at you like a little red flag back and forth. So begin to look for the horizontal line, the small triangle, and the glow of coppery orange. This should help you to see what’s been in front of you all along.

Let’s talk about something else here that’s also a problem for most people. These environments are very grassy, and throwing an open-throated jig head during summer low tides is asking for trouble.

Might as well go ahead and throw the lunch salad on a hook, because that’s all that fish is going to see. You have to throw something weedless that you can cast accurately, no matter the wind, something that can get the fish’s attention with action or accuracy, and sinks naturally so they can’t pass up such an easy meal. The troutsupport.com lure solves many of the frustrations sight casters have to put up with. Both reds and speckled trout love it. It casts far and accurately, walks the dog, wobbles like a big slow spoon, but is buoyant enough to sink slowly right in the fish’s face.

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Choosing Colors

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By Darrell Primrose, Ballyhood Lures

“M

atch the hatch” is an old adage fishermen have used for ages.

It comes from freshwater fly fishing, in which anglers seek to match, with an artificial fly, the insect life hatching off the water to fool feeding trout.

The same concept applies across the fishing world. Offshore, this can mean taking the time to examine the stomach contents of the first fish you catch to see what it was feeding on. Cut that fish open and check the length and size of the current forage as well as its color.

Then use that information to choose your lures accordingly.

I get to talk to anglers worldwide on a daily basis.

I ask them all, “What colors are most prevalent?” What I’ve learned from them goes into our Ballyhood trolling lures, and the best color combinations change from location to location.

On the West Coast, where anchovies, sardines, mackerel and squid

are the most prolific forage species, the most popular trolling lure colors are used in our Mexican flag, which is green/yellow/red/white. Black/ purple is another color scheme proven to produce in a trolling spread.

Squid turn purple, and that could be a reason it is such a successful color.

Zuchini is also a very popular color used on the West Coast. It’s a green/ orange/yellow lure.

Now, taking a look at the northeast—in the Atlantic off New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey—they catch more tuna than most places in the world. Their top must-use colors are solid green, green/yellow and black/purple.

In Florida, the Bahamas and the Virgin Islands, the No. 1 color is light blue. Colors known as Bally Blue and Flying Fish Blue are quite productive. I’ll assume you caught the baitfish reference in those color names.

Pink/white and black/red also see a lot of time in the water, but anglers in these southern waters very rarely use anything green. Their water is very clear, which I think has something to do with it.

In the Northeast, as on the West Coast of the U.S., the water is fairly dark. When you start to get farther south in the Pacific around Cabo San Lucas and down to Cancun, the colors used tend to lean toward the same choices as those used in Florida, the Bahamas and the Caribbean. The southern Pacific has the same type of clear water as they enjoy off south Florida.

I can tell you the most overlooked color on the southern West Coast is pink or pink/white, at the same time pink/white is the No. 1 color for albacore off Oregon and Washington. Another guideline to color choices is to use dark colors on dark days and bright colors on bright days.

Now some of this information has to do with matching the hatch, some of it is based on water clarity, but all off it is gathered from onthe-water experience and reflects what produces fish the best. Color is an absolutely critical factor in choosing which lures to include in a spread.

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This allowance, the result of negotiations between the five Gulf states and the DOC, comes on the heels of the shortest recreational red snapper season in history. Private recreational anglers were originally allowed just three days of snapper fishing in federal waters June 1-3.

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ishing is about being in the right place, at the right time, with the right gear.

One bit of gear nearly every angler uses yet may take for granted are sunglasses.

But when it comes to fishing sunglasses, what separates a good pair from a great pair?

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20% OFF

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$ 99 1" x 25 FT. TAPE MEASURE

VALUE

ANY SINGLE ITEM

ITEM 69030/69031 shown LIMIT 1 - Cannot be used with other discount, coupon or prior purchase.

Coupon good at our stores, HarborFreight.com or by calling 800-423-2567.

Offer good while supplies last. Shipping & Handling charges may apply if not picked up in-store. Non-transferable. Original coupon must be presented.

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900 PEAK/700 RUNNING WATTS 2 HP (63 CC) 2 CYCLE GAS GENERATOR

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8 GALLON, 2 HP SAVE 125 PSI OIL LUBE $59 AIR COMPRESSOR

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$ ITEM 69667 68740 shown

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$149.98

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3-IN-1 PORTABLE POWER PACK WITH JUMP STARTER

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Includes hook, mirror, magnet accessories, and video-out cable.

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ITEM 61253/62326/61282 shown

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ITEM 62515 66911 shown

• Powerful 15 amp motor • Makes precision cross, bevel and miter cuts • Laser guide

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• Weighs 73 lbs.

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1500 WATT DUAL TEMPERATURE HEAT GUN (572°/1112°) Customer Rating

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SUZUKI DEALS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ALL THREE SUZUKI DEALS FOR MORE SUMMER FUN

Six Years of Protection at no extra charge on all new outboards 25 to 300 HP.

Cash Rebates on select models.

See your dealer for details.

REPOWER FINANCE

Rates as low as 5.99% on new Suzuki outboards (OAC).*

For details and the name of your nearest participating Suzuki Marine dealer, visit www.suzukimarine.com Gimme Six Extended Protection promo is applicable to new Suzuki Outboard Motors from 25 to 300 HP in inventory which are sold and delivered to buyer between 7/01/17 and 9/30/17 in accordance with the promotion by a Participating Authorized Suzuki Marine dealer in the continental US and Alaska to a purchasing customer who resides in the continental US or Alaska.

Customer should expect to receive an acknowledgement letter and full copy of contract including terms, conditions and wallet card from Suzuki Extended Protection within 90 days of purchase.

If an acknowledgement letter is not received in time period stated, contact Suzuki Motor of America, Inc. – Marine Marketing via email: marinepromo@suz.com. The Gimme Six Promotion is available for pleasure use only, and is not redeemable for cash. Cash Rebates apply to qualifying purchases of select Suzuki Outboard Motors made between 7/01/17 and 9/30/17. For list of designated models, see participating Dealer or visit www.suzukimarine.com. Customer and participating Dealer must fill out the appropriate rebate form at time of sale. Customer will have the choice to either apply the cash rebate against the original dealer invoice (Suzuki will credit Dealer parts account) or have a check sent directly to the customer. There are no model substitutions, benefit substitutions, rain checks, or extensions. Suzuki reserves the right to change or cancel these promotions at any time without notice or obligation. * Financing offers available through Synchrony Retail Finance. As low as 5.99% APR financing for 60 months on new and unregistered Suzuki Outboard Motors. Subject to credit approval. Not all buyers will qualify. Approval, and any rates and terms provided, are based on credit worthiness. $19.99/month per $1,000 financed for 60 months is based on 5.99% APR. Hypothetical figures used in calculation; your actual monthly payment may differ based on financing terms, credit tier qualification, accessories or other factors such as down payment and fees. Offer effective on new, unregistered Suzuki Outboard Motors purchased from a participating authorized Suzuki dealer between 7/01/17 and 9/30/17. “Gimme Six”, the Suzuki “S” and model names are Suzuki trademarks or ®. Don’t drink and drive. Always wear a USCG-approved life jacket and read your owner’s manual. © 2017 Suzuki Motor of America, Inc.

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