Anglers say a plan by the Army Corps of Engineers to restore water flow in the Everglades could ruin their fishing-based economy.
Anglers aboard the Reel McCoy, skippered by George McElveen, released 27 sailfish during two days of fishing to garner top honors at the inaugural Billfish Bowl that ended Saturday off the Florida Keys.
South Florida's inshore waters are slowly warming, the smell of rotting fish carcasses is fading and there are plenty of fish for catch and release in Florida Bay.
Some might argue - at great personal peril - that New York Jets kicker Jay Feely, formerly of the Dolphins, opted to go with the better team. But there's no argument Feely made the right pick among fishing teams Wednesday in the inaugural Super Celebrity Fishing Classic in Miami.
Captain Jim Hobales of Caught Lookin Fishing Charters has been having plenty of action from tarpon, snapper and grouper around Haulover Inlet and Government Cut. The best baits have been free-lined live shrimp and Gulp shrimp fished on a jig head.
The hospital waiting room was packed with patients, but these weren't humans. They were endangered green sea turtles covered with golf-ball-sized growths.
Wound Up, owned by Miami's Warren Sands and skippered by captain John Louie Dudas, held onto the lead Sunday in the Sea-Vee/Mercury Mayor's Cup Tournament with a two-day total of 23 sailfish releases.
Olympic gold medalist Anna Tunnicliffe of Plantation and her two-woman crew won gold Saturday in the women's match racing final at the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta on Biscayne Bay. But it didn't come easy.
The Super Celebrity Fishing Classic and Billfish Bowl will be held this week to raise funds for worthy causes.
Wound Up, owned by Miami's Warren Sands and skippered by captain John Louie Dudas, took the opening lead Saturday in the two-day Mayor's Cup Tournament with 18 sailfish releases. Get Lit, owned by Kitt Toomey and skippered by captain Quinton Dieterle is in second going into Sunday's final with 14 releases. Sands and Toomey are tied for top angler with seven sails apiece.
Scott Whitman and crew Julia Dorsett overcame a restart and a trailing trap line Friday to repeat as champions in the SKUD 18 class at the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta on Biscayne Bay.
Thursday was a critical day for sailors competing in the Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta.
Highlighted by lead changes and consolidations, it raised the heat for Friday's final stretch: where medal winners in three Paralympic classes will be named and the top 10 sailors in 10 Olympic classes will be determined for entry into Saturday's medal races.
On a picturesque, light-air Wednesday on Biscayne Bay, the team of Scott Whitman (Brick, N.J.) and Julie Dorsett (West Chester, Pa./Boca Raton) lead the SKUD-18 class after two first-place finishes on the third day of US Sailing's 2010 Rolex Miami OCR.
Miami psychotherapist Jan Maizler frantically cast his white Spro jig into the cool, somewhat murky waters of Peck's Lake near Stuart. As soon as he began to reel, line spooled off in a backward blur from the yank of an unseen creature.
Captain Richard Burson of Rufishingyet Charters out of Key Largo reported anchoring and chumming on the patch reefs and fishing with live shrimp, pilchards and pinfish on the bottom has been producing a lot of action from yellowtail and mangrove snappers, gag, black and red groupers, Spanish and cero mackerel and sharks.
Students at Shake-A-Leg Miami will hold a Kayak-a-Thon from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in Biscayne Bay to benefit disaster relief in Haiti. The paddlers are requesting donations from the community such as canned food, diapers, hand sanitizer, unused clothing, peroxide, rubbing alcohol, bandages and gauze. To make a donation, call Jonas Roddenberry at 305-858-5550, ext.168.
More than 600 sailors from 44 countries will participate in the Miamisk,2 Olympic Classes Regattathat starts Monday.
Captain Mike Puller and his dad, Wes, will take donated medical supplies to earthquake victims in Haiti.
Captain Quinton Dieterle of Miami led his Get Lit team to an overall victory at the 20th annual Cheeca Lodge Presidential Sailfish Tournament that ended Saturday. Dieterle guided Kitt Toomey of Coral Gables, Peter Miller of Pinecrest and Jon Cooper and Cap Hinckley of Miami to a total of 20 sailfish releases.
Captain Bob Fernicola of Backcountry/Ocean Charters out of Key Largo had good action from yellowtail and mutton snappers, hogfish, small grouper, jacks, porgies, margates and grunts, sharks, cero and Spanish and king mackerel while anchored and chumming on the outer reef line off of Key Largo.
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