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Reel Time: Reframe adversity as opportunity

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On those winter days when fronts blow away your fishing adventures, turn those lost opportunities into future successes. Reframe the disappointment into an opportunity...

Reel Time: A catalyst for change

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When I asked Jon Thaxton, Vice President of Community Investment at the Gulf Coast Community Foundation (GCCF), about the "backstory" of the foundation’s newly-released...

Reel Time: Get wet

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For the first time in a few years, we’re having an “actual” winter. When anglers consider their options this time of year many never...

Reel Time: Fishing with Captain Nick Angelo

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Fishing has always presented challenges. For me, 2020 proved the most challenging in recent memory. Consider the inherent conditions that combine in mysterious ways...

Reel Time: Push pole pointers

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Push poles have come a long way. They’ve evolved from wooden poling oars hewn from tree limbs to technological wonders constructed of carbon fiber,...
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Rusty Chinnis

Rusty Chinnis is an avid fly fisherman, a photojournalist and a retired building contractor in addition to being a passionate defender of the local environment's importance to the health and economy of the area. A 42-year resident of Longboat Key and Manatee County, he is chairman of the board of Suncoast Waterkeeper, a founder and former co-chairman of the Sister Keys Conservancy, and founder and chairman emeritus of Sarasota Bay Watch in addition to being The Sun's Outdoors columnist. Email

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