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Mullet off to slow start

Dec 4, 2018 – Cindy Lane
May 15, 2018
By Rusty Chinnis
reel time Casting For Recovery

Casting for recovery

The cool air along the Chattahoochee River mingled with the mid-morning sun created a magical backdrop for the female fly fishers as they worked their way along the stream with their guides. I had…
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May 1, 2018
By SUN contributor
Waterline fishing tournament group

Waterline hosts Kings for Kids Fishing Tournament

The Waterline Marina Resort and Beach Club in Holmes Beach hosted its first Kings for Kids Fishing Tournament April 21 in Holmes Beach. The event was held in conjunction with the Marriott Business Co…
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September 30, 2017
By Cindy Lane

Cortez fishermen ready crab traps for season

CORTEZ – The Florida stone crab harvest begins Oct. 15, and Cortez commercial fishermen are readying traps to drop them in Gulf of Mexico and Sarasota Bay waters around Anna Maria Island. Wire and…
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August 1, 2017
By Joe Hendricks
Shark dragging

Shark dragging incident has Island ties

The first week of an ongoing Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) investigation into an online video of a shark being dragged behind a speeding boat produced public outcry, but lit…
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April 27, 2016
By Cindy Lane
Hammerhead shark

Legendary hammerhead immortalized

“My big fish must be somewhere.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea CORTEZ – “Go big,” Eric Grimes likes to say. So why not commission a life-size replica of the biggest, baddest, meaner…
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March 4, 2015
By Cindy Lane
John Yates

Conviction tossed in fish-tossing case

CORTEZ – The U.S. Supreme Court decided 5-4 last week to overturn the 2011 conviction of former commercial fisherman John Yates for destroying undersized grouper in a federal fisheries investigation…
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November 12, 2014
By Cindy Lane
John Yates

U.S. Supreme Court considers fish case

WASHINGTON – Some U.S. Supreme Court justices question whether a law designed to prevent documentary evidence destruction passed in the wake of the Enron scandal should have been used to convict and…
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May 14, 2014
By Cindy Lane
White and brown pelicans

Law needed to help pelicans, turtles

HOLMES BEACH – After a year of trying to educate fishermen not to cut fishing lines that entangle pelicans and other wildlife, Jeannie Bystrom wants Island officials to emulate Naples and pass ordina…
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November 24, 2010
By Cindy Lane

Coast Lines: Octopi and golf balls – a perfect match

It doesn’t surprise John Labash to pull yet another stone crab trap out of the Gulf of Mexico and find an octopus has gobbled up his profits. He just bags the octopus and sells it to Bell Fish Co…
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November 10, 2008
By Cindy Lane
Karen Bell

Longline ban evokes net ban anniversary

CORTEZ – As fishermen from nearby states pull into town with their boats in tow for the annual battle over lucrative mullet roe, Cortez fishermen are reminded of the war they lost 15 years ago this w…
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April 9, 2025
11:45 am

The Off-Stage Ladies of the Island Players, April luncheon meeting