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Where’s Bortie?

Apr 30, 2021 – Cindy Lane
April 19, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Turtle trackers predict Bortie’s return

Turtle trackers predict Bortie’s return

ANNA MARIA ISLAND – Just in time for the May 1 start of sea turtle nesting season off AMI, Bortie may be coming home to nest. The female loggerhead sea turtle was satellite-tagged and released fro…
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April 12, 2021
By Rusty Chinnis
Reel Time: An unfolding tragedy

Reel Time: An unfolding tragedy

Rounding a mangrove corner into Clam Bar Bay on the edges of Tampa Bay, I had the sensation of a place remembered. I had first visited Moses Hole on a kayak outing in 2013. But this time, somethin…
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April 12, 2021
By Jason Schaffer
Newly constructed Coquina Beach lifeguard tower #9

New Coquina Beach lifeguard towers offer high tech public safety solutions

COQUINA BEACH – If you head to Coquina Beach in Bradenton Beach, you may be surprised to find something entirely different than the lifeguard towers you’re used to seeing on American beaches. For de…
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April 5, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Coast Lines: First, do no harm

Coast Lines: First, do no harm

A recent visit to the Mulberry Phosphate Museum was fascinating, with its finds of prehistoric giant ground sloths, mammoths, sharks, manatees and crocodiles, and even a 3000-year-old dugout canoe, a…
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April 5, 2021
By Rusty Chinnis

Reel Time: The price of inaction

On Monday, March 26, the latest and hopefully final chapter unfolded in a sordid novel with no redeeming chapters and a far less-than-happy ending. The saga began in the 1960s when the Borden Corpora…
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March 29, 2021
By Cindy Lane

Turtle released in bay

ANNA MARIA – A small crowd clapped and cheered as Mote Marine’s Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital staff released a loggerhead sea turtle, nicknamed “O-H,” into Tampa Bay from Bayfront Park on Wednes…
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March 29, 2021
By Rusty Chinnis
Reel Time: Zen and fishing

Reel Time: Zen and fishing

It dawned on me recently as I was wading a local flat that I was experiencing what I have written about over the past few years, namely the common ground that angling and Zen share. Zen’s focus on…
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March 21, 2021
By Rusty Chinnis

Reel Time: The promise of spring

Spring is here, I can feel it, even if the fish haven’t given a clear signal yet. The Tree of Gold next door is in full bloom and I recently heard the first whippoorwill trilling in the pre-dawn dark…
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March 15, 2021
By Rusty Chinnis
Reel Time: The importance of tides

Reel Time: The importance of tides

Having a good working knowledge of the tides in your area will greatly increase your angling odds. While I always like to follow the axiom, “The best time to go fishing is whenever you can,” understa…
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March 8, 2021
By Rusty Chinnis

Volunteers clean up Sister Keys

Suncoast Waterkeeper teamed up with Sarasota Bay Watch on Saturday, March 6 during the annual Sister Keys cleanup. Thirty-five volunteers braved inclement weather and collected almost 900 pounds o…
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