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Reel Time: Finding the silver lining?

Apr 6, 2020 – Rusty Chinnis
February 25, 2020
By Rusty Chinnis
Reel Time: Pulitzer Prize winning author to speak

Reel Time: Pulitzer Prize winning author to speak

On March 8, Suncoast Waterkeepers (SWK), a local environmental group whose mission is to protect and restore the Florida Suncoast’s waterways through enforcement, fieldwork, advocacy and environmenta…
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February 17, 2020
By Rusty Chinnis
Reel Time Scallopalooza It's Clamtastic

Reel Time: Scallopalooza, It’s Clamtastic

Sarasota Bay Watch (SBW) held its 10th Annual “Scallopalooza, It’s Clamtastic” fund-raising event at their new venue, Sarasota’s Hyatt Regency Hotel. on Saturday, Feb. 15. The yearly event sold out a…
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February 3, 2020
By Rusty Chinnis

Reel Time: “Fish farm” proposal troubling

On Tuesday, Jan. 28, I attended an EPA public comment session at Mote Marine Laboratory. The hearing gave the public an opportunity to speak to a proposed draft permit to test the raising of almaco j…
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January 27, 2020
By Rusty Chinnis

Reel Time: Get in on the hot winter action

Until recently, Gulf water temperatures have been surprisingly warm. It’s always been typical for a cold front to send water temperatures plummeting, after which a warming trend will send them back i…
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January 21, 2020
By Rusty Chinnis
The solution to climate change

Reel Time: The solution to climate change

On Tuesday, Jan. 14, I attended an advance screening of the documentary, “Kiss The Ground,” based on the novel of the same name by Josh Tickell. The screening previewed at the newly remodeled Bishop…
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January 14, 2020
By Rusty Chinnis
Reel Time: Scallopalooza, It’s Clamtastic

Reel Time: Scallopalooza, it’s clamtastic

Sarasota Bay Watch’s “Scallopalooza, It’s Clamtastic!” fundraising event is celebrating its 10th anniversary on Feb. 15, 2020. SBW’s major fundraiser supports the many projects the organization is…
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January 7, 2020
By Rusty Chinnis

Reel Time: Fishing bridges, piers and docks

You don’t have to have a boat to get to some of this winter’s best fishing. Bridges, docks and piers provide anglers who don’t have a boat or don’t want to bother with one some excellent fishing oppo…
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December 18, 2019
By Rusty Chinnis
Reel Time: The ups and downs of tides

Reel Time: The ups and downs of tides

The only thing I know for sure after almost four decades of fishing area waters is that I’ll never figure it out. That’s in the context of finding fish and divining the conditions that make them w…
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December 10, 2019
By Rusty Chinnis
Reel Time: We’ll See

Reel Time: We’ll See

Recently I was intent on fishing an area that has become one of my favorite haunts. Unfortunately, when I got there another boat was anchored nearby. As I started working my way towards my int…
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November 19, 2019
By Rusty Chinnis
Reel Time: Mars Bay Bonefish Lodge

Reel Time: Mars Bay Bonefish Lodge

“Big bonefish 12 o’clock, 60 feet mon,” our Bahamian guide Lox whispered to my partner Gerry Tipper. Pointing his rod, Lox had him swing the tip until three big dark shapes morphed into view. When…
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April 9, 2025
11:45 am

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