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Island Life

Snook Brothers Cart Project

Even on the Island, most of the time we travel out to our fishing holes in a vehicle. The transportation of choice has been the golf cart formerly known as “Number 2”. Now before your childish potty humor brain area … Read More

Ghost Town Sheepshead

When Teresa told me her parents and aunt and uncle were coming to visit, I told her to let them know that if they wanted to eat fish, that they would have to stop in Matlacha at one of the … Read More

Great White Grunt

It has been a while since our last blog entry, for the most part due to the fairly significant impact of the severe red tide conditions that have continued in our area for months. The most recent month or so … Read More

Red Tide Redfish

Well the fishing is challenging these days. The red tide just keeps on hanging around. Each week, there are moments when it seems like we might get a bit of clearing, then another few thousand fish come floating by and … Read More

Molten Lead is HOT!

If you are a regular reader of our blog, you will recall the continuing battle we have with keeping hooked Snook away from dock pilings or from sawing through our leader with their sandpaper like teeth. The result of that … Read More

For the People

We live in a time in our country when the views I see presented from various media sources seem to point out the worst individual examples of almost every group of people in our country with a palatable distrust of … Read More