Fishing

Fresh from a team win in the IGFA Offshore World Championship in Mexico, Robert Collins won the IGFA Inshore World Championship in Islamorada this week while defending his grand-champion title, accumulating the most points for five targeted species.

Posted - Thursday, July 03, 2008 03:04 PM EDT

For about 50 armed services members and veterans, last Saturday represented both an early Independence Day and Veterans Day celebration rolled into one.

Posted - Thursday, July 03, 2008 11:02 AM EDT

The Islamorada Fishing and Conservation Trust has scheduled its seventh annual “RedGhost Stalk,” an all-release backcountry fishing tournament, for kickoff on Sunday, July 27, and fishing on Monday, July 28.

Posted - Thursday, July 03, 2008 10:59 AM EDT

Gus Sarno of Cinnaminson, N.J., caught a 37.9-pound dolphin to take top honors in the 19th annual Key West Gator Club Dolphin Derby that ended June 22.

Posted - Thursday, July 03, 2008 09:22 AM EDT

PHILIPPINES — After a couple of wild weeks and lots of great stories we have slowed down a bit to take a breath and relax.

Posted - Thursday, July 03, 2008 11:01 AM EDT

Jim Young, a part-time resident of Marathon, went into the bait shop and told the guy behind the counter what he and his buddies saw on their last fishing trip.

Posted - Wednesday, July 02, 2008 04:48 PM EDT

The long-delayed reauthorization of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act likely will be delayed a while longer.

Posted - Wednesday, July 02, 2008 07:01 AM EDT

PHILIPPINES — After a couple of wild weeks and lots of great stories we have slowed down a bit to take a breath and relax.

Posted - Tuesday, July 01, 2008 04:02 PM EDT

Even kayakers could find themselves needing a proposed federal permit regulating boating discharges, the Environmental Protection Agency says. On the positive side, a vessel discharge permit for a kayak or other motorless vessel might cost only 29 cents to $2.29, according to an EPA fact sheet released this week.

Posted - Tuesday, June 24, 2008 09:03 PM EDT

It’s hot, but I think it’s supposed to be. After all we are in South Florida and it is June!

Posted - Tuesday, June 24, 2008 04:11 PM EDT

Jayne Kilpatrick of Summerland Key, fishing with Capt. Joe Rodriguez of Homestead, won the 32nd annual Women’s Fly Series Tarpon Tournament that ended June 13 in Islamorada.

Posted - Tuesday, June 24, 2008 04:14 PM EDT

Rejecting a call for harsher punishment, a Fort Lauderdale federal judge May 22 ordered the owner of a South Florida charter fishing business to serve five years on probation for not reporting sailfish reeled in by customers and killing undersized fish.

Posted - Friday, May 30, 2008 07:58 PM EDT

The weather was beautiful the entire Memorial Day weekend around the areas of the Upper Keys. The opening of the new Jewfish Creek Bridge allowed swarms of traffic into the Keys both on the highways and the waterways.

Posted - Friday, May 30, 2008 07:35 PM EDT

They held the same position — fourth place — the previous three days but the steady-paced fishing of team members from Islamorada paid off in the end as they captured the title in the International Game Fish Association Offshore World Championship May 14.

Posted - Monday, May 26, 2008 10:46 PM EDT