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How to Deep Drop for Barrel Fish - A Rare Monster From the Deep | WAYPOINT

How to Deep Drop for Barrel Fish - A Rare Monster From the Deep | WAYPOINT

The Florida Everglades make up one of the most well-known and treasured American National Parks. They are also being “strangled” by water issues. Since the damming of the Kissimmee River, the Everglades’ primary source of freshwater, this beautiful fishery has seen “endangered wildlife populations, declining water quality, water mismanagement, [and] extensive urban and agricultural development,” according to Captains For Clean Water, a conservation organization dedicated to restoring the health and natural beauty of the Everglades. Read more on Waypoint…

2 Tricks for Fishing the Everglades and How to Help Keep Them Healthy | WAYPOINT

2 Tricks for Fishing the Everglades and How to Help Keep Them Healthy | WAYPOINT

The Florida Everglades make up one of the most well-known and treasured American National Parks. They are also being “strangled” by water issues. Since the damming of the Kissimmee River, the Everglades’ primary source of freshwater, this beautiful fishery has seen “endangered wildlife populations, declining water quality, water mismanagement, [and] extensive urban and agricultural development,” according to Captains For Clean Water, a conservation organization dedicated to restoring the health and natural beauty of the Everglades. Read more on Waypoint…

MotorGuide | How To Catch Skittish Fish

MotorGuide | How To Catch Skittish Fish

Fishing on the flats is can be a challenge to get those skittish fish that face significant fishing pressure and boat traffic. Rich and I will frequently stake out and try two or three times before we can get their attention. Fish like this we refer to as suffering from “lockjaw” as they will refuse to eat.

Richard Black And The Everglades Snook

Richard Black And The Everglades Snook

Hurricane Irma passed over the Florida Keys as a Category 4 storm on September 10, 2018.  Irma was the biggest storm to make landfall on the Florida Keys since Hurricane Wilma moved across the southeastern Gulf of Mexico and southern Florida peninsula during the morning of Monday, October 24, 2005.  Wilma was responsible for hurricane force winds and the highest storm surge observed in the Keys since Hurricane Betsy, on September 8, 1965.