KEY WEST, Florida Keys — Greg Vincent of Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, caught and released two permit, measuring a total of 56.75 inches, to win the 2013 Del Brown Permit Tournament that ended July 17. A permit landed during the Del Brown Permit tournament being released The tournament honors the late angling legend Brown, who […]
Last month, the Flats Ecology Program (FECP) continued its bonefish tagging efforts as part of The Bahamas Initiative, an ongoing project between Cape Eleuthera Institute, the Fisheries Conservation Foundation, and the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust, to assess population size, movements, and growth of The Bahamas’ bonefish population. The latest tagging efforts on Grand Bahama Island, funded […]
For the remainder of 2013, anyone joining BTT at any level of membership will automatically be entered to win a 5 night and 4 day guided fishing trip for 2 anglers to the Palometa Club in Ascension Bay, Mexico. If you’ve already joined this year as a dues paying member, you’re already included. If not, please join today […]
Famed for its clear water and trophy bonefish, Biscayne Bay has been tainted by an algae bloom that may rank as the largest ever recorded in the bay. The bloom, which has left large swathes of the bay looking like pea soup and smelling like a Porta-Potty, appears to pose no human health risks and […]
ISLAMORADA, FLORIDA KEYS — Discerning anglers from around the world will return to Cheeca Lodge & Spa this fall for some competitive sport fishing and to raise funds for the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust. The dates of the Second Annual Cheeca Lodge All American Backcountry Fishing Tournament are November 8-10, 2013. “The goal of this […]
Steve Liesman and the Squawk Box crew discuss the economics of fishing. Check out the video of their discussion.
Our friends down at the Palometa Club in Punta Allen, Mexico recent hosted their first annual permit tournament, May 17-24 with a portion of the proceeds benefitting BTT and the Jon Ain Memorial Fund. The event brought together 20 anglers from all over the country and as far as Argentina for a week long, laid […]
Capt. Justin Moore released one of the largest tarpon ever caught on Florida’s Gulf Coast on Monday off Anna Maria Island. The monster tarpon was likely a state record of at least 250 pounds, and possibly a world record. “I wouldn’t have killed the fish anyway. It’s just not worth it to me,” said Moore, […]
Actually the “dam” is the Tamiami Trail, the “leak” a one-mile bridge that will soon allow water to flow south through the Shark River Valley for the first time in nearly a century. The new bridge is just west of Miami in the Everglades, just east of Coopertown. “Floridians and Americans can see where the […]
A decline in prey like shrimp and crabs is not the main cause of the drop in bonefish populations in Florida Bay, writes Sue Cocking in the Miami Herald, referring to the one-year study conducted by Audubon Florida and funded by Bonefish Tarpon Trust. The study — conducted in 2012 — compared flats in the Lower Keys, […]
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