Welcome to the latest installment of the Wednesday Wake-Up Call, a roundup of the most pressing conservation issues important to anglers. Working with our friends at Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, the Theodore Roosevelt . . .
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Podcast: The Science behind the Everglades Storage Reservoir, with Dr. Steve Davis
This week begins a month of habitat/conservation podcasts as a celebration of Earth Month. We start the series off with Dr. Steve Davis, Chief Science Officer for the Everglades Foundation, and instead of talking about the boring aspects of Everglades . . .
Read MoreVideo: “Follow the Water” Gets to the Heart of Everglades Restoration
When most people think of the Everglades, they picture the sawgrass wetlands and mangroves at the southern tip of Florida. What they don’t realize is that the health of this incredible ecosystem is dependent upon events far to the north. Historically, . . .
Read MoreClassic Podcast: Fishing the Everglades with Capt. Jason Sullivan
This week I interview Capt. Jason Sullivan, of Rising Tide Charters, who fishes out of Flamingo in South Florida and covers both the southern Everglades and Florida Bay. We talk a lot about. . .
Read MoreVideo: The Magic of Redfish on the Fly
Here’s a gorgeous film from Costa that explores why fly fishers love redfish–from Chesapeake Bay to Florida to the Laguna Madre of southern Texas. Although the fish are the same, the angling subculture and techniques are often quite different. Along the . . .
Read MorePodcast: How You Can Make a Difference in Your Fishery, with Capt. Benny Blanco
This week, my guest is Capt. Benny Blanco of Islamorada, in the Florida Keys. Benny talks about his life in the Keys and about how he came to realize that the fishery on which he made his living was threatened–and how he learned to make a difference. . . .
Read MoreWednesday Wake-Up Call 06.15.22 
Welcome to the latest installment of the Wednesday Wake-Up Call, a roundup of the most pressing conservation issues important to anglers. Working with our friends at Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, the Theodore Roosevelt . . .
Read MoreWednesday Wake-Up Call 02.16.22
Today’s Wake-Up Call is devoted to the important legislation pending in Florida, which threatens Everglades-restorations efforts by deprioritizing the EAA Reservoir project south of Lake Okeechobee and by changing the . . .
Read MoreThe One That Got Away #2: Don’t Be a Slacker
I moved to southwestern Florida in 2008 with visions of massive tarpon competing for my perfectly presented fly. But despite many concerted efforts to make that happen–often spending days at a time anchored up waiting on fish to show–it would . . .
Read More3 Guide-Tested Patterns for Everglades National Park
Everglades National Park is one of the more productive and unique fisheries in the world. Located at the southern tip of Florida below the subtropical line, where southward-flowing fresh water finally collide with the salty Gulf, the Everglades is a . . .
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