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Contributing Editors:Photography: ASA1000.com

Senior Editor: Capt. Ron BlagoRiver and Shore: Fishinʼ Frank

Charlotte Harbor: Capt. Billy BartonDiving: Adam Wilson

Punta Gorda: Capt. Chuck EichnerVenice: Glen Ballinger

Estero: Capt. Joe AngiusKayaking: Bob Frasier

Sea Grant: Betty StauglerOffshore: Capt. Jim OʼBrien

Beach Fishing: Mallory HerzogCirculation: Robert Cohn

Pier Fishing: Bobby VitalisOffice Dog: Molly Brown (in memorium)

On the Cover: A beautiful Fish Rubmade from a fresh vermillion snapper

by diver/artist Adam Wilson. See page 12

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Send letters and photos to: [email protected] MikeHere's my tale of woe.Last August I purchased a Whale 320 pump formy baitwell from GO2 Marine. It failed on the lastfishing trip. When I looked under the diaphramthe plastic gear was ground off.The pump has a 1 year warranty.I contacted GO2 Marine who advised me to con-tact Whale Pumps directly as I had the pumpover 30 days. Which I did. Finally after almost 2weeks the rep from Whale pumps called me andstarted talking about a clog in the line causing theproblem etc. When I told him that I was using itfor a baitwell pump he said the pump was neverdesigned for the constant running of a baitwell.I explained that I contacted Whale Pumps to seewhich pump they suggested before I bought it. Ialso said the 320 is advertised on their websiteas a baitwell pump. He then explained that theproblem is in the ʻtranslation,ʼ as their headquar-ters are in Ireland. At any rate, he said he wouldsend me a pump.... if he could, but couldn't asWhale Pumps has been sold to Brunswick andwould only be open for 2 more days! I'd warnanyone: Do not purchase any Whale Pumps.Lester Kuhn

John Ryan reported a sawfish catch to the saw-fish hotline. The following was their reply:

Hi Mr Ryan! You did good in reporting yoursawfish catch! You did all the right things bykeeping the fish in the water and not getting tooclose because those saws can do some seriousdamage (as our boat can prove – itʼs all beat upfrom when we go catch these animals to tagthem). I just wanted to clarify a few things; wasthere 24 inches of 30lb leader in addition to the 5ft of 20lb braid attached to the fish when it wasreleased? Or was that 24 inches already

wrapped around the saw when you caught it? Iʼmjust a bit confused about how much line was onthe fish when it swam away.Also, did you happen to take any photo or videoof the fish? Those are great for our files, if you didtake any and wouldnʼt mind emailing me copies.Thanks again for reporting the sawfish! Any andall information we receive is much appreciated.Cheers,Caitlin McGarigalManager, International Sawfish Encounters Program for Shark Research, U of F Museum ofNatural History

More Ethanol May Be ComingFrom the SW Florida Marine Mfg. Assn.Last month, the EPA held the only public forumon its proposal to raise the ethanol levels in ourfuel supply. It was held in the heart of corn coun-

try, and no surprise it was decidedly a one-sideddebate. Governor Jay Nixon (MO) energized hun-dreds of pro-ethanol supporters at the hearing. Of the more than 250 testifying participants, allbut a dozen were for increasing the amount ofethanol — even beyond the EPAʼs proposal!Our voices will be drowned out if we don't takeaction. We need you to join our effort and contactthe EPA. Tell them to protect boating and de-crease the amount of ethanol in our fuel supply.2,000 people in the boating industry have alreadycommented through our link. Will you join themand make this a fair debate?Boating United is the grassroots platform of therecreational boating industry. It is comprised ofboating manufacturers, businesses and support-ers who share the common goal of protecting andpromoting the industry. Take action, learn aboutthe issues and more at http://boatingunited.com

Re; Sticky Subject, Tarpon Release article Water LIFE, July editionWow.....Very disappointed in ur article....Totally missed the big picture here.Will you print my rebuttal ?If not I will have Josh do itCapt. Rhett Morris

We responded: I'd be happy to see what else you have to say.But there is no argument for the tarponʼs air blad-der drying out and sticking together. Josh who?(We received no further reply)

Frst Fish! – after just moving here! Thisblack drum from a local canal will be a mem-ory for sure! There are lots of these fish now.

Michael HellerWater Life editor

For years we were told by manatee ex-perts and by the Save the Manatee Club,that Cuba was devoid of manatees, but thatdidn’t seem right. I thought that since theseagrass was healthy there and since the in-shore species were thriving, there would bemanatees around. I also reasoned, mana-tees from Florida were travelling to Cubaand they were breeding with the Cubanmanatee stock.

In the late 1990s, when the then-newmanatee regulations were all being dis-cussed, I found local boaters and fishermenwere intentionally being misled about thestatus of the manatee and the local Char-lotte Sun newspaper was turning a blind eyeto the truth. The manatee population was notdeclining, it was just not being recorded ac-curately. Boaters were not the biggest threatto manatees, Red Tide and cold weatherwere. I worked for the Sun at that time, Iwrote about what I had found and they triedto silence me. I wrote that Cuba’s northshore was a seagrass-fertile feeding groundfor manatees and that manatees fromFlorida were not only traveling to and fromCuba but probably to and from Belize aswell. These events helped shaped my theory:

1911 newspaper report:A manatee iscaptured in Texas. 1919 newspaper report: A fishermannetted a manatee near Wilmington, NorthCarolina. Both stories suggested manatees

from Florida had travelled great distances.1933 ‘We know what’s best for you.”Eugenitics, the control of human breedingas a means of improving future genera-tions, is advocated by Julian Huxley in hispaper “The Vital Importance of Eugen-ics.” Julian’s bother, Aldus, wrote BraveNew World. They both advocated psycho-logical manipulation and conditioning ofsociety to achieve their goals.1941 – Manatee skulls are found inLouisiana and Texas. The report indicatesmanatees were known in the area.1946 Julian Huxley (See Eugenics, 1933)becomes the first Director-General of UN-ESCO (The United Nations EducationalScientific and Cultural Organization) andbegins to establish environmental policy.1964 – The Flood Control governingboard of Florida awarded a three-yearcontract to Florida Atlantic University inPalm Beach County to study using themanatee to suppress aquatic and bankweed growth in essential inland water-ways. The study concluded that manateeshave the unique potential to be effectiveand economical for aquatic weed control.1966-67 Federal Endangered Speciesand Preservation Act – The U.S Fish andWildlife Service lists the West IndianManatee as endangered. Manatees areeaten throughout the region, it notes.

1967 Graduate student Daniel“Woody” Hartman, assisted by James“Buddy” Powell conduct the first in-depthstudy of manatees in the wild at CrystalRiver. Hartman goes on to complete hisdoctoral dissertation on manatees in 1971.1968 – Hartman and Powell propose toCitrus County and the Florida Departmentof Natural Resources that Crystal River bedeclared a manatee sanctuary. The countydoes not support their proposal.1972 – Federal Marine Mammal Pro-tectionAct designates the manatee as aMarine Mammal.

December 11, 1972 newspaper headline:Apollo locked in Moon orbit. Landinglater today! Further back in the paper itsaid Daniel Hartman had learned that inthe last decade, the Crystal River manateepopulation had ‘unexpectedly exploded’from about 20 animals to over 1,000. Thestory was about a $35,000 grant Hartmanwas receiving from the Department of En-dangered Species to help find where andwhy the Florida manatee populations werechanging. Hartman was now becomingknown as the Manatee Man.

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This photo recently appeared on the internet showing GPS tagging of a manatees in Cuba

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By Mallory HerzogWater LIFE Fishing

Well that was fast, only a few moreweeks now until the kids are back inschool! All the more reason to head outand get some fishing time in! When thewater temps were up this made the bite abit tough. Even the fish find cool places tohide from the heat. Look for shaded areas,the water is slightly cooler there. Thickerand deeper mangrove areas provide refugefrom a blazing sun. Bait. Where is it? What kind and how

can you get it? Whitebait moves around.All the rain we had at the end of last monthdidn’t help.

Early morning it’s pretty easy to chumthem on the flats. Frank sells a great drybait chum you mix with water. I like tomake it the consistency of peanut butter. Italso calls in pinfish and ballyhoo. As theday gets later, look on markers and deeperareas for bait. If you don't throw a net, liveshrimp works too! Frozen lady fish ormullet chunks are also a great option forbottom feeding fish.Early morning or evening right before

sunset have been best for fishing as the rainhas helped cool things down just a bit. Ifyour fishing during the day the deep holesof the Harbor are always a great option be-cause the water is cooler. Fish flood tothese deep pockets to cool down. Theseholes have a variety of marine life swim-ming though them. Cobia, tarpon, grouper,shark and more. You can make a knockerrig (weight right before the hook) to get itdown to the bottom or free line a live baiton top. Use wire or steel-cable for shark,make sure your bait is large enough that itdoesn't get stolen by a sailcat. Looking for eating fish inshore? In

Boca Grande the snapper bite has beengreat around docks. Light tackle, 1 or 2/0circle hook, a split shot or free lined.

Chum them up with white bait cut in halfand you can easily get them into a feedingfrenzy. We had them hitting live bait on topand got our limit in an afternoon! I got one heck of a surprise while snap-

per fishing last weekend. I hooked up to akeeper gag grouper. He had a great hidingspot, I never expected to catch a grouper inmy favorite snapper hole, which is a man-grove backwater area with minimal currentflow. It was quite the fight on my 2500reel and plasma rod. Delicious too, hecame home for dinner that night.

The t arponbite is slowingdown but theyare still aroundand hungry.Crabs orthreadfins workgreat, earlymorning andevening into thenight. Juveniletarpon havealso been activein our localcanals and wa-terways. Theselittle guys areour future, re-

member to handle with care. Catching thesmaller tarpon on artificial soft plastics, jighead or weighted swim bait hook. Theyalso respond well to lures and flies. Whenusing lures, I remove the treble's and re-place them with a circle hook. This smallhook change can make a huge difference inyour hook up ratio !

You can contact Big Bully Outdoors Char-ters for a trip with Captain Andrew Herzog.Call 941-661-9880 or BigBullyOutdoors.com

What Weʼre Seeing Now

Finding this beautiful black spotted tarpon was one highlight, last month

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By Capt. Billy BartonWater LIFE Inshore

It's officially the heart of summertimeand rainy season here in Southwest Florida!Hopefully everyone's been getting theirweekly dose of vitamin Sea! I know I am,with small periods of air conditioned recu-peration and rehydration in between! Asmuch as we all love our Florida sunshineand the time we spend out playing in it, itcan take its toll on our bodies if we let it.Keeping protected and hydrated out there inthe heat, this time of year, is very important. During the month of July we experi-

enced hot and stagnant conditions, withhigher than normal temperatures and a lackof rain. Our surface water temperatures inthe bay climbed up to the 90s. This was notbeneficial to our inshore fishing, especiallymid day. Getting out on the water early inthe morning and snatching that window ofopportunity early in the day was pretty im-portant. Think like a fish for a second. Heck, for thatmatter, think like a human being! Do you feel like eating

more when you're hot and uncomfortable, or when you'rerelaxing in the cool? I know my choice.Hot water holds very little oxygen in comparison to

cooler water. In my opinion, the inshore fishing in thesummer tends to be a little more consistent when you getcloser to the Gulf. Water temperatures as you near theGulf are a little bit cooler, offering a bit more oxygen anda little higher salinity than you see up inside CharlotteHarbor. A good majority of our fish will actually migratetowards this slightly more comfortable scenario duringthe summer months. Thankfully, as we make our wayinto the month of August, we are now seeing some muchneeded rain and cloud cover. Our weather seems to becooling off a bit (in relation to July) and this has beenbeneficial to our fishing in general. The rain brings up

the oxygen levels in the bay and on ourflats. It's good for our grass and the fish upinside the bay seem to react well to it. How do the fish react to the rain? This is

a question whose answer has many vari-ables, and I get asked about this subject allthe time. This is my best, relatively shortanswer: Our moon phase, tides, and lightlevels have the largest impact on our fishingwhen combined with water temperature andsalinity. Air pressure (barometric pressure)is another important factor that you canwork into the equation if you want the bestodds at being successful on your ventures.Fish don't react to the rain as much as theydo to the drastic and sudden change in airpressure. This sudden change in air pressure could

also be described as prefrontal conditions.I'd say, hands down, those are my favorite conditions tofish in. Now I'm going to warn you, this could get a littledangerous and those two teenagers who disappeared out

Fishing the Weather Patterns

of Jupiter Inlet last month might, sadly, be an ex-ample. A beautiful, calm day (high pressure sce-nario) with a big, mean storm rolling in off the Gulf(or in their case the Atlantic) in the afternoon (ex-treme low pressure scenario). The fish can sensethis soon-to-be pressure change in their air bladdersand the short period of time prior to a big stormrollin' in can be some of the fishiest conditions pos-sible. From my experience, overcast and sprinklingis perfect, but once it starts to pour hard, the fishusually shut down. So many factors! That is what keeps things in-

teresting out there! Remember, take extra care inletting your fish go for the next couple of months,they stress easier during the summertime. Also,don't forget to show respect for our grass flats and to yourfellow boaters. Distance is ethical and sea grass is whatmakes Charlotte Harbor the beautiful place that it is.

Capt. Billy Barton owns and operates Scales-n-Tails Fishing Charters. 941- 979-6140 http://www.puntagordafishingcharter.com


CANVAS &UPHOLSTERY

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By Fishin’ FrankWater LIFE BaitshopAs a tackle shop owner

this is the old debate Ihear; Do I, or should I, stock lures thatcatch fish or should I stock lures thatcatch fishermen? If a lure would catchevery fish that swims and no one boughtit, does it still catch fish? The simple truthis, a lure has to catch fishermen first. Most lures work. That said, I had a line

of lures called KillerBaits, they were solife like, and the swimming action lookedso perfect to me that I threw that lure onand off for 12 years until one day I caughta bunch of fish with it. Then I threw it asfar as I could out into the Harbor.... forsome one else to find and try. Looking re-alistic is only half the battle, but I wasright, it caught a lot of fish, eventually, if Iforget the 12 years it took.I attended my first tackle show in

1985, it was a Dealer’s Show by a guywho is long since out of business. In thosedays it was: hit the closeout booth for thedeals first and then move on to the newstuff. That is the one thing which haschanged today - 99-percent of the close-out merchandise today is there for a rea-son. So I have learned to go to the newstuff first, ... unless there is a local-fa-vorite that did not sell out nationally,which happens often. Stuff sells like crazyhere, but not so much in the rest of the

country. So when that happens, I buy all Ican get. I had the same problems in theold days, with new products, as I do now. So many names; what's the difference

between Nuclear Chicken, ElectricChicken and Texas Chicken? No it is not anew trend in fast food, they are color pat-tern names for lures. One of the reasons togo in person to buying shows is so youcan see what the stuff really looks like. Last month was the ICAST show. It is

the biggest wholesale tackle show in thegalaxy. It took a day and a half to walkaround. We bought a number of differentlines of lures - some new ones and a cou-ple of classics. We bought some Liv-ingston Lures, they are a little on thepricey side, but they produce sounds thatattach fish. Pro shark anglers use underwater speakers to call the sharks in andthese lures do the same thing. I figure alures which makes it own sound to attractfish is very cool.We also invested in some Spool Tech

lures. Which have a built in leader, sothere is no heavy leader exposed, and theyhave replacable tails. Supposedly theselures are becoming a snook catching fa-vorite. A retractable leader is the cool part.

I picked Baker Lures for price pointand the finish on them. The Baker will bemid price and they have interesting holo-graphic color patterns and good action,which is why I think they are going to

catch fish.And we’ll be getting Savage Lures. We

bought some huge ones – 16-inch longlures for tarpon and Goliath grouper. Thislure is almost perfectly life like so add alittle scent to it and just let it swim in thetide. My advice, then, would be to hangon to the rod, when a fish hits it will be amonster. We also bought their life likeSoft Plastic Fish, from 6 inches up to themonster 16-inchers.Studying lures to picture what action it

will have has gotten easier over the years.I spend time in a swimming pool or in theHarbor, under water, watching lures falltowards the bottom, or having someoneretrieve them past me. If you can figureout where the weight of the lure is youwill be ahead of the game. Weight at thetop of it and it will tip over when falling.Weight at the bottom it will drop downflat... and round bodies will usually wob-ble going down. Another thing I discovered while under

water looking at lures was why top waterlures have different colors on the top orback of the lure than it does on the bot-tom. A top water lure floats on the surfaceso I could not understand why the part notin the water would be a different color,but when you are underwater looking up,you see three images of that one lure. Inthe middle you see the bottom of the lureand on both sides you see a mirror image

of the back or top of the lure. So you re-ally see more of the top color by reflectionthan you do the part that is actually in thewater. You gotta see it.Buying lures can be overwhel ming, but

there are 60 million people going to fishin the U.S. this year. I figure some onewill like the new lures I bought.

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WATCH FOR THE CLOSEOUTSThe shallow running, 3/8 oz, gold Hobospoon, our favorite Charlotte Harbor lure,was discontinued a few years ago. It ranshallow because it pulled from the ʻfat end.ʼ


By Captain Joe AngiusWater LIFE Estero Bay The fishing in Estero

Bay continues to get bet-ter every day. Withevening showers makingtheir way into SouthwestFlorida’s weather pattern,the mornings for fishinghave been cool and crisp.The heavy rainfall alsomeans that there is anabundant source of freshwater flushinginto Estero Bay. When salinity levelschange, along with water temperatures,the fishing drastically shifts. Having awell-rounded understanding of tide move-ment and weather shifts will increase yourchances of locating and catching fish.First and foremost, before you can start

searching for fish, you must have alivewell or bait bucket with some qualitybait. As far as the bay goes, there are mul-let and pinfish on grass flats in 1-to 3-feetof water. Pilchards are now starting togrow large enough to use as bait. To findthem I would recommend looking for agrass flat where birds and dolphins arepresent. Start chumming up the bait andwait patiently before throwing the first

cast with your net. Right now I am using a10-foot, ¼-inch mesh, cast net to get mybait. The larger net just makes it easiergetting a lot of bait at once. To find active feeding fish truly de-

pends on your location. Remember thatEstero Bay has five major river systemsthat feed into it and at each location thereare different tidal flows and salinity lev-els. Be sure to look for clean movingwater, i.e. near or around the large passes,and of course “signs of life.” If you arefishing an area with no “life,” such assting rays, mullet, or even dolphins, thereis a good chance that the redfish andsnook don’t want to be there either. Myrule of thumb for fishing the bay is to fishthe backwaters on an outgoing tide and tofish near the passes on the incoming tide.I say this because the outgoing tide means

that the tide has already come in, alongwith all of the salt dense water from theGulf of Mexico. As the tide moves out,the salt dense water will begin to leave thebackwaters. When it becomes too lowthere is a good chance most of the waterwill be brackish with a low salinity level.The incoming tide will affect salinity lev-els around the passes first, before it canreach the backwaters.The most important tip that I can give

any fisherman or fisherwoman is to taketime to truly understand the area you arefishing. Be patient and know that catchingfish is on nature’s time. Even though itcan get brutally hot or extremely frustrat-ing out on the water, it’s part of fishingand we have all been there. Enjoy thebeautiful estuary of Estero Bay, respect

the fish and wildlife by following all ofthe rules and regulations, and be mindfulof other boats.Captain Joe Angius (727) 234-3171Speakeasyfishing.com [email protected]

Estero Bay: A picture is worth a thousand words


The Fine Art of Fishing: MAKING FISH RUBS FROM YOUR CATCHBy Adam WilsonWater LIFE underwater

1. I use natural fiber papers from Thailand, i.e. mango, banana& mulberry. I purchase my paper from Blue Line supply at theend of Fruitville road in Sarasota. I am sure it can be orderedonline with ease as well.Material easier to acquire that I have used before: a canvaspainters drop cloth, discounted fabric from sewing departmentsand plain white butcher paper.

2. I use water based block printing ink from Speedball. Acrylic paint also works really well and is easier to find.

3. I use cheap bristle brushes for application, and disposablefoam brushes for color blending.

4. Not Required, but I also use Rigid foam insulation panels &sewing pins (the process can be done on a counter top, but youwon't have the fins open)

My fish are typically gutted...

Step 1. Pack all cavities with paper towels, including gut, oranus and nostrils. ( If you don't, you can get body fluids squish-ing all over your canvas when you rub the fish)

Step 2. I place the fish on a rigid foam insulation panel and drawthe outline of the fish, not including the fins. Then cut away thefoam material inside the outline so the fish will lay inside thefoam.

Step 3. Spread open the fins and use the sewing pins to keepthem open by pushing through the bony section of the fins intothe foam behind. With the foam material removed from behindthe fish, the fins should be flush with the foam.

Step 4. Completely dry the fish. I use a hairdryer and paper tow-els. Once the fins are dry, the sewing pins can be removed andthe fins should remain in the same open position.

Step 5. Put scrap pieces of paper behind all the fins to keep ex-cess ink from getting on the foam. Otherwise any excess ink onyour foam (or counter top) will be transferred onto your canvaswhen you rub out the fish.

Step 6. Mix colors and apply to the fish. Try to match the natural

colors of the fish (a photo of the freshly caughtfish will help), also keep the ink or paint frombeing to thick in any one spot. That will resultin a blobby mess with no detail. Fine detailslike a snooks stripe, or the yellow spots of aspanish mackerel are best added in by handlater. The eye and teeth are always painted in later also.

Step 7. Remove the scrap pieces of paper from behind the fins.Make sure there is no excess ink or paint anywhere other thanon the fish.

Step 8. Let the fun begin... Lay your paper, canvas, fabric etc.over the fish. Gently press the material around the fish. I startwith the tail and work forward. Rubbing against the scales willbring out a little more detail. Peel the paper off the fish and thereyou have an almost completed print. Leave to dry for an hour ortwo and then the details can be added by hand.

Step 9. Rinse off your fish and fillet for dinner. Water basedprinting ink and acrylic paint will wash off and the meat underthe skin is not affected in any way.

Tips:1. Sometimes the ink or paint will begin to dry a little on the finsbefore you can get your paper down. If so,a plastic spoon canbe used to rub them to help transfer the ink.2. I take a closeup picture of the fish eye so I can study the de-tail for hand painting it in later.3. The first print I make is always the worst for some reason.Take note on the first print. Notice areas that had too much

paint, or not enough and adjust. Lightly re-ink where neededand repeat. Multiple prints can be made of the same fish. I liketo make a "school" by printing the same fish over and over onthe same paper.4. Fine details can be added with the same printing ink or acrylicpaint. I also like to use water color pencils for extra fine detail.5. If mixing colors isn't your strong suit, ( I struggle with it everytime) appealing prints can be made of any fish using strictlyblack ink or paint.

Adam Wilson with the American Redsnapper he made the fish rub (right) from

One vermillion snapper, repeated : above and on the cover


GREAT VIZ!Far Left Two - Awesome visibility towardthe middle of July gave diver Adam Wil-son the chance to record wide angleviews of the wreck Pegasus GPS 26.33.13 82.43.415

Left: the rudder post of the wreck Bayronto.The prop was salvaged in the late 70s orearly 80s. Turned out It wasn't bronze andit wound up sitting in the worthless pileat a Sarasota scrap yard for years.

Left: I call this photo "One in a Vermillion" It is a huge schoolof grunts and my light picked up the one, lone vermillionsnapper in the middle of them.Above Left: Here is a small Goliath grouper hanging out ontop of the boilers inside the Bayronto. He had a hook andheavy leader coming out of his mouth. And yes, I cannot re-sist grabbing a hold whenever I can get close enough andhanging on for a bit.Left: This school of jacks appeared at the end of the dive andprovided enjoyable viewing during my ascent.

A colorful but rare Lionʼs Paw scallop on one of the wrecks. Cleaned up, they look like this stock photo

The top one looks like a local Spanish sardine!58 million years ago, in the Green River Region ofWyoming, seasonal torrential rains would occur in themountains and flow down the mountain sides formingwide shallow lakes in the valley, which would evapo-rate during the dry seasons, similar to what happensin Africa today. Birds probably dropped fish eggs, somillions of fish lived and died there in a short periodof time. That happened in a cycle every 20 thousandyears so layer upon layer of oil shale formed. Then areddish sandstone which contained no fish was de-posited above the oil shale by a large river. The exca-vated and preserved fossils above were for sale lastmonth at a gift shop in Colorado.

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58 Million Years Ago


During the 1970s Powell works for theU.S. Fish & Wildlife Service as a biolo-gist and manatee specialist creating mana-tee management policy.In 1974 Hartman again sets the stage toclaim the manatees are dwindling. Hewrites that hunting during the 17ththrough the 19th centuries reduced thenumber of manatees in Florida to a fewrelict groups, “they have been 'hunted,speared, clubbed and harpooned becausethe meat is said to rivel good beefsteak,"he says, but he presents no evidence ofany former great abundance. In 1974 I was living in western PalmBeach County, working in construction,digging canals and building houses atSandalfoot Cove, a new subdivision offUS 441, across from the Loxahatchee Na-tional Wildlife Preserve. The area wasnorth of the Hillsboro Canal whichdrained the Everglades into the Atlantic.The manatee weed control project of tenyears earlier happened in my backyardand by1974 manatees were still beingused occasionally, for Hyacinth control inthe area. On several occasions I had seenworkers picking them up from the end ofa canal along us 441, using a front-endloader, and redeposit them into anothercanal south of Glades Road, specificallyfor aquatic weed control. The manateescleared the hyacinth out very quickly!In the early 1980s, the United States be-came a party to the Cartagena Conventionfor the Protection and Development of theMarine Environment. Twenty one nationsin the region ratified it. The area com-prised: The marine environment of theGulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea andthe adjacent areas of the Atlantic Ocean,within 200 nautical miles off the AtlanticCoasts of the participating States, south of30 degrees north latitude. U.S. territorycovered by the Convention includes themarine environment in the waters offTexas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,and Florida, plus the United States VirginIslands and Puerto Rico. The Cartagena Convention envisioned de-tailed management protocols would soonbe developed. ``Take all appropriatemeasures to protect and preserve rare orfragile ecosystems, as well as the habitatof depleted, threatened or endangeredspecies,'' it said.It is important to note that from its incep-tion in the early 1980s, the Conventionwas focused on pollution of the environ-ment and water quality, not the animalsliving in it. But there was more going onthan met the eye. A mind set was beingcirculating that suggested the friendly-looking manatee could be useful inachieving the Convention’s goals. Thethinking was, if people could be made tolove the manatee, then preserving theplaces the manatee inhabited would be-come much easier.

In 1980 the Florida Manatee RecoveryPlan was issued. Buddy Powell was listedas one of the contributors.In the 1980s documenting fewer mana-tees meant more money for the scientistsstudying them, so a myth was circulatedthat there were only 800 manatees leftalive in Florida.In 1981 the Save the Manatee club wasformed and, at the same time, a major up-date of the Cartagena Convention hadbegun. Powell and Hartman's work musthave been influental to both causes. TheManatee Club, with the help of singerJimmy Buffet and Florida Gov BobGrahm, began getting school children(and then paying adults) to ‘adopt’ human-named manatees. A very well orchestratedplan had been set in motion.1984 - Reynolds & Ferguson reported asighting of two manatees of un-known origin 61 km northeast ofthe Dry Tortugas in the Gulf ofMexico. The report said mana-tees in the area had been "com-monly reported." No one paidmuch attention.By 1986 the United Nation’sCaribbean Regional Coordinating Unithad started to take over the work begun incartagena. The Caribbean EnvironmentalProgram (CEP) Technical Report No. 35was drafted. It was the “Regional Man-agement Plan for the West Indian Mana-tee.” The report took the old ‘we know what’sbest for everybody’ philosophy to a newlevel, saying now that the manatee shouldbe ‘used to full advantage.’ In the CEP report's third section: Shortand Long Term Recommendations, itstated: "Programmes of environmentaleducation are an integral portion of aconservation programme and should beimmediately implemented in areas wheremanatees occur. The public at all levelsmust understand the immediate andlong-term benefits of species and habitatconservation. By stimulating apprecia-tion and pride on the species, it may bepossible to induce the development of aconservation philosophy, and achieve thegoal of resource preservation. By being ahigh-profile species, the manatee mayfunction as a catalyst in bringing to-gether interested governmental and non-governmental agencies to elaboratecomprehensive conservation plans. Man-atees may be instrumental as well in theestablishment of sanctuaries and attain-ment of the overall goal of preservationof coastal ecosystems with all their asso-ciated species."Use manatees to establish sanctuaries, thatwas always the plan and now it was fi-nally on paper. I wouldn’t be surprised ifPowell or Hartman had some ink i n this.

By 1988 Belize had launched its ownpilot manatee plan which followed theprotocols of the CEP. In 1990 Belize was a test site for allthings manatee. Belize manatees weresaid to be the same as Florida manateesand so Buddy Powell moved there to man-age the Glover Reef Marine Research Sta-tion of Belize. Powell and Hartman hadstudied and tracked manatees since theearly 60s so by 1990 it must have oc-curred to him that manatees were travel-ling great distances. Reported sightingsnear the Dry Tortugas must have giventhem a clue that some manatees were trav-elling to and from Cuba and I wouldn’t besurprised if there was some conversationbetween biologists about it. Powell had tohave had some contact with Cuba too, buthe maintained the myth that manateeswere not capable of travelling very far.By 1995 biologists began insisting the

Florida manatee was now different fromthe West Indian Manatee population be-cause of a small bone in its head... and themanatees in South America, a third popu-lation, were somehow different again. Pre-viously, scientists had said the West Indianmanatees were the same animal fromFlorida to Belize, but around 1995 thatboney process in the head gave scientists awedge to split off the Florida manatees.In 1995 sharks and the Gulf Streamwere said to be natural barriers that keptmanatees around Florida quallifying theFlorida manatee for its special protection. Problem was, if manatees were goingback and forth to Cuba, that would meanthey would be interbreeding, male mana-tees are horny little devils. They would besharing chromosomes which would thenmake them all one population. The Floridamanatee count would then have to beadded to the total number of manateesfrom all over the region and the need to'save the manatees' would not be as dire.But that wasn’t going to happen. Pay-checks were at stake, research would bethreatened... so the populations stayed sci-entifically separate. The manatee partyline was still: 'We don't know what ishappening in Cuba. There aren’t manymanatees there.”But they certainly did know what wasgoing on in Cuba. Prop marked manateesseen in Cuba since the 1980s did not comefrom Cuba. Cubans had few, if any, boats.If they had boats they would have escapedfrom Cuba! Those were Florida manateesand those were smart Florida biologistsstudying them since the early 60s, thoseguys must have figured this out.

In 1995, under the framework of SPAW,(Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife)the first Regional Management Plan Forthe Manatee went into effect. In it, theconcept of 'sanctuaries' advocated byHartman and Powell in 1968, was initi-ated. Sanctuaries were places wheremanatees could go and no human in-fringement would be allowed. Land devel-opers and fishermen quickly labeled that a“No Growth No Access" approach. Themanatee was becoming a catalyst, asplanned, but it wasn’t bringing anyone to-gether.In 1996 Gina, a manatee from northFlorida, wound up in the Bahamas. Theofficial report at the time said "she ‘prob-ably’ had a ‘misadventure’ offshore fromFlorida’s west coast, ‘perhaps’ got disori-ented by a storm, eventually drifting intothe Gulf Stream south of the Florida Keys

and east onto the Great Bahama Bank.” ‘Perhaps’ ‘probably’ and a ‘misadventure’were the best explanations biologistscould come up with. Manatees were in-deed traveling and biologists were runningout of excuses. A later report on Gina gave more detail,citing manatees in the Bahamas at Bimini,Andros and Great Harbor Key. It con-cluded This provides the first documen-tation for the Florida origin of Bahamaswaifs. The movements of another mana-tee in Florida suggest a mechanism androute for manatees getting to and fromthe Bahamas.” In 1997 the Dock Study, part of the Man-atee Protection Plan, began. Claiming im-pact to seagrass growth, dock constructionpermits, issued by The Army Corps of En-gineers, became unavailable. Appreciationfor the Species began to erode even more.In 1997, at the Miami Boat Show, Iheard anecdotal stories from two Cubanboaters which again included reports ofmanatees in Cuba having propeller scars.In 1997 I also heard that the UnitedStates Federal Fish and Wildlife Servicein Belize was studying breeding manateesand was running boats up on them to testacoustic warning devices. I heard they didit in Belize because, legally, they couldn'tdo that in the United States. Then in 1998, an orphaned manateecalf named Mo that had been raised incaptivity was radio-tagged and released atCrystal River, north of the HomosassaRiver. The official report said "Mo wan-dered offshore and drifted south approxi-mately 480 km (300 mil with offshore

Cuba: One Big Big Manatee Melting Pot Cuba: One Big Big Manatee Melting Pot continued from page 5continued from page 5

For 315 miles, the northern Coast of Cuba, with itʼs expansive bays and rich inshore seagrass is,according to biologist James Powell, “ a manatee Eden.” Why does this come as a surprise?


currents and was rescued in deep water20 mi northwest of the Dry Tortugas, welloutside normal manatee distribution.” Thereport played the event down significantly.So in 1998 either the manatee biologistswere really dumb or they were reallylying. The radio transmitter on Mo wasthe clue. When they saw Mo was headedfor Cuba they pulled out all the stops toget him back. A radio track to Cuba wouldanswer the question of whether Floridamanatees were breeding with the Cubanmanatees. Subsequent reports showed thatfirst a helicopter was dispatched to findthe animal and keep watch over him untila trawler arrived on station to capture andhaul it back. Mo was then taken to Sara-sota and hidden away at Parker Aquarium.In 1999 I got a packet of letters from 3rdgrade school kids in Arcadia. ‘Mr Heller,please don't raise the speed limits, pleasedont kill manatees’ all the letters said thesame thing. I drove to the school andtalked to the principal. It turned out theteacher told her kids what to write. TheManatee Club was apparently making in-roads at Arcadia but I wasn’t giving up. In January 2000, Save the ManateeClub, et al., a national coalition of 18 en-vironmental and animal protection groups,filed two federal lawsuits demandingsweeping changes in the business-as-usualattitude of the federal and the Florida stategovernment. Named as defendants in thefirst suit in Washington were the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers, Secretary ofthe Interior Bruce Babbitt, and the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service. A second fed-eral suit in Tallahassee was filed againstthe Florida Fish and Wildlife Conserva-tion Commission. Both suits charged theagencies with failing to protect Florida'sendangered manatee population. The suit between the parties was thenquickly settled before it went to court.The pre-arraigned settlement strategy pre-cluded any appeal, so it became law. Itwas a brilliant legal tactic that has becomeknown as the 'sue and settle' defense. August 2000: Standing Watch, a boater'scoalition in SW Florida says: If the envi-ronmentalists were serious about specieshealth, each and every carcass foundwould have tissue and organs screened forpollutants and illness (not done). Water incritical habitat areas should be analyzedon a regular basis to check for pollutantsand harmful bacteria (not done). Whenanimals are determined to be water craftfatalities, extensive analysis should bedone to determine the size of the craft, thetype of craft, and what might be done toalleviate the major contributors to thesecauses (not done). Ongoing researchshould be in progress to determine howmany animals can survive on our existinggrass beds. An aggressive program shouldbe in place to find out what is killing theanimals classified as “un-determined”(not done). And, finally, research shouldbe underway to study the long-term effects

of artificially augmenting a wild popula-tion of animals due to artificial habitat al-teration — warm waters discharges frompower and sewer plants (not done). In 2001 Powell leaves his job as admin-istrator for Florida’s research program onmarine mammals and sea turtles at theFlorida Fish and Wildlife ConservationCommission to become Vice President forAquatic Programs at the Wildlife Trust.Working in collaboration with severalpartners under a license from the USTreasury Department, he begins a long-term initiative to ‘develop and strengthen’manatee research and conservation pro-grams in Cuba. How, in 2001, Powell re-ceived a Treasury Department license towork in Cuba, is, as of yet, unclear.In 2001 a publication entitled Biogeol-ogy of the West Indies, a handbook formanatee regulation with Powell and Hart-man in the Biography section, states em-phatically: The coast and the Straits ofFlorida to the south serve as geographi-cal barriers that isolate the Florida sub-species. It notes: Manatees in northeasternBrazil, at the southern end of the species'range may also be geographically isolated.By 2001 there was no longer a question.In my mind that Cuban and Florida mana-tees were interbreeding and therefore theywould have to be considered one popula-tion. ‘The next manatee count should totalall the Florida animals and all the Cubananimals together,’ I wrote in a two pagestory, accompanied by a map showing thewide range of the manatee and Mo’s re-cent track. I put question marks betweenFlorida and Cuba and between Cuba andBelize and Buddy Powell wrote me back:

Mr Heller,Wildlife Trust and the Ocean Conservancy areworking with Cuban colleagues to determine thestatus of Antillean manatees on the island. Forclarification, our Florida manatee is a geneticallyand morphologically distinct subspecies. It is notthe same as the Antillean manatee found inCuba and the rest of the Caribbean. It is proba-bly an extremely rare event for manatee popula-tions to intermingle, supported by the fact thatthe Florida manatee is genetically distinct fromother manatee populations. The manatee thatwas tracked toward the dry Tortugas was a cap-tive animal that had been released and was res-cued in deep water after wand ering in the Gulffor weeks. Interestingly, however, a CrystalRiver manatee did find its way to the Bahamas.James “Buddy” Powell, Ph.D.Director for Aquatic Programs,Wildlife TrustMy map had apparently struck a nerve. By 2010 The UN’s CEP manatee reportwas up to version No. 45 and the subjectof pollution was relegated back to p100. Then came the 2010 paper, First Reportof a Florida Manatee in Cuba by JamesA. Powell, Alvarez-Alemán, and Beck. Inthis report they did a 180-degree turnaround, reporting that 12-percent of thetagged manatees made seasonal migra-tions of over 250 miles. “The distancebetween Florida and Cuba is shortenough to make the passage plausibleand exchanges of individuals betweenFlorida and Cuba may have genetic im-plications." I was right, but it was a shallow victory.Manatees were coming and going fromCuba, but now Florida manatees were en-dangered because of some ‘genetics.’ The report casually added, a manateefound in “Isabela de Sagua,” on the northshore of Cuba, was, by gene analysis,

found to have come from Belize. The offi-cial explanation said that was a fluke. In a March 2015 You Tube interviewthat promoted new eco-tours to Cuba,Powell says “Cuba is a Marine Eden,with places untouched and pristine.”“There are few places like it in the world.”He said manatees in Cuba were thought tobe close to extinction, but biologiststalked to fishermen and found out wherethe manatees were.Wait just one minute!! Hadn’t Powellbeen around Cuba for 20 years? He justtalked to fishermen now? I don’t buy thatfor one minute. Powell also said, before2010 they had “No idea Florida manateeswould travel to Cuba.” Yet he wrote meabout that very subject in his 2001 letter. Looking at the big picture, I believe thatDr. Powell and Dr Hartman, and probablyother manatee biologists, must haveknown, at least 20 years ago, there washealthy sea grass and a healthy manateepopulation feeding on it in Cuba. Andthey must have also known, or at leaststrongly suspected, manatees were travel-ling back and forth between Florida andCuba and also between Cuba and Belize. I take no issue with Hartman or Powell’scause, or their life's work, They have donesome good things. I only question themethods they use to achieve their goals.Epilogue – As of Aug 1, 2015, the Savethe Manatee Club’s website still says:"Manatees in Cuba are a very rarespecies with alarming conservationproblems." Say it isn’t so, Buddy – tellthem it just isn’t so!

The distance betweenThe distance betweenFlorida and Cuba is shortFlorida and Cuba is short

enough to makeenough to makethe passage plausible.”the passage plausible.”

James A. “Buddy” Powell James A. “Buddy” Powell

The manateeʼs range is much wider than biologists had previously claimed. Interaction and breeding between the manatees of Belize, Cubaand Florida is more common that previously reported. Now, the new questions are whether the animals from South America move up theWindward Islands towards Puerto Rico, how far they move west and exactly where the Mexican and Coastal US manatees overlap.

By Peter WelschWater LIFE SailingYou can sign up for a local race series or

as crew via PGSCWEB.com and assure thatyou get out on the Harbor, but regular par-ticipation alone does not guarantee good re-sults. First comes equipment and crewcoordination. It takes the right strategy and tactics to

excel. The sailor’s “race track” is undefinedin the rules for 95+ percent of the distance.The right strategy can help define most ofthat. Then tactical skills are employed toprotect the strategy. Sailboat racing is afriendly “war” with right-of-way rules toprevent collisions.My strategy starts two days before the

race. I check the wind and tide forecast atPGSCWEB.COM and make a mental“map” similar to the one shown. Theweather and strategy is reviewed and con-firmed or revised the morning of the race.The objective is to map the shortest dis-tance and most favorable current and windaround the course. The current is deter-mined from both the tide chart and the winddirection and strength. The “map” shownassumes an east wind of 15 knots while thetidal ebb is maximum. The strong adverse

current on the first leg from “A” to “4”should be avoided by sailing near theshoals. Then use the beneficial current from“4” to “A” by staying away from the shoals.The shortest distance to “4” near the shoalsis on the Punta Gorda side. The prime strat-egy is to start on Port tack at the signal boat(south) side of the line. If traffic takes youaway from that then a rapid 360 degree turnto port and a port tack start at the signalboat is almost as good. These maneuvers at10 seconds to the start gun are tactical ac-tions. The worst situation is being trappedbetween two starboard tack boats and takenaway North in their wind shadow.Failing a great port tack start, work back

to the favored side with the least lost time.Wind velocity and direction always fluctu-ates. More so in variable low cloud coverand it is occasionally severe near the 41-Bridges where land obstructions play a role. The strategic message is to avoid being

trapped between marker “4” and other boatswithin 5-10 boat lengths of the rounding of“4”. Just ask skippers who have been stuckin traffic there! So time the frequency of ad-verse shifts and over stand the mark on thelast tack to the rounding.From “4” to “A” stay centered in the

Harbor and use the tidal current boost. Youshould also jibe to the best downwind anglewith the fluctuations. Best speed may be asmuch as 15 degrees away from downwind. The optimum for your boat should be de-

termined on a non race day via GPS set toVMG data. The worst case is to allow otherboats to block your wind from as much as15 boat lengths back. Rig the boat and trainthe crew to jibe rapidly and almost no speedwill be lost in the maneuver and your ad-vantage will be preserved.It is very rare that one person can man-

age strategy and tactics alone. The worstcase may be for the skipper on the helm toattempt it while leaving the crew in thedark. The best solution is to have one crewwho can embrace the “math” of strategyand tactics and advise the skipper. Theworst solution is to have every crew mem-ber voice a different solution and fail totrim sails or keep good watch for windgusts and collisions. Get great tutorials by reading Position-

ing- the Logic of Sailboat Racing by Dr.Stewart H Walker.Peter Welsch can be reached at :[email protected]

A Sail Racerʼs StrategyJust how does a big storm like a Hurri-

cane in the Gulf affect the fishing? Obvi-ously, common sense would dictate thatyou don't go out in a boat in dangerouswind and sea conditions. With that said,I've noticed over the years that changingatmospheric conditions such as a movingbarometer will often get fish biting. I'veseen many days when fish just seem toknow that a storm is brewing, and it's as ifthey just can't get enough to eat. Whatmay play into this fact is the falling baro-metric pressure that often takes effectahead of approaching tropical weathersystems. It really is amazing to me justhow intensely wildlife is influenced by dra-matic changes in barometric pressures.For instance, I remember one day in par-ticular we were anchored down aboutthree miles out in the Gulf. We were fish-ing with live shiners for bait. The Spanishmackerel were on the surface feeding andbasically worked up into frenzy. Nosooner than we would cast a shiner outbehind the boat then we would be hookedup. Anyway, it was in November and asmall front line passed over us and thewind swung around out of the north. It wasas if a giant switch was thrown to off. Wetried throwing handfuls of live shiners outbehind the boat to get them feeding again- nothing. The mackerel were still there,they just quite feeding.

On the other hand I can't tell you howmany times I've experienced just the op-posite happen. We're anchored over a fa-vorite ledge or rock bottom where I justknew there was grouper and snapper. Aquick change in wind direction from anapproaching cold front or passing thun-derstorm pushed a breeze in our faces.Evidently not only was the wind directionaffected, so was the movement of thebarometric pressure. Like magic, the fishstarted biting like crazy. I always feel likea good time to get out and do some fishingis after a stormy area clears out of theGulf. The barometer should be on the riseand the fish should be hungry.

A few years back we had a majorstorm churn up the Gulf pretty good. Thestorm pushed a bunch of gag grouper ontosome of the local limestone ledges justwest of area beaches. These were biggrouper, and they were hungry too. If I re-call correctly, there were reports all up anddown the coast of excellent grouper fish-ing. Where'd the fish come from? I'm re-ally not sure. It was obvious that thepassing storm displaced them from eitherdeeper water, or from another area alto-gether.

Capt. Dave Pinkham, 1998


Fishing the Barometer

By Capt. Chuck EichnerWater LIFE Charlotte Harbor InshoreI grew up fishing the Chesapeake Bay

as a young lad. At that time they calledthe bay boats “party boats.” My fatherwas responsible for putting together aparty of 6 men for a day of fishing, whichI think is where the word “party” camefrom. It always seemed like a party to mewhen we fished the Chesapeake with 5men and a boy all reeling in fish and hav-ing a good time.On the Gulf of Mexico they call them

charter boats but the end result is probablyjust the same! Recently, I joined up withMike Wright a relatively new Punta Gordaresident for a day offshore fishing on hisbeautiful Blue Wave boat. We stackedand packed the boat the day before withice, frozen bait, rods, food and tackle andan hour before daybreak the next morningwe left the dock.Navigating Charlotte Harbor to Boca

Grande Pass is not too difficult if youknow where the unlighted buoy markersare, otherwise you better wait until day-break. Traveling in darkness becomes abit of a time warp and then before youknow it, you are getting set up to fish. Wewere positioned over a public reef inabout 88 feet of water, anchor down,chum box deployed and chunking baitfish. Snapper was our goal and quickly a

very niceyellowtailsnapper cameaboard as didseveral oth-ers as the sunrose to oureast. Stillplenty cooloutside theplan was tocatch a limitof snappers, then red grouper and be homearound 2:00 pm. As it turned out, thesnappers were moody and would bite inspurts despite them eating our chumnearly out of our hands! Fifteen poundfluorocarbon leader, size 2 hooks, 10-pound monofilament line and all the trickswe could muster and these fish were justtoo smart or too full to take our carefullypresented baits. Around 11:00 am we made a signifi-

cant move to an area I call the “PromisedLand.” It is a large area that I discoveredto be consistent grouper territory. Only in72 feet of water on hard bottom, wedropped bottom rigs and jigs with frozensardines. Four rods buckled over and thegame was on! Many of these fish werelegal over the 20-inch limit, but we werecautious to not keep too many as I prom-ised bigger fish. For security we put ahandful of 6 pound groupers in the boxand dropped the others overboard andcontinued fishing. Soon thereafter fear setin for us as the bite quit. Letting fish goand then having a long dry spell withplans to be home at 2:00 pm meant thefish box would not look too impressive. Mike loves to fish the butterfly jig. He

jigs it frequently while the rest of us driftbait and he caught a few for sure, but fo-cused on dead bait drifting when the bitewas good. So out comes the old butterflyjigging spoon in the middle of a fishlessdrought and wham! A big fire-truck sizegrouper makes it to boatside and friendRay quickly ties on a jigging spoon andwham! Another big fish is coming fromthe same area as the smaller ones earlierin the day. I continued to drift a 4 oz Spro

bucktail jig tipped with asardine and Mike and Raycontinued to drag monstersto the side of the boat. Justtheir lucky day I told my-self and then standing nextme was Brian gruntingaway as he winched in asuper fat red! Brian hadbeen fishing a sardinetipped jig too so his luckwas there, but not mine. Brian bangs an-other as did the other boys but the ol’ cap-tain was quietly sucking it in. Finally Iblurted out “what the heck” to Brian as agrouper swatted his Spro jig three timesbefore getting stuck. What is going onand under his breath he murmured, takethe dead bait off!With that I deployed my bucktail jig

and one or two vertical jerks and I wasconnected! Imagine that, jigs and spoonsoutfishing frozen sardines and the fish

were 2-3 times as big! Now this was aparty with all of us swinging our rodshigh, reeling in and dropping and stinginga ton of red grouper with most being letgo at this point. There were high fives,pictures snapping and smiles so big youwould have thought the celebrity was thepresident! With a memory to last a lifetime for all of us, I think it is fair to saytoday we were fishing on a party boat!

Capt. Chuck Eichner operates Action FlatsBackcountry Charters and can be reached at941-628-8040


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It was unusual for hikers to be on the trails inthe wildlife area during the middle of the day inthe extremely hot and humid conditions so anFWC officer started to track the individuals.There were two young males running throughthe pasture land heading north. A short timelater both subjects emerged from the preserveand ran to their vehicle with a brown bag. Thebag contained mushrooms and weighed overone pound. The subjects were issued citationsfor removing plants/vegetation from the wildlifeenvironmental area, which is a misdemeanor.

Officers responded to assist the CountySheriffʼs Office in locating two young womenwho were missing from the Blackwater StatePark. The officers located the two women justsouth of the park boundary. The women weretubing and had passed the take-out point.They spent the night on a sandbar and at-tempted to walk back towards the park thenext morning. The women were shaken upfro m their ordeal, but unharmed.

The operator of the vessel advised therewere swimmers in trouble on the other side ofan anchored barge on the Inter-costal Water-way, east side of the Longboat Pass Bridge.There were individuals on the barge attempt-ing to throw a line to the two swimmers whowere being dragged out of the pass in the tidalcurrent. The swimmers were hanging onto thefloating debris boom. The current was unusu-ally strong that day, accelerating to 5-6 mphunder the bridge. Both swimmers were wear-ing life jackets but the current was still pullingthem under. They were unable to hang ontothe rope that was being thrown to them. AnFWC officer pulled alongside the barge andput his bow next to the swimmers. He left themotors in reverse to hold the vessel stationaryagainst the current and ran to the bow wherehe was able to grab the distressed swimmersand pull them into his vessel. The swimmerswere safely returned to shore.

Officers assisted the Sheriffʼs Department,and U. S. Coast Guard with a search on theBlackwater River for eight stranded tubers re-ported stuck at a large log jam. Due to lowwater levels in the river, rescue personnelwere unable to use vessels to reach the sub-jects. A USCG helicopter responded and lo-cated the subjects. Officers used coordinatesprovided by USCG to get a patrol vehicle tothe subjects to escort them from the river.

Officers working plain clothes enforcementalong the Sanibel causeway observed severalyoung men as they were fighting a tarpon fromshore. After several minutes they managed toget it to the beach. Three of the peoplewalked out to the water and began picking the120-pound tarpon out of the water for photo-graphs. The officers stopped them from doingany more harm to the fish. The men admittedto knowing better.

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which uses GPS-based control to trim up ordown motion automatically in accordance withspeed and engine rpm.

Officers conducted surveillance and saw aman fishing with a pole at the end of a localdock. The man stopped fishing and went toone end of the dock where he pulled a gill netto check for fish. The officers spoke to somefishermen that had just left the dock. The an-glers stated that the man and his wife had setthe nets and had been fishing there for fourdays. Numerous blue crabs, spadefish, pufferfish and horseshoe crabs were pulled from theentangling nets. One illegal trap was alsopulled that the couple had been using. The twowere placed under arrest for multiple counts offelony net and trap violations and booked intojail.

FWC Officers on land patrol near the Withla-coochee River noticed a truck and airboattrailer in the parking lot. They waited for theboat to return in order to do a safety and re-

source inspection. The two persons on boardwere found to have a small hatchling alligatorin the boat. The operator explained that he hadcaught the hatchling to show his son. How-ever, he could not explain why there was alsoa 7-foot alligator hidden in the front compart-ment of the boat. The two subjects werecharged.

The FWC received information that a manwas operating an illegal charter business with-out the proper licenses. The vessel pulled inwith three males on board. One of the subjectsfillet a dolphin and then exchanged what ap-peared to be a significant amount of moneywith one of the two men on the vessel. The of-ficer approached the two men and obtainedsworn statements attesting that they contactedthe subject after booking a fishing charter online. The two men stated that they paid the“captain” $800 for a day long charter. A recordscheck revealed that the subject did not have acharter fishing license and he was cited.

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On The Line By Capt. Ron BlagoWater LIFE Senior StaffHere it is the middle of summer with daily tempera-

tures in the mid 90s and the humidity just about the same.With weather like this I tend to conserve energy by justhanging around the house which probably explains why Ijust received a record high electric bill for last month.Even with my new level of laziness I still feel a need tolet you people read about some of the things I'm workingon for the rest of the year.The State legislature finally passed a budget for the

next fiscal year, a record $78 billion dollars. The goodnews is that there is an appropriation of $2.5 million dol-lars to be used for the Stump Pass project. This will covera big chunk of the cost which will lower the burden onlocal taxpayers. The project, with the jetty, is still onschedule to start in November this year. No one seems toknow if there will be a walkway on top of the new jettyAlso on the local front, there seems to be a lot of blow

back about the parking meters at Englewood Beach.These are the second-generation machines that were putin two years ago because the old ones were falling apart.A lot of people are saying that half the time the machinesare not working and the other half of the time they arenot working properly. The way it is supposed to work isyou drive into a parking stop that has a 3 digit numberpainted on it, you then go to the parking kiosk and standin line to use the machine. When it’s your turn, the firstthing the machine wants to know is what is your parkingspace number. If you forget the number or you are atourist that didn't know about the number, you have to getout of line and go back to your parking spot to get it andstart over again. When you finally get up to the machineyou find that a lot of time it won't make change or let you

swipe your creditcard. The system just doesn't work asintended but the county say's that they bring in $100,000a year from Englewood Beach parking. They also reportthat they sold 2,700 annual parking passes over the same

period and I don't know if some of that money is includedin the $100,000. Because the system is so frustrating it isestimated that at least 50% of the people don't pay orunder pay for their parking. Here is the part I find inter-esting, if you don't pay; what are the chances you will geta parking ticket ? Well, the Sheriff Department reportsthat they have given out a grand total of 30 tickets for il-legal parking at Englewood Beach this year.Another source of local frustration is the Edgewater

Drive road project which has recently started. Edgewateris a very popular short cut for people traveling betweenEnglewood and Port Charlotte. It bypasses all the heavytraffic on US.41. The project also included rebuilding twobridges. This will shut the road down for a considerableperiod of time. The project is scheduled to finish some-time in 2017. Expect much more heavy congestion andtime delays during the next upcoming tourist seasons.The latest Boating Accident Report is out. In 2014

there were 634 boating accident in Florida which resultedin 73 fatalities. Way too high. Here is something to thinkabout: In 2014 there were more humans killed in boats(73) than manatees killed by boats(68). Maybe someoneshould look into that.

You can reach Capt. Ron at [email protected]

The handicapped accessible walkway at the (then) justopened Stump Pass Beach park in 2001 was magnificent. Itlead from the parking lot right down to the waterʼs edge. Itlasted about one month, then the weather took it! Whatwere they thinking?

Marion Ave in Punta Gorda, 2001, before new storm drainswere installed. We are still waiting for a real test.


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By Betty StauglerWater LIFE/Sea GrantNOAA just released their

findings for a study where theyevaluated the economics of independent marine recre-ational fishing bait and tackle retail stores. The resultsare in 2013 dollars and are reported for the U.S. and byfederal fishery management geographic regions. Thestudy focused on independently owned small businessesthat sell bait and tackle to salt-water anglers in coastal andnear coastal communities lo-cated in states on the Atlantic,Gulf of Mexico, Pacific coast,Alaska, and Hawaii. NOAAtargeted sma ll businesses be-cause they would be more dis-proportionately affected byregional fisheries managementactions as a result of theirgreater dependence on localfisheries; also because this sec-tor in previous studies has beenlargely overshadowed by largernational and regional chains.The survey was conducted by sending bait and tackle

retail establishments a survey by mail in June 2014. Sec-ond and Third mailings occurred through October 2014.The overall response rate at the end of the third mailingwas 27%. The results of the surveys were used to deter-mine the direct sales, income, and employment impactsassociated with retail sales of marine bait and tackle incoastal communities. The analysis used IMPLAN, aninput-output model that is commonly used by economistsin economic analyses.

The final report breaks down data into two distinctgroups. The first group is bait and tackle stores that caterexclusively to recreational anglers. The second groupcomprises other stores that returned usable surveys andincludes sporting goods stores, convenience stores, mari-nas, general retail stores, and hardware stores. Findingsfor these two groups are displayed in the table below forthe South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico regions. The re-sults for other regions are aggregated and displayed as

overall totals. From the final report some key terms are defined:�� Sales are the gross value of sales by business

within the economic region. �� Income includes personal income (wages and

salaries) and income from self-employment.�� Employment is specified on the basis of full-

and part-time jobs.Now for the numbers…extrapolating the 27% of sur-

veys returned up to the total eligible population of 3,514

independent bait and tackle shops in U.S coastal commu-nities, the contributions to the U.S. economy are $2.3 bil-lion in total sales impacts, $800 million in incomeimpacts; and over 16,000 jobs, of which 7,800 are baitand tackle store jobs. These contributions were the resultof $854 million in sales of saltwater recreational fishingbait and tackle. A few other fast facts just for the Gulf of Mexico re-

gion that were identified in the report include:�� Saltwater recreational fisheries that generated

the greatest sales of bait and tackle were 1) Red or blackdrum/sea trout; 2) Redsnapper/Grouper; 3)Spanish mackerel; fol-lowed by a close 4)Dolphin/Cobia/Wahoo.

�� Retail storeowner opinions on howoutside factors affectedtheir sales were: Nega-tive affects 1) Fisheryseasonal closures; 2)Fisheries regulations;and 3) Other govern-ment regulations. Pos-itive affects 1)Weather; 2) Status of

economy; and 3) Changes in fish stock status.�� Top Industries likely to be supported by store

operational expenses include wholesale trade, commer-cial fishing, maintenance and repair of nonresidentialstructures, and employment services.

�� Top industries likely to be supported by storeemployee spending are food services and drinking places,offices of physicians, private hospitals, and retail stores. For more information visit

http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/economics

The Economic Impact of Bait and Tackle Shops

Region Total Sales Bait & Tackle Sales Income Jobs(millions) (millions)* (millions) (millions)

New England Total $200 $93.7 $78.9 1,256Mid Atlantic Total $383.5 $180.5 $137.2 2,578South Atlantic Bait & Tackle shops $225 $83.9 1,733

Other stores $163.8 $60.3 1,159Total $389 $186 $144 2,892

Gulf of Mexico Bait & Tackle shops $409 $112 2,902Other stores $192 $48.2 1,495Total $601 $266 $160 4,402

West Coast Total $208.7 $96.5 $70.1 1,67Alaska Total $44.3 $27.3 $15.9 319Hawaii Total $38.1 $22.6 $19 285


By Capt. David StephensWater LIFE HarborThis last week has been crazy for me. I am trying to

prepare to go on vacation. On top of that I am trying toget my charters done. That’s not to hard, it’s the gettingeverything packed up that is the tough part. Also duringthis time I had a great friend of mine that was going to beback in Florida from Tennessee. Well I only get thechance to see him and his family once a year for a fewdays, so I made my mind up that I was going to spend acouple days on the water with them. We spoke on the phone a week or so before they were

to arrive, making plans for a couple days on the water.Working out the details, like what we were going to tar-get and where to meet and all the other things. Honestly Ithink I was as excited as he was. Its not very often I get tospend the day fishing with out any pressure. Luckily for me we weren’t going to target tarpon, or

big snook. It was going to be one of them what-ever-biteskind of fishing trips. We spoke the day before and de-cided to meet at 6 am at Ponce Park. We figured wewould get out before it got too hot. On the first day, we left out to catch bait. After loading

the live well we went to a sunk boat to try for some snap-per. We managed to put a few nice snapper on the boat. Itold Alan sometimes Cobia hang out here too, and Ishould rig one of the rods for a bigger fish, but I didn’thave time to get that done. As soon as we were done talking about that, we had a

15-pound cobia behind the boat. I know in the cobiaworld that’s small, but the real problem was we weresnapper fishing. Still, we successfully landed that fish on10-pound test line and a #4 hook.

By then, the tide was slack so we decided to make arun and headed for the mangroves to do some snook fish-ing. Soon tide was running out very well and we man-aged to catch some decent snook and some more snapper. After lunch we decided to call it. It was getting hot,

and we were going to hit the water again tomorrow.The next day we did pretty much the same thing as

we did the day before. The only difference was we could-

n’t get nothing going on the sunk boat. But we decided tohang out there anyway and wait for the tide to change.Then, when the tide began to run out, we pulled up andhit the mangroves. I could tell when we got to our first spot, this day was

going to be different. We chummed the first spot and thefish were way more aggressive. Four hours after leavingthe sunk boat we had only fished two more spots. Alanlooked at me at the end of the day and said, man we musthave caught 80 snook today. I didn’t want to disappointhim and tell him it was only 79, so I kept that to myself. I didn’t mention his better half Katie spanked him

pretty good. It was just one of those days I couldn’t doanything wrong, not counting fishing the sunk wreck. Wealso caught 25 nice snapper and some really good trout.Now the biggest problem that I am going to have is tryingto do it again next year.

If you would like to experience some of Charlotte Harborsbest fishing give me a call or send me an email. All of our char-ters are private and customized to fit you and your partiesneeds. Capt. Dave Stephenswww.backbayxtremes.com 941-916-5769

Next Year This Will Be Hard To Beat

Charlotte HarborFrank at Fishin’ Franks941- 625-3888August is confusing because of the rain we had at the

end of July. The question I get is, is the fresh water goingto ruin the fishing? It can, but not exactly. If we just getrain and no clouds it can hurt fishing but because of theamount of clouds we had the fishing got better.The Peace River was just up at 6 feet. The Myakka is

good too, fishing is good. When the cloud cover holds,the water temperatures will drop and that drop is whatmakes the fishing get better. The salt water fish have noproblem with river water, but all fish have a problemwith hot water. Rain could slow fishing but the cloudcover is really most important so it’s looking like we areoff to a really good start for August, for fishing.Pompano have been around and Hog Island is a big-

gie. Great stories on the south end of the Cutoff and at theMyakka, with more from Cape Haze and a few reportsfrom along the beaches. Too much surf to really know,

but I think theyare there.Snook is get-

ting better and bet-ter and better andbetter and it’smost betterest atRedfish and Cap-tiva Pass. Bothpasses havetremendous snook

populations now. Theeast side and the WestWall are good onsnook. The west pickedup the most, maybe be-cause of the run offfrom river with lots offood in it.Redfish are as scat-

tered as they were.Lemon Bay has thickredfish both east andwest. The primary baithad been shrimp or pieces of pinfish. Smaller like 2inches are ok but if they are bigger cut them up.Spanish mackerel have been around Cape Haze

and all the way up to the US-41 Bridge. They arethickest to the south. All the passes have Spanishtoo. Tarpon continues to be pretty good. If you arefishing the deep holes in the Harbor we guarantee asmany catfish as you want. To get by the cats, guysare switching to artificials. The new Savage or theold DOA lures are it. Tarpon are also in the Myakka, atBoca Pass, Punta Rassa and, at dark, in the Caloosa-hatchee and the Peace Rivers. Local canals have the 2- to4-foot tarpon with one or two 150-pounders mixed in, butthey are slow. The Rattle Trap 1/4 or the DOA Terror-eyes are the lures for tarpon in the canals.Trolling those rattletraps in South Gulf Cove, inside

the lock, the tarpon and the snook are just way more thanthey should be back there.The summertime surprise is sea trout. This has to be

the crazycat year ever. In November and December youcouldn’t find any sea trout and now, anywhere you lookin the Harbor you are likely to find sea trout. Go figure!


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Dustin Smith says ʻplenty of monster snook on the west wall! Withall the pods of bait in the harbor chumming isn't a problem and mygirlfriend and I have a blast watching them explode on the bait.My ruler ends at 38-inches and this big female was over that!ʼ The fish was safely released.

Trout just wonʼt quit thisyear. Big trout!

Cobia actually should get alittle better in August. Most ofJuly had a lot of short cobiacaught and released. Those fishgrow quickly, they will be legalin August. The Alligator CreekReef, Cape Haze Reef, CapeHaze, the 20-foot Hole, thecobia are maintaining.Mangrove snapper are sur-

prising a lot of people. It seemslike it’s the 1980s at the Beach Complex - with16-inch snapper being caught. There are also great numbers and big fish at

the US-41 Bridge, at the Placida Trestle, at theCape Haze Reef. Snapper fishing in August isgoing to make for another great month.Tripletail is another one. This is gonna’ be

the first year I can remember when we have hadtripletail in August. From 41-Bridge to the nearGulf there have been great stories of tripletail –fish over 20-inches are being caught. Inside theHarbor seems to be the best place. Usuallytripletail are here with the stone crabs in Marchand done by June but hey, we’ll take it. It’s apleasant, unexpected, surprise.We have schools of black drum, schools

and schools of them. You see fish by the sur-face, but they are bottom to top - big fish, andlots of them! All I can say is: Don’t fish the fishat the top! Fish the fish at the bottom. Fish theones you don’t see, and hang on!

Jim at Fishermen’s Edge 697-7595Most of the fishing has been relegated to

near shore or in the passes with hardly any off-shore action. It’s been really rough, but guys gotinto some mangrove and yellowtail snapperand grouper, but not a lot of reports are comingin. There have been lots of mangs close-in andon structure throughout the Bay. Guys are

catching redfish in Lemon Bay, fish above theslot, you have to find the right ones. Up inWhidden Creek, Gulps are working pretty goodon snook. In the Bay and in the passes, insidethe back of Gasparilla Sound, at Boca Grandeand at the trestle, snook are doing OK. Thereare good ones to be caught by the Boca Grandebridge if you try drifting a live mullet.Tarpon that are biting are in the Pass. The

guys who went up the Harbor didn’t find any.You can try drifting a crab on the outgoing, butit’s hard to get a crab now. Since once the char-ters stop the guys who bring me the crabs goaway. They are catching tarpon on squirrel fishtoo, if you have the right tide. Cobia are aroundtoo, smaller fish in the lower 30-inch range.They are catching them on live bait. Pinfishwith the dorsal fin cut off are good right now.

SNOOK In the Passes and nearthe ICW

SNAPPER Under docks andunder the mangroves

BLACK DRUM area canals,big schools in the Harbor

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FISHING FISHINGRIGHT NOW:RIGHT NOW:

Great!Great!

The BIG-4The BIG-4 Fish to expect in Fish to expect in AugustAugust

SEA TROUT All over the Har-bor north to south - go figure!

Gulf Gulf TempsTemps

are mid 80sare mid 80sThe Harbor isThe Harbor is

3- or 4-degrees3- or 4-degreeswarmerwarmer

Mike Carr was not especially shocked when his rodbent violently as soon as the bait hit the bottom.He believed in short order a shark would snap hisline, a low test line and a small jig on a 20 poundleader. He tightened the drag knowing he would ei-ther snap off or stand a chance at bringing it to thesurface. Mike maneuvered the fish up from the 200foot depth. It was a 35 pound cubera snapper!

Last month Capt. Joe Millerʼs guys saw plenty of action on his Fish Galore Offshore charters, out of Venice Inlet. Clockwise from top left the fish are: snowy grouper, trumpetfish, trigger fish,red grouper, blackfin tuna and a gag grouper.

The Rainhas cooledthings off

Happy Campers with redfish and snook from a charter with Capt. Billy Barton


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