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Use common sense precautions in local waters for now

As if a record breaking, home wrecking, high powered hurricane wasn’t enough, we now have high concentrations of red tide that blanket our coastline with Lee County waters getting some of the highest concentrations along with reported fish kills. Other issues like my friends Matlacha canal ...

Holiday season treats

What’s better than the house-filling smell of a slow roasting Thanksgiving turkey and a freshly cut holiday tree? For me not a whole lot but for others the odor of freshly caught Gulf red snapper cooking under the broiler or frying in the skillet really gets them going. If you want your ...

Tarpon still lurking about

Don’t put away your tarpon sticks just yet because coastal as well as central Charlotte Harbor fish are a still eating with birds and bait schools your clues, especially in the harbor. With a prolonged cold front surely in the near future, it will all change rapidly sending migrating tarpon ...

Fishing for the freshwater king — the musky

Recently I took a trip to Tennessee to deal with a family health emergency and while there found that I had some time to kill. Always trying to make lemonade from life’s sometimes sour hurricane lemons, I made a call to a nationally known but local guide and found that due to client health ...

What to do if you catch a bird instead of a fish

(Editor’s note: Capt. Tunison was unable to write his column this week. The following column was published previously in The Breeze.) A new record was accidentally set aboard my boat this past week. Ms. Jane T., now and forever known by her husband as Birdy T., of Toronto, Canada, ...

Some of life’s simple pleasures are true gifts

Surviving an incredibly intense -- and for the thousands who lost everything, heartbreaking -- weather event like Ian makes life’s simple things simply better. Right now the mullet in my canal are rocketing out of the water in great numbers and, of course, my northern visitors quickly ask, ...