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Women’s sports have never been more popular with spectators. WNBA franchise valuations are soaring. The most recent March Madness and Winter Olympics both broke viewership records for women’s events. Participation among younger girls has surged in recent years — fueled by the visibility ...

Gag grouper are resting easier today knowing they aren’t headed for local dinner tables for the remainder of the year. Thursdays FWC closure on this hard-fighting and tasty grouper will allow you to concentrate on red snapper before it closes on Oct. 4, again reopening on the 9th through the ...

Can’t get enough of the big silver stuff? Never fear, the gangs still here and looking to eat weather permitting all the way into December before heading south, leaving their resident cousins behind to winter over. Tarpon are still scattered throughout the area using the passes along ...

Now is the time for some of the best fishing of the year and is often overlooked in Southwest Florida. With school back in session, summer vacations over and our northern friends out of state, this may be the time you will find the least number of anglers and boat traffic on the water. ...