What’s next? Not too many weeks ago a porta-pottie actually flew by my house at easily over a hundred miles per hour ending up in my neighbor’s tree 10 steps from his mostly glass front door. The past holiday week of 80 degree weather suddenly turned Arctic cold in time for Santa. Talk ...

Put away your snook rods and break out the ice fishing gear for the predicted Christmas weekend big freeze, something a temperature sensitive snook or die-hard angler never wants to hear. With daytime temperatures dropping into the 50s, made seemingly colder by cloudy skies and a steady north ...

Taking a look at today’s FWC Red Tide Map shows most areas along our coast and inshore to be problem free with some patches reported off Boca Grande as well as some high concentrations still lingering around Sarasota. Red tide isn’t the only water problem to worry about locally as who knows ...

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 ...

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 own, ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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, ...

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, ...

Here’s hoping that everyone is safe, your roof intact or at least tarped, and the boat is still where you put it before the storm. If you survived with little damage, consider helping others less fortunate around you especially the senior population. For the last decade or so I’ve watched ...