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Outdoors July 28, 2008  RSS feed
Fishing Report, Northeast Florida
     Fishing has been good from the inshore fishing to near shore. Inshore fishing has been good throwing rapala skitter walks top water baits early and late in the day. Later in the morning we have been catching reds and flounder on berkley gulp new penny. We have been rigging the gulp on 1/4 ounce sure catch jigs.
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Swamped! A review of Anthony Wilson's "Shadow and Shelter" and an interview with the author
     Most readers of this newspaper live in the counties of northern Florida to the east of Jacksonville: Duval, Baker, Columbia, Alachua, Bradford, Suwannee, Hamilton . . . and of course, the counties of southeast Georgia. In these places-in places like Moniac, Taylor, Homerville, Mayo, Fargo-the swamp greets us on all sides, even with the vast pine forests surrounding us, even with modern construction and multi-lane roadways, we're still owned it often seems by the dusky, wet, places we know as swamps.
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Lobster seasons about to begin
     Recreational and commercial harvest seasons for spiny lobster in Florida are set to reopen soon. The special two-day spiny lobster sport season comes first, on July 30 and 31 this year, followed by the regular lobster season, which begins on Aug. 6 and extends through March 31.
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Summit on Florida’s wildlife and climate change
     Florida’s wildlife stands at the forefront of the battle against the effects of climate change. But they don’t stand alone. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and other state and federal agencies and environmental groups are bracing to fight for their protection, management and adaptation.
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Fishing the Amazon
     I was sitting in my favorite chair watching television and only vaguely listening to my wife in the background when the epiphany struck. There on the screen was a commercial for peacock bass fishing in the Amazon.
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