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EcoWatch: Earth Day 2026: A year for concern
April 16, 2026
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our own greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.”
Stephen Hawkin…
SW Florida Fishing: Big snook and it’s tarpon time…
April 16, 2026
BY CAPT. JOE LECLAIR
Here in Boca Grande fishing for tarpon takes center stage in April. For the next few months, the big silver monsters roll into town like they own it. What’s fun about it is s…
Ask A Doc: The AI at the Boca Grande Health Clinic is about dictation, not medicine
April 9, 2026
BY DR. BRET KUEBER, M.D.
If you’ve been to the Boca Grande Health Clinic recently, you may have noticed that your physician is looking at you a bit more and at the computer a bit less.
That’s…
Special time: Drone spoons, windy days and changing conditions
April 9, 2026
Spring fishing is peaking and our weather will continue to heat up. This is the short window to enjoy our transitional fishing. It was a colder winter and the fish are hungry. Summer’s heat will ove…
SW Florida Fishing: Fish and … birds?
April 9, 2026
BY CAPT. JOE LECLAIR
Over the last few weeks, loads and loads of people have come to paradise hoping for warmer weather and excited to go fishing. My job is simple, fulfilling everyone’s dreams o…
EcoWatch: The Endangered Species Act is safe for now
April 9, 2026
We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.
Loretta Lynch, a former U.S. Attorney General, in a widely attribut…
EcoWatch: Crows, Hymns and a changing world
April 2, 2026
Last year EcoWatch’s Easter column, “Hallelujahs and OMGs,” featured environmental problems that were strangling the environment. Now, looking back on the problems listed, it was no surprise that th…
SW Florida Fishing: The BIG fish are biting …
April 2, 2026
Besides this regular size flounder caught by Swifty Morris, next has Jeff Koziol with a big bronze redfish and William Alexander with a big one too.
Second row has John Wallace caught and release…
History: No pirates, no gold, but lots of bugs in the selling of Gasparilla
March 26, 2026
Above, The Charlotte Harbor & Northern Railway used a bloody pirate as their main brochure for the island in its early days. Boca Grande Historical Society Archives
BY JIM BLAHA, BOCA GRANDE…
Van Hubbard: Mackerel, both Spanish and king, best in icy coolers
March 26, 2026
March leads us into our spring season. We did enjoy some spring-like weather last month, but each one should be weaker now. Spring has officially arrived, and I’m excited about all the fishing optio…







