Columns
CAPT. VAN HUBBARD: It’s prime time tarpon season. Please don’t forget our heritage
April 30, 2026
May is the launch of our formal tarpon season. The fish have been here, but the mob is coming now. We will enjoy some good fishing if we can stay out of each other’s way. Please respect the tarpon…
EcoWatch: Counting the effect of population growth
April 30, 2026
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people in the world, the value of life not only declines…
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…






