Tag: Boca Grande

A trip to Belize to study tarpon … are you in?

May 22, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

BY ADAM MARTON, THE FIELDWORKERS CLUB This August a small group of anglers from all over the USA will be traveling to the Caribbean to participate in the Belize Tarpon Tagging Expedition, a...

Have some fun and help out a local captain by fishing the ‘Tito’

May 22, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

One of Boca Grande’s charter captains, Capt. Jimmy Robertson, is in need of some good energy and prayers from the community as he faces stage 4 liver cancer and issues from a recent fall. Jimmy...

Another stranded sea turtle found on island beaches

May 22, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

Another dead sea turtle has been found on a local beach, this time at the very northern tip of the island. According to one sea turtle patroller, Marilyn Googins, she found it at the “northern...

Gasparilla Island Kids Classic field almost full

May 22, 2015
Marcy Shortuse
News

BY MARCY SHORTUSE When you feed a kid a fish, they will eat for a day … or push it around on their plate, at least. When you teach a kid to fish, though, well … sometimes you’ll...

This Memorial Day, watch for manatees while on the boat

May 22, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

The Memorial Day weekend typically means crowded conditions on Florida waterways, and Save the Manatee Club cautions the boating community to keep a look out for manatees. “Collisions with...

A tale of two soldiers … Walter Tatko and John Bourgoin

May 22, 2015
Boca Beacon
News, Profiles

BY JACK SHORT To anyone who happened upon a scene in the kitchen of the Palmetto Inn recently, two men pouring over maps with their wives and siblings, sandwiches and soup cooking on the other...

Get ready to ‘howl’ on May 30

May 22, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

Capt. Sandy Melvin of Special Effects/Gasparilla Outfitters has announced the date for the traditional “Howl at the Moon” Open Invitational Tarpon Tournament to be on Saturday, May 30, from 8 to...

May 15, 2015
Boca Beacon
News

BY MARCY SHORTUSE Sea turtle season has just begun and while nest numbers are still low, island patrollers have already found one turtle dead on local beaches. According to Maureen...