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Whether you are targeting Permit in South Florida and the Caribbean or Sheepshead in North Florida, Señor Crab is here to help!

A year-long study by Florida International University (FIU) and Bonefish & Tarpon Trust (BTT) has discovered pharmaceutical contaminants in the blood and other tissues of redfish in Florida waters.

It will all taste better (so I have been told, but I am a little biased 😊) when doing such out of your official Flats Nation Flag Mug.

We here on Flats Nation applaud these awesome efforts to help heal one of the once, and soon again, great fisheries here in Florida!

This versatile fly was inspired and tested in the chocolate milk waters of Everglades National Park

I am Fly Shop Junkie and I visit, and have visited them, from Coast to Coast / North to South when traveling.

The inspiration for this fly was to outsmart the smartest and biggest Biscayne Bay Bonefish in my home waters of Miami.

Dr. Ross Boucek is the Florida Keys Initiative Manager with BTT (Bonefish and Tarpon Trust) based in Miami, Florida.

Justin, though, is an great guy and involved in and passionate about various conservation efforts with both CFCW and BTT here in Florida

as advised, it is not any formal training or classroom type of instruction (more social), but I am pretty sure you will pick up some Tips and Tricks simply by watching and asking questions!

Flats Nation was invited for a media-level tour of the Mote Marine International Center for Coral Reef Research & Restoration in Summerland Key the other day, and it was just awesome!

Our friends at Bajio Sunglasses took "Best of Category — Eyewear" at ICAST 2022

A very informative video from Simon and Hannah Perkins—cousins who are part of the third generation of the Perkins family to run Orvis—traveled the length of the Everglades watershed

The NE section near the St. Augustine / Palm Coast area. It is filled with Oyster Beds, and Spartina grass filled with crabs and shrimp.

one of South Florida's Fly-Fishing gurus. Share some of his patterns and the modifications he has made to them to help increase your hook-up ratio!

I have written about and used these chips for several years (since 2018). They are installed not only in my Skiff but in many of my friend's Skiffs and Boats (I know I programmed those installs), and I am convinced you will not find a better chart for your GPS!