by Douglas Cutting | Mar 4, 2020
All sorts of interesting characters frequent our fishing piers, but they all share the same thing—a passion for fishing. South Carolina’s Daniel Island is actually a peninsula of the original Cainhoy Plantation sandwiched by the Cooper and Wando rivers that...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Mar 2, 2020
The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR), Marine Resources Division (MRD) announced Alabama state waters and federal waters will open for red snapper fishing for private anglers on Friday, May 22, 2020. The season will consist of...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Feb 25, 2020
The recreational gray triggerfish season reopens to harvest in Gulf state and federal waters March 1, and will remain open through May 1, closing to harvest May 2, 2020. If you plan to fish for gray triggerfish in Gulf state or federal waters, excluding Monroe County,...
by Douglas Cutting | Feb 25, 2020
In the summer of 1964, an average Joe revealed to the happy-go-lucky Myrtle Beach tourists where some large creatures roamed. Large is actually insulting when it comes to describing thousand-pound sharks. How about one that weighed almost a ton, caught with rod and...
by Larry Chesney | Feb 19, 2020
It was May 1, 2015, a Friday, and Baltimore seemed like the last place anyone would go for a peaceful getaway. But my wife, Kathy, and I had planned to visit her son Jay in Charm City that very weekend. We were determined to make it happen. Network news broadcasts...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Feb 12, 2020
When I started graduate school at Florida State University, I had never seen a sawfish in the wild, but I was excited to be part of the recovery of a species I had been so awestruck by in aquariums. The smalltooth sawfish, the only sawfish found in Florida, has been...
by Elijah Myrick | Jan 28, 2020
The 2019/2020 fire season in Australia has been catastrophic. The latest figures estimate 46 million acres have burned, 36 people died and a mind-boggling loss of 1 billion animals including some species that are on the brink of extinction. These numbers are growing...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 1, 2019
The diverse Florida Indian River Lagoon is being poisoned by a booming human population. Last May, while visiting friends in Edgewater, Florida, I enjoyed a boat ride out to Mosquito Lagoon. My best old buddy in the world, Jim Carver, and his cousins Greg, Fred and...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Sep 18, 2019
On September 1, Hurricane Dorian stalled over the northern Bahamas islands with sustained winds over 185 mph – the highest windspeed of any Atlantic hurricane recorded at landfall. The resulting damage to the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama was catastrophic as the...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Sep 13, 2019
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) 2019-2020 High School Fishing Program offers high school fishing clubs or teams the opportunity to apply for the Florida Sport Fish Restoration R3 Fishing Grant. This grant program is focused on recruiting...
