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Your fishing forecast features, coastal temperatures, sea conditions, tides and peak fishing hours. However, the best part of this fun feature is that you can customize your own forecast by following the links. So utilize The Bradenton Times to get you where you need to go and help you catch that big one.

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Gulf grouper season will close on February 1, 2012, but snook season is reopening -- on the Atlantic coast only. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conervation Commission plan to increase bag limits on trout and snook and a new FWC database will allow people to search for boating ramps all over the state. 

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Your fishing forecast features, coastal temperatures, sea conditions, tides and peak fishing hours. However, the best part of this fun feature is that you can customize your own forecast by following the links. So utilize The Bradenton Times to get you where you need to go and help you catch that big one.

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Ever wish you could understand your GPS or read a chart? Well the Anna Maria Island Power Squadron is hosting a charting seminar on January 24 and a GPS seminar on January 31. Both Events will be open to the public. The Port Salerno Seafood Festival kicks off January 28. The mild weather conditions have allowed for some great offshore fishing and grouper have been biting.

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Your fishing forecast features, coastal temperatures, sea conditions, tides and peak fishing hours. However, the best part of this fun feature is that you can customize your own forecast by following the links. So utilize The Bradenton Times to get you where you need to go and help you catch that big one.

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Ever wish you could understand your GPS or read a chart? Well the Anna Maria Island Power Squadron is hosting a charting seminar on January 24 and a GPS seminar on January 31. Both Events will be open to the public. The Port Salerno Seafood Festival kicks off January 28. The mild weather conditions have allowed for some great offshore fishing and grouper have ben biting, but inshore many people are not having very good luck.

 

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Your fishing forecast features, coastal temperatures, sea conditions, tides and peak fishing hours. However, the best part of this fun feature is that you can customize your own forecast by following the links. So utilize The Bradenton Times to get you where you need to go and help you catch that big one more»

The manatees are in trouble again, but it’s not the fishermen’s fault as much as the cold weather—accounting for 112 deaths! Recent cold snaps have enticed manatees to congregate in warm weather refuges near power plants so watch out! Take your pick of seafood festivals this weekend; two big ones will take place in both Key West and Apalachicola. A cold front will approach and move across the waters on Wednesday with increasing winds and seas expected along and ahead of the front. Surface high pressure will build over the waters Thursday and Friday more»

This time of year, mullet have moved off the flats to do their annual spawning. They congregate in massive schools and move offshore by the thousands, often resembling a black wave rolling through the water. The sight is accompanied by hundreds of mullet fishermen surrounding the school. One cast will likely capture hundreds of pounds of mullet. But the fishermen aren’t after the fish meat, the roe is the valuable asset. Often times, male fish carcasses are tossed overboard to make room for more females. Officials are sick of footing the bill for the clean-up, but are they willing to do what it takes to eliminate the problem?

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Your fishing forecast features, coastal temperatures, sea conditions, tides and peak fishing hours. However, the best part of this fun feature is that you can customize your own forecast by following the links. So utilize The Bradenton Times to get you where you need to go and help you catch that big one more»