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Florida Fishing News - John Preeg: Fishing is Florida s true No. 1 sport (Naples


John Preeg: Fishing is Florida s true No. 1 sport (Naples Daily News)
It is nice to see that Florida collegiate football and basketball have finally joined fishing as being number one in the nation. Somehow, however, the Florida Gators seem to get a lot more publicity when they score a touchdown or shoot a 3-pointer than my charters do when they land a keeper snook.

THE FISH OF MEMORIES (Pioneer Press)
"Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." Henry David Thoreau FFran Young caught a walleye in 1974. And like so many other Minnesota catches, the story of her truly big fish grew even larger over the years as a piece of family lore.

Youngster gets record Tripletail (Florida Today)
William Thompson, 12, of Titusville caught his first tripletail outside Port Canaveral recent, and what a catch it was. The 24.5-pound fish set a record for junior catches in the Florida Sport Fishing Association, a Cape Canaveral club.