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Florida Development Team Plans $500M Resort Marina in Costa Rica (Commercial Property News)
At the request of the government of Costa Rica, Miami-born developers Jim Lynskey and Harvey Sasso are embarking on a $500 million resort marina project (rendering pictured) in the country's southeastern village of Golfito.
Florida Boater Is Rescued in Atlantic (The Ledger)
ANAPOLIS -- Two Maryland boaters rescued a 49-year-old Florida man whose boat capsized in rough seas about eight miles off Boca Raton.
Pa. May Let Hunters Use Prehistoric Weapon (AP via Yahoo! News)
An ancient weapon that struck fear in the hearts of Spanish conquistadors, and that some think was used to slay wooly mammoths in Florida, may soon be added to the arsenal of Pennsylvania's hunters.
Grouper ban faces challenge (Miami Herald)
(AP) -- Recreational fishermen are challenging a proposal for a one-month ban on grouper fishing in the Gulf of Mexico and permanent limits on the amount people can catch and keep.
Outing salutes military vets (Miami Herald)
Florida National Guard Captain Steve Caceres spent 13 months as a communications officer in Ramadi, Iraq. Now stationed in Miami, Caceres took a break Friday from post-Wilma clean-up operations to celebrate Veterans Day with his first fishing trip.
Southwest Florida fishing outstanding (The News-Press)
Fishing has been great. The fall runs of king and Spanish mackerel, cobia, bonito, tripletail and gag grouper are in swing, inshore anglers are catching lots of keeper-size snook and redfish, and the closed-season catch-and-release fishing for trout has been very good.
Aripeka Heights Plan Put On Hold (Pasco.TBO.com)
ARIPEKA - -- Residents of this tiny fishing village in northwest Pasco say a proposed residential development will threaten Florida black bears, aggravate flooding and disrupt their tranquil way of life.
Fishing forecast (Florida Today)
Saltwater: Anglers have found good numbers of fish above grass flats and edges of flats along the Indian River Lagoon system. Snook, seatrout, redfish, ladyfish, jack crevalle, bluefish and even Spanish mackerel have been taken along the lagoon system.
Fishing forecast (Miami Herald)
South Florida deep-sea anglers are playing catch-up with sailfish season. Schools of ballyhoo showed up along ocean reefs from Key Largo to Marathon. Captain Paul Ross, on the boat Relentess out of Bog & Mary's in Islamorada, had chances at 22 sailfish Tuesday, caught and released 10 sailfish. . . . Rick Berry said he was at Key West and watched anglers on six boats catch only two sailfish. . . .
Outdoorsman snatches 11-foot Burmese python while on fishing trip in Stuart (Sun-Sentinel)
STUART It was one heck of a fish story -- and the punch line was an 11-foot albino Burmese python.