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Gamma weakens, kills 14
Gamma weakens, kills 14 in Central America (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
U.S. military helicopters began flying aid to survivors in central America on Sunday as Gamma, the 24th major storm in a record-breaking hurricane season, weakened after killing 14 people.
Tropical Storm Gamma Kills 12, Weakens (AP via Yahoo! News)
Tropical Storm Gamma weakened Sunday into a tropical depression after it deluged the Central American coast, killing 12 people nine in Honduras and three in Belize when a small plane belonging to a lodge owned by filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola crashed.
Fishing forecast (Miami Herald)
Seems like summer is still here, given the 80-plus degree heat in afternoons. A more winter-like chill is said to be en route to South Florida -- probably Sunday. . . . On her first deep-sea fishing trip, Cindy LoCicero hooked a 70-pound wahoo, which took 40 minutes to reel in. She was on the boat Launch M, fishing off Key Biscayne with captain Dave Trafton and crewman Adrian Gray. A Miami group
Outdoors Calendar (Sun-Sentinel)
Saturday: Strictly Florida Fishing , 6-8 a.m., 790 The Ticket (WAXY-AM), with hosts Tim Mullin and Todd Kersey, featuring a live remote with NASCAR drivers participating in the Miccosukee Resort & Gaming Hot Rods & Reels charity fishing tournament at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Ready to retire? (River Valley Business Report)
Bob Bue, former president of Wells Fargo Bank in La Crosse, spends more time hunting, fishing, playing golf and biking than he did before he retired in January 2004.
Voted #1 Florida Press 2004 FIRST PLACE Best Web Site Florida Keys Keynoter (Keynoter.com)
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.
A Merry-go-round Christmas (Palm Beach Post)
In Fernandina Beach, a small fishing village northeast of Jacksonville, townsfolk know Christmas is just around the corner when the horses line up around the porch at The Bailey House.
Got seafood? Not in the Florida Keys (MSNBC)
At the very height of lobster and stone crab season, when fisherman make their money for the year, South Florida and the Keys were swept by four hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Rita and, worst of all, Wilma. NBC's Mark Potter reports.
Old Seven Mile Bridge could close (Miami Herald)
The last vestige of the Keys' original Seven Mile Bridge -- first used nearly a century ago by a locomotive as part of Henry Flagler's ambitious Florida East Coast Railway -- may finally be closed if state and local agencies can't muster millions of dollars for major repairs.