mullet.

have become very wise as to the sound of charter boat motors and when they stop to fish. They've, the bottlenose, have also become very wise as to where to bite that fish that's going topside. They don't get hooked very often.

Charter captains would have a very hard time convincing the public they have to kill flipper to support the commercial fishing industry so I think the dolphin will be ok for a while yet.

to fish the Skyway any more. pRicksnott decided the public parks are subject to user fees and I think it's now 5.00 a person and 12.00 a vehicle.

It was the land place to fish for big sharks/tarpon and grouper back in the day. Now it's just another cow to be milked instead of milking the wealthy here.

Instead of giving bad info I got this;

Saltwater Licenses & Permits
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
https://myfwc.com › license › saltwater

Problem being IMO, there are a lot of people, and I mean ALOT OF PEOPLE moving here and they have no clue about how f'd up it was back in the 70s when the bays were dirty, the fish had cancers, and the seagrass was dieing or dead. It took much education to change things and we got over the hump in the early 90s.

Now it's deja vu all over again and the state isn't really interested in much aside from development.

Ya know what? I really love this place. The bays, the gulf of mexico, the freshwater lakes, the fishing, birding, hunting if that's your bag, and the orange groves that used to be here. I just haven't found a political party that stands for all that and I'm getting older every day.

Hate that there's no going back to natural FL, before air-conditioning and mosquito control. Beautiful, wild, but practically uninhabitable much of the year.