Sure, we can grouse about about the old days, but let's stop crowing and start warbling when you stop to consider the Marathon Bonefish Tournament released over 200 fish in a few days and as this is written, "rafts" of baitfish swim the Atlantic-side reefs of the Florida Keys. The buzz is that the source of this bounty was some obscure and unknown pinwheel weather system called Wilma-some surmise the bait got shoved through the Keys from the Gulf to Atlantic like a Manhattan subway charge. The food chain being what it is whether it's corporate America or the reef drop from Key Largo to Key West, baitfish pull in and concentrate sails, blackfins, and kings. And this, of course, pulls in anglers- the Crown of Creation. So, it does seem like biomass, fish stocks, and habitat can flex a little bit-the last, the least.
Oh yes, I'm happy to report that tarpon fishing is now a year-long, any-weather fishery in Biscayne Bay: you just need to know where to go.
Jan
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