Instant Karma's Gonna Get You

The owners of the Professional Tarpon Tournament Series and their Tampa attorney will be paying the legal bills of three Save The Tarpon Inc. directors after a Charlotte County Circuit Court judge slapped them with sanctions under a rarely-invoked state statute aimed at curbing so-called frivolous litigation.

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FWC votes 7-0 to ban controversial ‘tarpon jig’ in Boca Grande Pass

Congratulations to Save the Tarpon for leading the successful grassroots campaign to protect the tarpon of Boca Grande pass.

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Meanwhile, the PTTS clown car has blown another tire.

Clueless to crisis in our environment

Author Carl Hiaasen rips Florida Governor Rick Scott Clueless over the billions of gallons of cruddy water being dumped from Lake Okeechobee into the St. Lucie River, a criminal act of pollution that’s poisoning the St. Lucie Estuary and Indian River Lagoon.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/24/3581860/clueless-to-crisis-in-our-environment.html#storylink=cpy

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Bonefish Tarpon Trust gives its position on jigging issue in Boca Grande waters

Another nail in the Boca Grande jig coffin.

“Bonefish & Tarpon Trust supports the proposed new rules that would ban the Boca Grande Jig,” said Aaron Adams, Director of Operations at BTT.

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The new PTTS is the same old PTTS

More of the same from the PTTS, a trail of gaffed, dragged and dead tarpon.

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Protest in the Pass

Things are going to be heating up in the pass.

Join Save the Tarpon and its supporters on May 19th at 6:45 am for “Protest in the Pass.”  They are showing up by water to protest the Professional Tarpon Tournament Series (PTTS) as it begins its 2013 season events.

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