The fishing community of Anna Maria Island is mourning the loss of one of its beloved charter captains after his passing on ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Tarpon fishing is very popular in Florida because there’s a lot of them, and they can get quite big. Captain Tyler Kapela from Hit and Run Charters in St. Petersburg sees them ...

If you think you need a boat to catch big redfish and snook consistently, think again. Since the beginning of October land-based anglers have been catching both with regularity in popular areas around ...

ANNA MARIA, Fla. — Welcome to Cortez, one of the last coastal fishing villages in Florida right next to Anna Maria Island. A memorial is placed for fishermen who worked tirelessly to catch the product ...

Within the last month, there have been three drownings near Bean Point – two on Aug. 9 and one on Aug. 31. Anna Maria's Bean ...

ANNA MARIA ISLAND -- Beachgoers looking for a Christmas walk on Anna Maria Island a few weeks ago got an unpleasant surprise: thousands of dead, rotting fish littering the 9-mile coastline from top to ...

Colorful chairs overlooking the beach on Santa Maria Island. The destination survived Hurricane Ian intact. Photo Credit: Bradenton Area Visitors Bureau Anna Maria Island, a seven-mile stretch of ...

Anna Maria Island, that seven-mile stretch of beautiful white-sand beaches, lively seafood restaurants and tiki bars (some of them literally perched on the sand), fishing piers, souvenir shops and mom ...

Think of Anna Maria Island as a seven-mile-long necklace with three cities shining like jewels: Bradenton Beach, Holmes Beach and Anna Maria. In each one, you time travel to the laid-back Florida of ...