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Yeah…imma need 40 more videos like this!! Phenomenal short film, truly inspiring.

Fabulous, thanks for sharing.

Incredible video. Every Floridian should see this.

World class cinematography! keep fighting the good fight!

As a father of a cellist, I love the cello in this soundtrack. Such a beautiful sounding instrument 🙂

Florida has fallen and its so sad to see. Everything it was, everything people wanted from Florida it can’t even provide anymore and yet people keep on coming, and taking more from it. Wonderful video with some hope inspired

Well done! Please continue to spread the word.

The problem is the Charlotte County commissioners will do nothing about water or the building. I've sat in the meetings, they are presented with historical and real time water data every meeting which they ignore. The head is also a large builder in the area so it's not in his interests to slow any type of building in Charlotte County. There needs to be a shake up at the county level before ANYTHING will happen.

This was the best video I have seen in a long time!!! INCREDIBLE JOB!!!!

Incredible film makes me want to get a job in the field to help. I'm 5th generation floridian and after this video it makes me feel like I should be doing more. My pops who grew up in homestead even though he just passed he would agree! Keep up the fight gents hope to be able to contribute one day.

Outstanding video. Much respect for yall.

Crazy good video, Keep going!

Incredible film! So impressed with the ability to mesh such an important topic with an entertaining video and sick tarpon shots.

Awesome work guys. We need more movies like this. Very inspiring.

Outstanding video and information!

Thankful for you boys!!!

Well done guys. Great video.Thank you for doing this.

So sick, great job fellas

They discharged a lot of water mid June into the Caloosahatcee and it shut down my poon bite at the Cape Coral Bridges.

People will never understand what it takes to film a piece like this let alone in fishing conditions. A+ who was the cameraman?

Awesome!

Phenomenal production

Good work guys thank you

And the dirty little secret that no one is talking about along both coast of Florida, is that ALL of the septic treatment plant operations are close to the coast and if you look even closer, you'll find ditches that run adjacent to their sewer facilities, that somehow receives overflow of their "treated" run-off water, that leads to larger ditches and then canals and to the rivers and/or backwater bays, that leads to large harbors and bays, that leads to the Gulf or the Atlantic. The interior of the state operates the same way, which leads to those same ditches and canal systems, that leads to rivers and lakes and so forth, which then ends up again in the Gulf or the Atlantic. And let's not forget about that affluent water leading to run-offs into the Everglades Eco System, which ends up in the saltwater estuaries of the Everglades, through to Florida Bay and out through the Keys and into the Gulf of Mexico. It's almost as bad as what Big Phosphate is doing. Btw, back in Feb 2024, Manatee County's sewer facility in the City of Bradenton was overwhelmed my the amount the sewage from all the new housing developments from Lakewood Ranch. So at midnight on a full moon at the peak of the outgoing hill tide, Manatee County released 1.2 million gallons of raw sewage into the Manatee River, so that it will dump into the mouth of Tampa Bay and eventually the Gulf of Mexico. The story was released in the Bradenton Herald, by a reliable un-named source, but the county brushes it off that it was unintentional. What they didn't forecast was "what goes out with the tide, comes back in with the tide!" And so the tides for several weeks thereafter didn't hide the truth, as foaming bubbles, clearly shown the track of the sewage movement, back and forth with the tides, like someone put dish soap in a clothes washer, as it sloshed in and out of the river for weeks on end! Also, possibly due to this, the greater Tampa Bay area had one of the worst tarpon shows in decades this year. Fact!

Love this! Camera work is amazing. What kind of camera was used here?

Can we discuss the jiggers back in the past these outlaws are hook and fish anywhere except for where they need to put pressure on them and fight them quick and turn them loose need to shut the pass down during the season let people fish the hill up into the harbor and outside the pass on the beaches

Excellent video and message. But the truth is the all mighty dollar will always win. Development is inevitable. We all loved SWFL 25 years ago when the fishery was plentiful. But talking about how it used to be doesn’t help. Let’s focus on then issues we can change, not complain about the ones we can’t change.

More and more over development is bad, but when the top dogs are publicly saying come to Florida to live it's a great state to live in, where do we think they will live ? Money talks, full speed ahead dam the ecological damage.

25 yrs of one party rule

Thanks to all the greedy politicians and developers?😢😢😢

I'm sharing to FB n to anyone I can

12 hundred golf courses with all the chemicals go figure 😂 . I'm 71 native floridian , the fish will loose. The saying the old days..

Fishing for them while they are spawning totally has nothing to do with it.

Great video, and I thank you for it. But I have to cry hypocrite. If you moved to south west florida in 1990 to become a guide, than you are the problem! There are some people left that have generations of Florida blood. You need to work together because this generation that is moving in is very powerful and change the Paradise with no remorse. Just quick money

Zero environmental protection for mangroves

Ban cast netting now, r@ping our waters

Follow the money. Cities make money from tax revenue. How do you increase that revenue? Sell more plots of land. Unless massive amounts of money are spent on creating buffer zones and keeping natural shorelines in place every square inch of FL will be developed. Mangroves and tarpon don't pay taxes so why would any city, county or state commissioner want them around? The revenue generated by fishing and other water based tourism is a drop in the bucket compared to putting another 10,000 homes in. I've been inshore fishing for 25 years and watched the Indian River (Vero/Ft Piece area) completely collapse. I watched Flamingo become a waste land of dead grass and fish kills due to poor water management. If you think our politicians are going to do anything about this you've been in the sun too long. On a local level you might get some lip service but that's it. Again follow the money.

Waaaay too many guides pounding fish

CCA does NOTHING