“Florida Fears That Lake Okeechobee Is Dying”: An old recurring theme in South Florida that never gets too old for some.

“Lake Okeechobee, giant linchpin of the water resource network of south Florida and the Everglades, is dying, and the state government is mobilizing to rescue the lake and prevent what some experts fear could be an environmental disaster.”

—Dateline: Buckhead Ridge, FL, by New York Times reporter Jon Nordheimer, August 21st, 1986 . . .



However, thirty-two years later, an amazing thing happens when searching for current fishing conditions in Lake Okeechobee.