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Monday · July 6, 2026Today's Edition · 🌅 4-min read
Your morning read for Southeast Hillsborough ☀️
📰 Today's Stories
— from around the Suncoast, by Martin
☀ Today's Weather
🌊 The Coast
Apollo Beach · Ruskin · Sun City
☀️94°
Sunny.
🌳 Inland
Brandon · Valrico · FishHawk
☀️95°
Sunny.
The take: A hot one — 95° inland. Morning is your window; hydrate and check the back seat every single time you park.
🎣 Tides & Fishing
Tarpon are rolling — and the bait is everywhere
— The Tackle Box
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🟢 What's biting: It's tarpon time — the big poons (80–120 lb) are working the beaches, passes, and the Skyway. Redfish and trout are chewing the flats early on moving water, with mangrove snapper stacked around any structure. Bait's thick: greenbacks and threadfins everywhere, and the pass crabs are running for the tarpon.
Today's tides (St. Pete station): High 4:13 am · Low 7:33 am · High 1:57 pm · Low 9:36 pm. Fish the moving water around the changes — dawn and dusk beat the heat.
🌸 The Garden Patch
Grow it, pick it, eat it
— The Garden Patch · what to grow & why it's good for you
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🌱 Grow & eat · today's crop
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☕ The Coffee Break
🧠 Trivia of the day
Answer's at the very bottom 👇
🔮 Tomorrow's outlook
More of the same — hot, 90s, afternoon boomers. Best beach & fishing window is before 11 AM.
👍 Good day for: an early start
🗺️ Free Day Out
Worth the drive — and it costs nothing
— a new free spot every day, all within ~50 minutes
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