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Joe Baya

Joe Baya is Great Days Outdoors’ editor-in-chief. He is responsible for a team of hunters and anglers that cover everything from fishing and hunting to the financial implications of owning and managing private land. Baya started his career in the outdoors as a charter boat deckhand and eventual 50 Ton Captain logging over 1,000 days on the waters of the Gulf of Mexico fishing out of Dauphin Island, Alabama. His formal education began in agricultural communications at Auburn University, where his Dad asked, “What are you going to do…Talk to cows?”

Northwest Florida Fishing Report

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Northwest Florida Fishing Report for November 11 – 17, 2024

Northwest Florida Fishing Report

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Northwest Florida Fishing Report

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Northwest Florida Fishing Report for November 4 – 10, 2024

Northwest Florida Fishing Report

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Northwest Florida Fishing Report

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Northwest Florida Fishing Report for October 28 – November 3, 2024

Northwest Florida Fishing Report

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cottonmouth snake in Florida

Lessons Learned From My Son’s Cottonmouth Bite

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On July 2, 2022, a peaceful Fourth of July weekend at a hunting camp in Barbour County, Alabama, quickly turned into a life-threatening emergency. After

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I wake from my dream with the bed sheets damp from sweat. I’m still shaken, panicked by the feeling of weightlessness, the sensation of perpetually

Northwest Florida Fishing Report

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Northwest Florida Fishing Report for October 21 – 27, 2024

Northwest Florida Fishing Report

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Northwest Florida Fishing Report

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Northwest Florida Fishing Report for October 14 – 20, 2024

Northwest Florida Fishing Report

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Northwest Florida Fishing Report

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Northwest Florida Fishing Report for October 7 – 13, 2024

Northwest Florida Fishing Report

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