Lake Okeechobee, just a few miles south of Osceola ... and the vegetation is so thick that you can’t fish outside those trails. There are good bass biting wherever you find eelgrass.

There does not appear to be a problem with mercury contaminating fish in Lake Okeechobee, state officials said on Wednesday. The Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission found no dangerous ...

People shouldn't eat fish caught anywhere in Lake Okeechobee after a blue-green algae bloom near the center tested positive for hazardous toxin levels, an Audubon Florida biologist said Monday.

It’s the question Bryton Shockley, a fourth-generation commercial fisherman who’s been fishing in Lake Okeechobee his entire life, asked himself after pulling up a fish Wednesday that appeared ...

Those fish are threatened by Lake Okeechobee discharges along with other pollution runoff throughout the Treasure Coast. Stuart City Commissioner Mike Meier is on board with the push to put these ...