If you’re going to own only one fishing rod and reel, a spinning-rod-and-reel setup is the most versatile and the easiest to use. Compared with a baitcasting or fly-fishing setup, for example ...

County commissioner George Kruse posted a split image of Anna Maria Island’s iconic Rod and Reel Pier restaurant from post-Hurricane Helene to Hurricane Milton wiping out what was left on ...

For decades, the Rod & Reel Pier and restaurant at the northern tip of Anna Maria Island withstood it all. Hurricanes. Lightning. Fire. The waves of saltwater and the passage of time. Then ...

For one Anna Maria Island landmark, the one-two punch of these storms was too much. The Rod & Reel Pier, located just off North Shore Drive in Anna Maria—the northernmost town on Anna Maria ...

It was a survivor, until Mother Nature whipped up just a bit more than it could handle. For decades, the Rod & Reel Pier and restaurant at the northern tip of Anna Maria Island withstood it all.

Spinning gracefully around a silver pole to a disco medley, she contorted her body into a series of improbable positions with even more improbable names like “The Chopstick,” “The Jade Split ...

ANNA MARIA, Fla. — The Rod & Reel Pier restaurant on Anna Maria Island was swallowed by the Gulf of Mexico in the whipping winds of Hurricane Milton, which made landfall Wednesday night in ...

The Bling is a “high-energy” pole dancing fitness studio, not a “strip club in a strip mall,” although some people had to be convinced, said owner Taylor Franklin, 32. The business opened ...

The Rod & Reel Pier was one of those structures. A seafood restaurant once located off of a long pier on North Shore Drive is no longer. After Helene, the building was still standing, with ...

For one Anna Maria Island landmark, the one-two punch of these storms was too much. The Rod & Reel Pier, located just off ...

The HOT ROD Power Tour is a week long, multi-city event featuring more than 6,000 vehicles and as many as 100,000 spectators. It’s not a stretch to call the Power Tour the largest traveling car ...