Places
May 01, 2013
Line-X Sarasota
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The first time I saw protective coating, it was not on a boat. It was on a truck bed. I had a Ford pickup for a few years, and when I bought it used, it had a coating on the bed liner. To this day there are two things I remember most about that Ford. The color (a bright blue) and the liner in the bed. That was the only liner I had known of until we talked to the people at Line-X Sarasota. The company's workload is still… Read More
April 10, 2013
Tarpon Fishing Outfitters
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This is about the grand opening of a new tackle shop. I could have just done a flier, or told you how much time my partner Captain Dave spends finding gears for eight-year-old Shimano 4000s suffering from their well-known flaw in their anti-reverse machinery. I could talk about how cool it is to be around a store like the one in Holiday while it grows from old to new. On Saturday the twentieth of this month, come heck or… Read More
December 17, 2012
Minnows and Monsters
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If you are reading this magazine, you spend more than your allotted amount of time thinking about fishing, actually fishing, talking about fishing, reading about fishing, being obsessed with fishing, and - this one hits the point of the article on the proverbial head - walking around tackle shops thinking about what you have to buy next. I visited Minnows and Monsters the other day, talking about a giveaway, among many… Read More
September 08, 2011
The Rainbow Lodge - Alaska
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One of the true legends in our sport -- a guy by the name of Captain Scott Moore -- is somebody who's enriched many people's lives over the years. Through a friendship that's spanned many years, I've watched him hand-feed snook as if they had been raised along with the puppies in his house and seen him fight for our rights to fish our waters along with the best of them. Ever catch a rainbow trout? If you have, it was… Read More
August 02, 2010
Here Fishy Fishy Bait and Tackle
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There was already a shop called "Masters" at this 1810 South Pinellas Avenue location in Tarpon Springs. Marco and his wife recently purchased the store and renamed it Here Fishy Fishy Bait and Tackle, and when I stopped in there a few months back I liked the shop, their really friendly attitude, and the fact that they were new business owners. I can relate; I've owned a few new businesses myself after retiring from a… Read More
