We all want and use all this modern stuff that makes our lives better and gives us higher standards of living cheaper .And everybody, everybody, wants cheaper. Our clothes,homes , vehicles , boats . Even the plastic lures and the paints on them . Everything is plastic or some sort of composite . The production process of these materials are extremely invasive . These " profit mongers "are giving us exactly what we want .
I to use know a guy that use to eat a ton of LO fish of all kinds . Sadly he died mysteriously one day . Quite possibly from what was described . He was 97 years old.
As far as food allergies etc in children. After getting in my eat healthy kick a few years back I started to read the ingredients on the labels at the advice of a nutritionalist.It amazes me the amount of crap we are feeding ourselves and our children we call food .
And we are worried about some fresh fish ?
I agree with Whaler
Downriggers are the center of any small boat trolling system , especially for newbies IMO . I love mine on my 16 ft . Easy to deploy and are precise with depth , no guessing like with dipsys .
If you were to get dipsys , make one a
Braid slide driver IMO .
If you are fishing spring , planer boards are nice .
Some sort of down speed and temp is a great investment .
There is offshore and inshore fishing down there . Both are fun .
If you or anyone is driving down and you are on I 95 , make a point of stopping at Buc EE's in Florence.
It's quite the travel plaza experience .
Get a brisket or what I got , a club melt sandwich . Incredible .
My Dad wintered in Venice about an hr south of Sarasota . We went out on a head boat a few times. It was fun and relatively cheap .
But I had fun on the Venice jetties . Caught a variety of species .
Best setups were 1/4 to 1/2 oz jigs with shrimp on 7 ft med spin rods or I used a 9 ft steelhead rod with a float with shrimp . I let it drift with the current along the rocks .
Enjoy the nice weather down there .
They were a high percentage of my stream catch .Way more than any other year since I have had my cottage . I saw a good amount caught be other anglers also. Some who I believe mistook them for Coho.
I am was just saying, since you are buying a spray can of lacquer , you could use it to refresh other lures you already have to kill time during the doldrums of winter .
Also any scuffed up or rash stick baits , spoons or flashers ,etc can be brought back to life with a couple quick coats .
Maybe some super fine steel wool to clean them up first . Then spray .
Actually I have had good experiences with them .
They rebuilt the my Cobra outdrive on my Bayliner and did other work .
They did some work on my 35 Merc .
Got parts and oil from them many times .
Never once had a problem .
But this was before they sold and I found Tommy Barbara