I-4 is a road I despise driving on and I’m sure many of you feel the same way. Friday evening added to my contempt of that Highway as I returned from Pinellas Park. I had gone over to the west coast to tape a television show for Average Angler Adventures that airs on the Brighthouse Sports Network. Glen Pla, the host of the show, was wrapping up a series of shows he did about fishing the marshes of Florida. Having done one of the shows in that series he asked me to join him and two other fishing guides into the studio to conclude the series.
The taping of the show ended around 4:30 PM. Not wanting to hit rush hour traffic in Tampa and Orlando I hung around the studio until 6:15 PM thinking that I would have a clear shot on my return trip. I sailed through the Tampa area thinking I had a clear path the rest of the way. This was too good to be true I thought to myself and as fate would have it, it was. As I approached the Auburndale area all cars came to a dead stop. Oh no, not again, another accident on I-4. We just sat there moving at a snails pace. I proceeded to talk to someone in the car next to me and he informed me that there was an accident involving a fatality. I turned up the radio and settled in for a long slow drive. Although it was 12:30 AM by the time I arrived home feeling tired and hungry, I felt grateful that I made it home safely. You can bet the next GPS I get for my car will be equipped with a traffic alert feature.
I had a buddy of mine (Doug) come visit last week for a few days and we did two days of fishing. The first day was slow and uneventful except for the 20” flounder Doug caught on a Berkley Gulp. On the second day we headed up toward Matanzas area to see if we could get some flounder but they weren’t cooperating. We then headed to the 206 flats and landed one small red and a small jack on gold spoons. With the water being higher than normal we could hear redfish busting on mullet way back in the grass but we couldn’t get to them.
We then headed south and weren’t able to get to some flounder spots due to the dredging that is going on. We stopped at a flat north of Bings Landing and landed 3 slot size reds and a croaker on gold spoons.
The taping of the show ended around 4:30 PM. Not wanting to hit rush hour traffic in Tampa and Orlando I hung around the studio until 6:15 PM thinking that I would have a clear shot on my return trip. I sailed through the Tampa area thinking I had a clear path the rest of the way. This was too good to be true I thought to myself and as fate would have it, it was. As I approached the Auburndale area all cars came to a dead stop. Oh no, not again, another accident on I-4. We just sat there moving at a snails pace. I proceeded to talk to someone in the car next to me and he informed me that there was an accident involving a fatality. I turned up the radio and settled in for a long slow drive. Although it was 12:30 AM by the time I arrived home feeling tired and hungry, I felt grateful that I made it home safely. You can bet the next GPS I get for my car will be equipped with a traffic alert feature.
I had a buddy of mine (Doug) come visit last week for a few days and we did two days of fishing. The first day was slow and uneventful except for the 20” flounder Doug caught on a Berkley Gulp. On the second day we headed up toward Matanzas area to see if we could get some flounder but they weren’t cooperating. We then headed to the 206 flats and landed one small red and a small jack on gold spoons. With the water being higher than normal we could hear redfish busting on mullet way back in the grass but we couldn’t get to them.
We then headed south and weren’t able to get to some flounder spots due to the dredging that is going on. We stopped at a flat north of Bings Landing and landed 3 slot size reds and a croaker on gold spoons.