The Shell Factory

On our weekend trip down to Port Charlotte, we stopped into a tourist place called "The Shell Factory". This was classic roadside tourist catering at it's "Florida Finest" - you come for a shells (of which they had plenty)... And you stay for the fluorescent tshirts, Christmas ornaments, pirate equipment and the hundreds of taxidermied animals. Marlon spotted a jackalope amidst the lions, warthogs, deer and other animals (but we didn't get a picture). Good time!!!

Pocket full of shells

I punched out at 1800 and ran to the O'Club Beach. The tide was pretty low so I didn't have much expectations. And I had the fly gear again - actually, it's nice coming back from fishing and not smelling like squid.

I thought I had a couple of bites, but no hook ups.

Not a loss in my book though - besides the stress relief, I got this awesome Indian Ocean sunset and a pocket full of cool shells!

No more DGAR fishing reports for a couple of weeks - I'm off to a conference and HOME!!!