Good to be home after so long... moving to FL (aka: Float Tube wasteland)

A fabulous company in FL has made me a wonderful offer, so my wife and I are relocating there - likely around Christmas or there abouts...

That's the great news. Been traveling back and forth, trying to sell the farm in MD, set up the office in FL, etc...

The bad news: FL is a float tube wasteland. I get gators and snakes - but man... what about in the bays?

Nope. Nada.

Sad.

I'll be back in SoCal for Opening Day in April 2018. And I'll surely duck out to the Bays over the next few weekends.

Lots of Bass fishing in FL. And, that big blue thing is the Atlantic... a few fish in there.

What a remarkable few weeks its been.

-K

Welcome back dude! Pleasure to meet you. Can I guess you are talking about April 2019? Looking forward to hopefully meeting up and floating some day

I have been watching this on FB congrats on the new job and your exciting new move. We will be sorry to see you leave the area, but you can always hit us up on the forum to share your fishing adventures out in FL. We will be sure to make you jealous with all the Float Tube trip and pictures.

Florida native from Tampa. Don't know where you will be, but if near the gulf you are in great shape for inshore. Lots of bays, and tidal rivers. Redfish, snook, etc. And kayaks. Along the north and central east coast there is the inland waterway, with the same kinds of populations. Mosquito Lagoon within an hour or so of Orlando--right near Cape Canaveral-- has a well deserved reputation.

Of course there are those wonderful spring fed rivers in the middle of the state if the population explosion hasn't dried them up by now. We certainly tubed them in auto and truck inner tubes back in the distant day when inner tubes were still about--although fishing was not the primary interest for college boys with college girls near.

I can recommend the web site, Saltstrong. They have tons of information--primarily on fishing the flats and mangrove shore lines for reds, snook and trout. Their home water is Tampa Bay, but one of their main guys fishes those east coast inland waters primarily.