About

Almost immediately after my family moved from Brooklyn, NY to Miami Beach at the age of 9, I bought my first rod and reel. A Mitchell 304 as all the other kids in the neighborhood had. There was water in every direction you looked!  We lived across the street from the 85th Street Bridge and that's where it all started.

With white or yellow buck tailed jigs, I started fishing the bridges and running and casting along the seawalls behing private homes which were plentiful on "The Beach". Fish were plentiful as well. There was hardly a morning that went by that we didn't catch a bunch of Jack, and an occasional Snook or Tarpon.

I never had the patience for bait fishing. Maybe when I get old, it might be a good alternative to feeding pigeons in the park!

I got a little taste of Bass Fishing up in the Gainesville, Central Florida area when attending college in the early 1970's. But it wasn't until a few years later when I went out into The Everglades and the obsession hit!
  

Since then, I've been fishing Lake Okeechobee and the Florida Everglades almost exclusively and certainly regularly.

As early as the mid 1980's, being not satisfied with store bought soft plastics, I started fooling around with pouring my own baits. The resources for doing that were not as plentiful and advanced as they are today. I quickly became dissatified with the results and put in on the back burner.

It wasn't until three years ago that I found a renewed interest in "hand poured baits" and quickly became engulfed in it again! It has rekindled the enthusiasm I once had and will continue pouring for as long as that enthusiasm lasts! Thank you for visiting my site!

Richard