Born in Tampa in 1954, I have lived and fished the Tampa area my entire life. In the mid 1990's I decided to make Tampa fishing my career.

To that end I opened Shell Point Bait and Tackle, located at the mouth of the Little manatee River and Tampa Bay, where I operated both a Bait and Tackle business and a fishing charter business.


In June of 2006 the marina that Shell Point Bait and Tackle was located in was sold and the lease for the bait shop was lost.