[Tarpon guy]

Guys,

I met my daughter and grandsons at BPS Saturday, at about 11:00 AM. They live in Grand Terrace and were doing school shopping just a few miles away. We converged on Victoria Gardens and realized we would be parking a ways from BPS.

Ok, first of all...Wow! What a great store. Second, the crowds were still crazy. The store was paging a guy over the loud speaker saying his wife was looking for him. I joked with my daughter that the lady would not be seeing her husband any time soon. Probably getting her back for all the shopping trips she made him tag along.

The other point to remember when going to BPS is that Victoria Gardens is very busy in general. At least it was on Saturday. I missed the driveway to Joe's Crab Shack because of traffic and it took 15 minutes to make a U-turn back to the parking lot.

I picked up a few things I have not tried. Western Plastics had "Tommy Knockers" swim bait with sort of a Senorita look. I thought they were worth a try.

Since I have just started trying out spinners and regularly use swim baits, I picked up a hybrid spinner/swim bait by Storm. I also bought a pack of very bright neon colored baits, also by Storm. I have not cared for Storm in the past because the swim action was not very good on the baits I tried. These newer baits are softer and look like they will do better.

No chance for fishing this weekend. I hope someone else got out there.