Its fun fishing at night and navigating the intercostal with LORAN - Had to sell my boat. I got too old to deal (plus bad back doesn't help)) with the pounding from the chop and the clean up is exhausting but I miss it terribly. First fished the bay when I was 6 years old with my Dad and Grandad. I used to crab and catch them all day when I was a young teen at the Hillsborough Ave bridge. Don't know when you moved but the nearly destroyed the bay fishery with poorly treated sewage discharge and shrimpers tearing up the sea grasses so badly that from about 1985-91 you had to work hard to catch anything. They banned shrimping north of the Skyway and you would not believe how fast it recovered after that - In one year it went from next to impossible to catch anything to a spec on just about every cast. But they were small at first, of course - only having a half year to grow. Now the fishing is fantastic again in the bay - sea grass came back. We could talk fishing all day. I love it.