The Wandering Disciple

Eugenio Suarez of the Lakeland Flying Tigers slides into second under the tag of the Charlotte Stone Crabs second baseman Hector Guevara during a Florida State League contest at Charlotte Sports Park. (Photo: April 28, 2013)

A laughing gull flies over the beach at Brohard Beach in Venice. The beach is home to many species of shorebirds and snow birds thanks to the warm Florida climate. (Photo: April 14, 2013)

The Venice Pier extends into the Gulf of Mexico by the popular Sharky's at the Pier restaurant.  The 700 foot pier is a popular place to cast a line and wait for a fish or to sit back and enjoy the Florida sunset.  (Photo: April 14, 2013)

Fire fighters from the Englewood Fire Department perform venelation training on an abandoned church building in Englewood.  Members of the EFD used the building to perform various training evolutions prior to the building being demolished.  (Photo: March 28, 2013)

Bradenton Marauders infielder Alen Hansen turns two over a sliding Brandon Macias as the Marauders hosted the Brevard County Manatees at historic McKechnie Field.  (Photo: April 30, 2013)

Charlotte Stone Crabs first baseman Alejandro Segovia makes a play on a pop-up in a Florida State League game against the Fort Myers Miracle. Segovia is in his sixth season in the Tampa Bay Rays organization after being signed as an international free agent in 2007. (Photo: May 19, 2013)

Venice & Englewood, Florida: The nice crisp fall weather provided by the first cold front of the year provide great weather for a fishing Sunday. Although we were battling low tide conditions, we still managed to catch five fish in the group with my wife leading the group with three, I had two and my Dad had one. Following our success last trip, we decided to go to the South Jetty again. We armed ourselves with 2-dozen live shrimp from the Crows Nest and hit the rocks. First shrimp in the water and my wife already had a fish. Her first was a Mangrove Snapper. But we were fighting a really fast current in the Jetty enhanced by the outgoing tide. So we decided to go the Gulf side of the rocks where nothing was happening except watching a Manatee playing in the water about thirty yards offshore. We decided to hop around a bit and try some new locations. The first of these was the boat ramp at the Venice Train Depot. Despite some rather large Snook under the docks, there...