What a trip it was to Washington, D.C., with the bus of fishermen.
It was 18 hours up and 17 hours back — all for a three-hour United We Fish march on the Capitol.
As we got off the bus at Union Station there were 10 other buses unloading from New Jersey and others coming in from all over the United States. On the two-block walk up to the Capitol, we ran into folks from Clearwater and St. Petersburg.
And before you knew it, our group of 35 or more that was on the bus that left from Capt. Anderson’s Marina on Panama City Beach, had gotten lost in the crowd.
I remember at one point looking around and the only familiar faces I could see were Capt. Ken Bolden and deckhand Tom Stewart.