Five minutes after I had opened Buzzy’s Country Store this past Saturday morning a lady came in and asked for some bait and ice. As I fetched the bait from the freezer, I secretly smiled and thought to myself “Yes! The season has begun.”

While it was my first ice sale of the year, I had previously sold some bait a few Weeks back to someone renting one of Peggy’s places at RoDo Beach. As he paid for the bait, the young man informed me that he just wanted to let his kids throw a hook over and act like they were fishing even though he knew they weren’t going to catch anything. I guess that that is another beauty of fishing, you can let the kids have some fun and teach them a lesson simultaneously that you are not always going to catch fish when you try to do so.

Back to my Saturday ice and bait customer, she told me that her husband and family were camping at Pt. Lookout and had checked in Friday afternoon. “We saw all your people sitting out on the porch when we went by.” When I asked where she was from she said somewhat sheepishly “Leonardtown. This is our first time out this year and we figured since the weather was going to be so nice let’s go for the night. My husband calls it our shakedown trip.”

I laughed at her reference to a one night shakedown trip because Friday evening my friend Tracey, who works at Pt. Lookout, had told me that they several of the people staying at Pt. Lookout had booked only for one night. Her guess was that with Easter on Sunday and Saturday’s weather being so nice, many people used this first weekend open at the Point to do their initial shakedown trips of the season.

Speaking of Shakedown, only one song to play here. It features some great solos from Jerry and look closely to see if you don’t think that one of the drummers looks a little like my friend Steve Fadley there in the background (00:27.)

For a video with lyrics (click here.) “Maybe the dark is from your eyes.” “Sometimes you just gotta poke around.” “Maybe you had too much too fast.” “Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart.” “You can never tell.”