About Me

I was practically born with a fishing pole in my hands. I grew up in a house that overlooked a large bass pond that was built by my grandfather and I spent most of my childhood fooling fish with artificial lures. As a child I had two loves, fishing and baseball. When I wasn’t fishing I was throwing the baseball and vice versa. After high school,  he New York Yankees drafted me to pitch for them. I signed with the Yankees to pursue a professional baseball career and you’d think my fishing addiction would be put on hold. But, God found it fit to put me in the heart of the best saltwater fishing in all of Florida.

I moved to Tampa Bay Florida to begin my professional baseball career with the New York Yankees. Tampa Bay is the spring training home of the New York Yankees. Everyday, a few of  teammates and I would find time to hunt for new fishing spots before heading off to the ball park or we would fish late into the night after games. I’m still not sure if fishing was the demise of my baseball career or if baseball was the open door to my fishing career. Either way, one thing is for sure, I love fishing and I wouldn’t trade it for any other sport in the world.

I have fished the Tampa Bay area waters for snook, redfish, trout, tarpon, and many other species of fish for well over a decade now and I’ve been very involved in the local fishing community. I’ve been the owner and director for over 24 inshore fishing tournaments and I really enjoy meeting other anglers. I’ve competed in many professional redfish tournaments through the years, 3 of which were on the FLW Wal-Mart Professional Redfish Tour where my teammate and I finished in 17th place out of 175 teams for the 2007 season.

Over 10 years ago, I met my beautiful wife, Paige, here in Tampa and we now have two children;  a son named Cade and a daughter named Claire. We currently reside in Land O Lakes FL where Cade is quickly becoming my #1 fishing buddy. When I’m not on the water with clients, you can often find me fishing with my son on the neighborhood lake or in Tarpon Springs helping Cade catch his favorite fish, redfish.

Thanks for taking the time to learn a little about me. I hope to take you fishing some time soon!

Sincerely,

Capt. Clay Eavenson

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