Short-timing in Jacksonville

[SharonA]

(I posted the "Intro" stuff under "What do you do?" rather than as its own thread - oops)

IT consultant, a freelancer with my own one-woman LLC. I have worked in a number of different industries over the years but specialize in retail, payment systems, and fraud.

I am a middle-aged female who used to fish a lot as a kid - Grandpa started taking me out with him when I was 3 - and has enjoyed fishing with clients. My taxlady won't let me claim the non-re$ident fi$hing licen$e fees as a client entertainment expense, dangit - I could deduct the charter, but not my own license! My husband has zero interest in fishing so it's been something I generally do only when on the road.

I found this site while searching for public night fishing spots around Jacksonville, as I'm working here for a few weeks. My home is in northern GA.

Currently I'm ISO a place around Jax where a middle-aged female can safely fish solo *at night*. My job's not very flexible during the day. I'm not after any particular type of fish and would just be releasing, as my hotel room has only a stovetop and zilch capacity for real cooking.

Today I took my nephews, aged 4 and 6, out fishing. It was more like "photo opportunity for the adults at the boat ramp at Grandma's condo community". The 4-yr old caught a variety of floating vegetation and then announced he had to make up a story about fish so he could lie like real fishermen do. (Now having recovered from the kid-wrangling, I'm finding myself wanting to go out fishing NOW ... danged pier, why can't they be 24-hours?)

[gruntking]

well i guess welcome to the forum

sure wish i could help you out on a place to fish up there

[kblue]

My taxlady won't let me claim the non-re$ident fi$hing licen$e fees as a client entertainment expense, dangit - I could deduct the charter, but not my own license!

Welcome Sharon.

Just curious about your taxlady's comment on fishing license...were you able to deduct any fishing gear (rod,reel, etc)?

BTW, I don't know anything around Jacksonville. Sorry I couldn't help.

[SharonA]

Just curious about your taxlady's comment on fishing license...were you able to deduct any fishing gear (rod,reel, etc)?

Nope, the only deductible part was a charter. I was getting too much personal benefit from the other stuff.

If I didn't already have hunting/fishing license for my home state (for over a decade), and had rented the gear for just one occasion, then we maybe could have tried the argument it really was purely a business thing.

The Florida license IIRC was $47 freshwater + $47 saltwater.

Thanks for the welcome! Catch anything good this weekend?

[SharonA]

well i guess welcome to the forum

sure wish i could help you out on a place to fish up there

Thank you! From the looks of it, there's not much NE Florida activity here. I did post in the local forum, maybe that'll bring out some lurkers.