For a full day, visit nearby Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, an Italian Renaissance-style villa and formal gardens built in 1916 as the winter residence of industrialist James Deering. The house has 34 rooms of 15th through 19th century antique furnishings. Have lunch at Vizcaya's wonderful and inexpensive Italian cafe and then enjoy the Museum of Science and Space Transit all afternoon. Ticket prices include entrance to all museum galleries, planetarium shows and the wildlife center. The virtual-reality fishing simulators delight kids and adults of all ages as they reel in marlin, sailfish, tarpon, trout and bass.
Kids can feed the fish here too.
The IGFA offers still more with an 18-minute film entitled Journeys, free monthly family fishing clinics, a junior angler program and traveling exhibits. Visit before the end of June to see Fabricated Fish Tales of Capt. Honk, a presentation of oversized, brightly colored fish sculptures made from recycled materials like flotsam, jetsam and different items the artist collected during walks along the shoreline. A tour of the entire museum should take about two hours. Stop by Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World, right next door, for just about anything you need for fishing or camping.