Though the real estate developers sold off most of the land, relatively few people in the world knew where Hudson was. Those who did, usually associated it with fishing. The first settlers depended on the sport for food as well. Now, with the canals bringing the Gulf into everyone's backyard, sports fishing reigned supreme. In cold weather trout and redfish swam into the canals, and it was usual even for amateurs to catch 4-6 pound trout. Fish were plentiful and the fishermen were waiting for them. Experienced fishermen were catching 50-75 a day. The most popular canal was the one parallel to Clark St. on the way to the beach, at times 150 fishermen were there at a time.

A St. Pete Times writer wondered about the 'fish stories' coming from fishermen on the Hudson canals and arrived on Jan. 3, 1959 only to write the following in the paper the next day, "We saw the greatest display of trout fishing in years. 3 pounders were the routine, 4 pounders were strewn around like logs, and 5 pounders numbered a half dozen that morning." The writer was Red Marston. Fishing influenced people to buy a home here in the 1960's, as stories of the catches being landed fell on more and more ears. Not only Hudson people, but visitors came during the 1960's-70's from New Port Richey, Brooksville, Dade City, even Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater.

While Sea Pines and Leisure Beach were being built west of 19 as the last waterfront communities of their kind, developers began looking east as well, to the virgin land on the other side of US 19. A whole host of projects were begun in the 1970's here. The heavy hitter was the Beacon Woods project of state of the art homes. Today, Beacon Woods is a nice mix of fine homes from the 1980's to today. They sit on good sized lots, many have pools and lanai screen enclosures. Other subdivisions built up during the 1970's and 80's include Hudson Terrace, Taylor Terrace, the Garden Terrace and Florestate Trailer Parks, Heritage Village, Brown Acres, Palm Terrace, Coventry Green, Country Club Estates, Gulf Highlands, San Clemente, Senate Mobile Homes, Ponderosa Park and, of course, Beacon Woods.

Later on in the 1990's luxury homes and subdivisions have entered into interesting Hudson mosaic of... standards of living. Beacon Woods East, Berkeley Woods, The Estates and other new subdivisions are being sold out at an astonishing rate, as more and more people find Hudson's great cost of living and beautiful scenery conducive to a happy day to day life.