We hit the water early Saturday, north of Keaton and started picking up fish as soon as we stopped. Water temp was around 80-83 all weekend. The trout bite continued until around 1130. Dad picked up 2 nice 18" fish right off the bat and I followed up on our first drift with this nice 24" trout (looked like she had already droped most of her eggs, very little roe).
- DL 24" Trout no Roe
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The highlight of the trip had to be when I was working my popping cork back to the boat when something took it. I thought it was a large trout for maybe 1/2 second the my drag on my shimano began to scream. I let him go then gave one quick jerk and the water exploded with a very large tarpon probably around 75 -100lbs. I was using 10lb test fireline with a 30lb. leader. I thought it would be a 20 second fight but we cranked up the boat up and began the chase.
Luckily, I had my camera in my pocket that does video and I handed it off to NJ. He fired it up and actually got a few nice breaches on film. The whole fight lasted about 15 minutes and we were weaving around other boats and going through their drifts, sorry. I have the video below I posted on YouTube. The first video has one jump about 13 seconds in and the next has 2 jumps right next to the boat before he made a circle around my popping cork and broke it off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD5UurG9Nwg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFJNXms338E
We finished off the Saturday with 15 trout and one spanish.
- Saturday's catch
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- NJ and DL
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Sunday
- Sunday
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