My hands are so big they make even this 36" Blacktip look small.
Tarpon Fishing week of July 4th
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Tarpon Fishing week of July 4th
A friend from Virginia comes down each year with the family to do some Florida fishing and decided to try catching some Sharks at St Teresa. On the way out we came into large schools of Tarpon feeding with the moon straight over head early in the mornings. We changed our strategy and started fishing for Tarpon. We are not experienced and there are a great number of logistical problems so we decided to stick with live mullet this day and they worked pretty good. We just could not stay hooked up with the Tarpon. We did get into some nice Jacks and HUGE Gaff-tops. Well we left and I purchased some new rods to fight these Tarpon and improve my odds. What will I do when I get one to the boat and there is a shark on his six, I have not figured out yet, but for the time being I will stay with the lip gaff til I lose an arm. I want to stress that you should do this with someone, so they can tell the story about your last minutes on earth when a 14’ shark cuts you in half with the Tarpon by your side in the water next to the kayak. We went back on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday and got into a lot of tarpon in short periods of time. We did not land one, but we hooked up and gained a little more knowledge each time. I used this big 12" peacock bass lure and Skitter Walk 13 which is a much bigger skitter walk in the silver and gold colors. I did almost lose some fingers to the sharks, but they growback, RIGHT! Check out this Jack that did weigh about 12lbs. At least all of his buddies did.
My hands are so big they make even this 36" Blacktip look small.
My hands are so big they make even this 36" Blacktip look small.
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Yea I think the price to pay to catch a tarpon is a lot more than a trout. I'll just keep on going til I learn what to do. The funny thing is I've gotten more tarpon bites than trout bites lately. And last week during the tournament I should have went back to the tarpon hole to catch trout cause it was loaded.
