Then I hear TARPON!!! Chills go down my spine as I turn around and Rob has hooked up with a nice poon and man that thing is goin bonkers! I race to get over to him and capture it on video and got HD video of just about the whole fight! :A1 nice poon rob
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After that little episode. Rob switches his sights to reds since he had already caught a tarpon and trout which would make a Grand Slam! So he heads in while I stay behind staring at my bobber...which is strangely exciting to me watching it move with the waves knowing that at any moment It could dive into the depths marking the begining of a fighting extravaganza! Anyway, I sit...and sit...AND SIT, waiting for the magical moment. A few hours later rob paddles up and says lets go over here man, and with nothing happening for the past few hours I was more than willing! So we make the move and send out the pinfish. No sooner than we arrived, KABOOMMM!! Something absolutely Drills my pin almost taking the rod in! I pick it up and look at the water and the tarpon in my dreams sky rockets! Completly blowing away Rob and I yelling at the top of our lungs. Scrambling to get the footage rolling, I press the record button and the fight is under way.
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I was more than blown away by the body on this tarpon, its brute strength, and jumping capabilities. I will skip the more than three hour fight convo as we thought we had her whooped an hour and a half in. Rob T-boned my yak to add resistance(thank you!)We kept saying alright she is coming backwards now! And then she would take off on a blistering run.(still jumping throught the whole fight...yes three hrs in!) But eventually she fliped sideways and I grabed her as tight as I could with my noodle arms haha. I let go once so this time I put the vice grip on her! With the last bit of energy I had left I had left. I hoisted her out of the water and got some cool shots!
Special thanks to Bakertize and Capncrunch for helping me! Couldn't have done it without you! And littoral for rooting me on during the fight lol
I hope you don't get too big for your britches now. 