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I was fishing just north of the power plant in the St. Marks last week, landing a bunch of Sheepshead and several rat reds, when I noticed a few certain fish rolling near my boat. They dang sure looked like tarpon, the movement and coloring was the same I saw when I lived down south in the Cocoa area. Now a buddy of mine who has lived here his whole life said they were Carp and not Tarpon. Now I had Carp in a pond near my home in Orlando and I never seen a Carp roll like a Tarpon or grow silver scales. Any truth to my story, just curious.
We get tarpon but they are usually here during the warmer weather.
There is a lot of activity near Alligator Point and Lanark.
Could they have been Gar?
What does the rest of the group think?
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bman wrote:We get tarpon but they are usually here during the warmer weather.
There is a lot of activity near Alligator Point and Lanark.
Could they have been Gar?
What does the rest of the group think?
Probably a gar.....But there are resident tarpon that stay around....a undisclosed BBF.NET member hooked a 3 foot one a few weeks ago between here and there...
Well maybe it was a Gar, because I threw everything at it but my anchor. Either way it was cool to see and a great day of fishing. FYI, I took my 4 year old out with me today to the same spot and on his second fishing trip ever, he hooked up with a little 16" Redfish. His grin afterwards was absolutely priceless.
Ratred wrote: FYI, I took my 4 year old out with me today to the same spot and on his second fishing trip ever, he hooked up with a little 16" Redfish. His grin afterwards was absolutely priceless.