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Yup! Finally did it. I'd guess it went about 60 lbs and I had it on for about 15 minutes. Chug Bug with 20lb leader . It jumped at least 10 times and I lost it 5 minutes into trying to slowly paddle back to shore & get a pic off my friends cell phone. So, no pic. Oh well. I did get concerned about the possibility of the fish landing in the kayak because it kept coming back underneath, circling and jumping with the first bit of pressure. I had 5-6 more near misses from Tarpon chasing topwater and one 30 second hookup on another. Bait everywhere.
Otherwise I caught a bunch of other stuff but so what.
Oh yeah, got checked by FMP for the first time in my kayak.
Adding this: replaying it over and over I'm realizing that the whole thing was like slow motion. I expected violence and mayhem when I imagined catching a Tarpon from my kayak but it was more like a great big fish slowly summoning up the energy to get up in the air for big lazy fall back into the water.
Last edited by Littoral on September 2nd, 2007, 9:21 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Nice job with the Tarpon. I fished Alligator Harbor yesterday in my yak from first light tiill noon and didn't see any Tarpon. What a difference a day makes. Way to go!
TallyFish wrote:Nice job with the Tarpon. I fished Alligator Harbor yesterday in my yak from first light tiill noon and didn't see any Tarpon. What a difference a day makes. Way to go!
Did you see a lot of bait? Stands to reason that's why I saw them today -though I didn't plan to fish for them. I've seen them a lot this summer but I've never seen them chasing bait (or lures!) as aggresively as they were today.
I got stopped by "the man" yesterday and he was telling us about you. Not specifically, but "a feller in a kayak caught a 60lb tarpon." We must have been fishing in your area. I got a hold of something that ran line off of the spool like nobody's business, turned around, so I had to frantically take up slack, turned again, began to run line, and then broke off. I could only imagine what it was. No jumps so...
Congratulations, on the Tarpon. We were out there Saturday and got some great footage of Talltails with some shark fights. One took a good sweep at his arm. We started out looking for poons but didn't even see one greyhound. Caught some nice Reds too.
. It jumped at least 10 times and I lost it 5 minutes into trying to slowly paddle back to shore & get a pic off my friends cell phone. So, no pic. Oh well. I did get concerned about the possibility of the fish landing in the kayak because it kept coming back underneath, circling and jumping with the first bit of pressure. I had 5-6 more near misses from Tarpon chasing topwater and one 30 second hookup on another. Bait everywhere. 
