Today
with Lin & Ollie Tarpon was the target. The ocean was a little bumpy, the
water temperature was just under 80 degrees and the Super Full Moon was on us.
Not ideal conditions at all for Tarpon. Surprisingly though we began to see fish
along the beach. Not surprising was their actions. Lin & Ollie managed 3
bites on live threadfins but no hookups. It was as though the Tarpon just
killed the baits and then spat them out. When the Tarpon stopped showing along
the beach we changed gears to Snook fishing. Not long into Snook fishing Lin
hooked a decent size Tarpon (of course). He could not have had more challenging
conditions. We had a ripping outgoing tide, boats in and out of the inlet,
channel markers to deal with and of course the fish ran across the inlet and
round a marker. Lin backed off the drag and hoped for the best. As soon as the
boat traffic calmed we floated out through the nasty outgoing tide rip and
around the marker. Much to our surprise the fish was still on. It then
proceeded to stay in the roughest part of the inlet while Lin fought it. Many
years of fishing experience helped Lin land the fish that should not have been.
Some days you lose fish you think you should land, today was one of those days
when we landed a fish we really didn’t think we had a chance on landing, I’ll
take a few more of those please !
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