Yep, they're here
Posted: Sat May 09, 2015 1:11 pm
Launched at Casperson...or was it Longboat key? Come to think of it, it may have been Nokomis Beach. It was dark, can't recall. In the water at first light.
Bait was easy (for me) and while my fishing buddy was still trying to get his first pinfish, I got my first tarpon. Didn't have it long as it half jumped and spit the squirrelfish back at me.
Not long after my fishing buddy raided my bait bucket, I hooked another and this one was stuck. Some tarpon come easy and some don't. This one fell into the 'don't' category. I had her alongside 4 times, sliding her backwards and then she'd wake up and take off again. Had leader in the tip a dozen times. She just wouldn't quit.
On the 5th alongside she did that wake up thing again and tail slapped my line into submission.
It was after I'd let him raid my bait bucket that my buddy told me he didn't have a camera. If he comes on here and says "what tarpon?" he'll never again get bait from me.
Bait was easy (for me) and while my fishing buddy was still trying to get his first pinfish, I got my first tarpon. Didn't have it long as it half jumped and spit the squirrelfish back at me.
Not long after my fishing buddy raided my bait bucket, I hooked another and this one was stuck. Some tarpon come easy and some don't. This one fell into the 'don't' category. I had her alongside 4 times, sliding her backwards and then she'd wake up and take off again. Had leader in the tip a dozen times. She just wouldn't quit.
On the 5th alongside she did that wake up thing again and tail slapped my line into submission.
It was after I'd let him raid my bait bucket that my buddy told me he didn't have a camera. If he comes on here and says "what tarpon?" he'll never again get bait from me.
