Flamingo 10/31/09
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:28 pm
Headed down to Flamingo with Walter and his wife Margeret, and my buddy Angelo, weather was nice with a 74 degree sunrise and light winds out of the east. The moon was completely full yet but it did weigh slightly on my mind early that morning as it took a bit of searching to find the fish.
At first we were catching barracudas and ladyfish near snake bight but then we ran into a few roving pods of tarpon rolling all around the vicinity of snake bight channel. Mostly smaller fish in the 12-20lb range but a few bruisers were mixed in, we jumped about 7 fish and landed two.
These were Walters' first tarpon so he was pretty content, what impressed me is that he hooked two and landed both of them...my ratio is nowhere near his thus far perfect hook to landing ratio.
We were off the water around 12:30, on the way I decided to check out Pa-hay-okee as I haven't in many years...beautiful place we got in our backyards is all I can say.
At first we were catching barracudas and ladyfish near snake bight but then we ran into a few roving pods of tarpon rolling all around the vicinity of snake bight channel. Mostly smaller fish in the 12-20lb range but a few bruisers were mixed in, we jumped about 7 fish and landed two.
These were Walters' first tarpon so he was pretty content, what impressed me is that he hooked two and landed both of them...my ratio is nowhere near his thus far perfect hook to landing ratio.
We were off the water around 12:30, on the way I decided to check out Pa-hay-okee as I haven't in many years...beautiful place we got in our backyards is all I can say.