1st poon of 2010 from the kayak...great action and lots of high flying for the 8wt and 10lb tippet...the electric dread (as usual) sealed the fate....
kayak tarpon
1st poon of 2010 from the kayak...great action and lots of high flying for the 8wt and 10lb tippet...the electric dread (as usual) sealed the fate....
Way yonder cool as always Cordell...The Dread is deadly again
What's in the baskets? And where do you sit?
Hugs,
LF
those are my stripping baskets in case of heavy winds and rains etc....I rarely use them except when on the move...once I cast I dont strip back into the basket until last cast...seat is in the middle but remember that I rarely sit down unless in super tight area...it is laid out to attack like a dbl throwing star....if cast both on the front and off the back and even the sides....I have complete stability
Sweet fish!!!
Tarpon is the one fish that I really would like to catch someday. Very good fish. Do they pull the kayak very far?
"Next to a healthy 10 pound carp a brook trout can look like a minnow in a clown suit"
small tarpon like this dont really pull the kayak at all...nothing like a bonefish or a redfish...they are all about
aerobatics
and when they feel resistance they jump instead of dig and burn...most times they dont even hit the backing but you have to do lots of "bowing to the King" to keep the tippet from snapping...they clear huge distance and also touch the tail to the nose while jumping, maybe even twice in the same jump...pretty fun to catch...20lb bite leader barely held
Friends on another site have been pulled 2-3 miles out into the Gulf of Mexico. The fishing partner takes the pic and they paddle back in.Originally Posted by steveks
A drift chute works well and/or hangin' your feet over the kayak. Just be careful of the Hammerheads and Bullsharks that follow the Tarpon.
"Only the half-mad are wholly alive." ~~ Edward Abbey
You didn't keep this tarpon, did you? It appears dead in the photo.
Has the tarpon season been reopened in Florida? Due to the Jan/Feb. fishkill in the record cold snap in FL, the tarpon and bonefish season had been closed until April and then the FWC would decide if it would reopen.
dude let me set you straight...I am a guide for a living....I am one of the 40 hand picked guides from TARBONE and one of the most prolific taggers on the books...I tag bones, tarpon, redfish and permit and am a professional in every way...I also take fin clips and am in constant contact with the University of Miami Rosenstiel School...much of what you read about florida bonefish is based on MY research
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