Got out with Mike and his son and daughter, Mike and Jill, today for a full day. Tarpon was a request so we focused on that most of the day. I checked a few spots early while waiting on the tide to change but didn’t see a whole lot. I ran to where we’d been having luck the last few days to give it a whirl. Once the tide got moving, the sharks got active. Blacktips, bonnetheads, and some big lemons! Didn’t have a tarpon bite early on though. I moved once and caught a big blacktip, but still no tarpon. Did see a few fish rolling here and there though not often. On the 3rd move we got on them, and had a flurry of action that lasted about 10 minutes. We jumped off one small fish right away. Then about 5 minutes later we hooked one that we got up to the wind-on leader, about 15 feet from the boat, though he jumped and threw the hook there. A technical release since we had the leader. The third bite came about 5 minutes after that. Jill got a nice little tarpon about a 25 lber. He jumped and went crazy several times, but we got him to the boat and up for a few pictures before releasing him. After that things slowed down for tarpon. We caught a few more sharks, and tried some different channels, but no luck. We finished the day catching a few trout and ladyfish. 2 for 3
