Got out with Kiff and Alan today for a full day trip. Tarpon was on the list so we gave it a go. We happened to see some tarpon on our way into the backcountry, and stopped and set up on them. Jumped one right away and then got a few sharks. We had several moving by us for about 20 minutes, it looked good… But nothing happened. We were about to leave when we hooked a nurse shark, and then after we landed him the other rod went off and Kiff hooked a nice 70 lb tarpon! We landed that one and got some pictures, mission accomplished! After that we jumped around trying a few other areas in there but seemed like it was over. We finished the day doing other stuff, struggled a little to get on a good bite but we put a good catch together overall with about 16 redfish, a few snook, some trout, a tripletail, and a few other odds and ends. 1 for 2
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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