I agree and hope to someday go tarpon fishing. the closest I have come was hooking a small tuna in Mexico a few years ago. No jumps, but it kicked my ass. The photo effects are real nice
Hey TJ, I have had my butt kicked more then once by Tuna in Baja. Not a lot of fun fighting a fish that is straight below the boat in 300 feet of water. Even though tarpon are amazingly strong fish, if you fish for them in the flats they will jump themselves out, verse diving to deep water. I have hooked big tarpon in deep water and it was not a good time..
Florida is hard to beat when it comes to tarpon fishing, and the cost is pretty reasonable if you share the boat with somebody else.
While flying “Map of the Earth” over the Kola Peninsula, we flew over an elite military unit (or so we thought). They were wearing Green/Black Coats, Grey/Black waders and Black Beret’s and hauling ass across the tundra.
Sixty seconds later we landed and aboard came these crazy Swedish fly fishermen. I told them that we though they were Army. They laughed and said they were, “We are the Loop Army”.
That was July 2003 and Joe Roope and I never forgot that chance encounter and we made it a point to track them down.
We joined the Loop Army shortly after and have been on the front lines ever since.
Nice work. That has got to be a rush hooking into a fish that big.
ReplyDeleteI agree and hope to someday go tarpon fishing. the closest I have come was hooking a small tuna in Mexico a few years ago. No jumps, but it kicked my ass. The photo effects are real nice
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Hey TJ, I have had my butt kicked more then once by Tuna in Baja. Not a lot of fun fighting a fish that is straight below the boat in 300 feet of water. Even though tarpon are amazingly strong fish, if you fish for them in the flats they will jump themselves out, verse diving to deep water. I have hooked big tarpon in deep water and it was not a good time..
ReplyDeleteFlorida is hard to beat when it comes to tarpon fishing, and the cost is pretty reasonable if you share the boat with somebody else.
Good luck