I was fortunate enough to Tarpon fish with a co-workers father last night.
He is in his 70's and does not fish for them anymore but I tell ya .... he knows where they are and he put us on em last night.
We had two hookups with one lasting a good 5 minutes and 2 good leaps.
Estimated to be a 50-60 lb fish.
We never boated any but it was a great time.
I had only caught one about 10 yrs ago at the Navy piers in Key west.

Wish I could stay another night but work calls.

We were using cut spot in around 2 feet of water.

I will try to post some pics later, maybe some of you will recognize the spot.

So far I have hooked and landed everything in the bay (Got a cobia this year). Didn't know Tarpon came up this far. Were did you fish for them?

Everyone knows there are no tarpon on the ES!

I have been on the hunt for a Virginia Tarpon for the last few weeks.

No success as of yet.. I have made 4 trips there so far. Hopefully
I will find success soon. I found a place they frequent but no takers
for my line.

Tom

seeing them to me is success. glad to see more people trying to learn this fish.

love to try it sometime ... give up the spot fishwater! cut bait in 2 foot of water?! man i would have figured something live and in the deeper channels like magothy or ship shoal inlet.

pretty work out there .... need to learn more.

bo

Hey Fishwater were you in two foot or water or 12 foot? Never heard of fishing them in 2 foot. Might something new to try.

Yea I know, but that's where we sat in 2 ft of water. From what I was told there was a slew that ran by our spot that was a little deeper like 6-9 ft.

Interesting. We caught a 70lber this year and jumped off another one. We were in 15ft of water.