Nice report and sounds like a fun morning!
Funny how that Bass targets people's trout stringers. I've seen it in FL all the time. A certain boat pulls in and the dock and the Tarpon start swarming waiting for them to clean their fish and throw them some scraps. They definitely get trained over time and know the signs of an easy meal coming.
We fish down in Boca Grande every spring on a boat know for Tarpon and the captain is constantly shadowed by Sharks waiting for a Tarpon hook up. He's convinced the sharks know his boat.
I guess since you named the fish it wouldn't be right to fish for him but it is tempting
