Tarpon Fishing Boca Grande Florida

[Gerry Zagorski]

Dubya - if Tarpon is on your bucket list then Boca Grrande is the place to get it done. When you are ready let me know and I will fill you in.... Best months are May and June and you are practically guaranteed to catch if you have a good Captain. In fact. some even give you a guarantee and if you don't catch you don't pay. There is a very particular way they fish for them in the pass so best to charter someone.

Dales - Did you notice the shirt he was wearing??? NJ RFA baby!!

Chico - I hear you on the Pass... Gets pretty crowded during the day which is why we chose to fishing in the evening. Big to do going on with the traditional guys trying to get jigging outlawed. One of the fish we jumped had jig cuts all along the side of it's body and the Captain mentioned they did a study on jig fishing and found that more then 75% of the fish were snagged instead of hooked in the mouth.

Looks like a great trip Gerry. Saw you had egg sinkers on your line in the vidoe, were you jigging the tarpon or using live bait? How were the hammerheads when you were there. They have a tendency of wreaking havoc on hooked tarpon!

Dakota

[Gerry Zagorski]

Dakota - We were fishing with live bait, Crabs and Squirrel fish. Sharks were not an issue for us but the Captain said they have been pretty pesky and freaking some of the customers out. He said he had a 12 plus footer come up right along side the boat last week and stayed with them for 10 minutes as was actually looking them right in the eye. Pretty freaky

When we were back bay fishing using cut baits we have several small Black Tips take the baits and one Ray that we fought and released was easily over 100 pounds.

[shrimpman steve]

I hate you

By the way, the last time I jumped a 140 pounder I had to buy her dinner