FLA KEYS Report......

[JDTuna]

Hardhead cat. Venomous and hurt a lot if they stick you.

Did you try crabs and live mullet by the bridges for tarpon?

[bulletbob]

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[dfish28]

What few things I can say, those hardhead cats have an awesome skeletal structure in there heads, my Grandfather used to catch them while fishing for better fish but he knew if you buried them and let the flesh rot off you would get this amazing part from its skull bone if you look at it after it was all cleaned off it looked like Jesus on the Cross... sounds weird but I saw them myself, cool little thing to know if ya have the time

[Duffman]

Originally Posted by JDTuna

Did you try crabs and live mullet by the bridges for tarpon?

We used live shrimp and pinfish around the bridges. Threw spoons on the spinning gear and tried countless different flies on the fly gear. All we got were follows.

We werent allowed to have the rental out before sunup or after sundown so the fishing in the dark was all done from land. Even then we got follows and no hookups. Only saw one guy connect to a tarpon all week and that quickly came unbuttoned.

Thanks for the id on the cat. Helluva lot of fun on the light spin gear!

[AndyS]

Pretty cool, guess it's ho-hum to them but to visitors it's cool exotics !