konz

That's right folks, I caught a Tarpon! Friday night Ken (bigrigz) and I decided that we were going to go out in his boat and catch some bait for beach sharking event the next night. We motored around for a while trying to net some bait without much luck.....so we decided to fish with artificials. I threw on my fav. jerk bait and Ken and I loaded up on some ladyfish and white trout. After about 2 hours we had a cooler full of fat bait and decided to cruise around looking for some specks or spanish. We saw some bait busting the surface and decided to make a few casts. On my second cast I landed another ladyfish. Ken suggested that we move but I wanted to make a couple more casts.....on my 4th cast BAM FISH OOOONNNN! The fish immediatly jumped out of the water and I started thinking "man that is a huge ladyfish" hahaha. After some screaming drag, 5 leaps, and one missed netting attemp we had the sucker in the net.......and then the shock set in and we started hooting and hollering like a bunch of kids at Disney Land! We took some pics of mereleasing the fish pronto! I didn't weigh nor measure the fish b/c I wanted it in the water as soon as possible. We guesstimated the fish at around 40 inches.

Side note, the title came from something Ken said

The fish was caught on 10lb suffix and a shimano sahara 2500.

Clay Peacher

Congratulations - Cool story, Cool pix. The last picture reminds me of the Captain D's commercials.

GigABite

Nice catch man! At least you were able to catch one. All I could do was wave bye bye to the pod ofmonster Tarpon I saw Saturday morning. Good stuff...congrats.

Gig

J.Sharit

Konz! you are the Man....... It's always fun to catch that unexpected prize. Somebody up there likes ya. Way to go.

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JoeZ

That last pic is awesome.

Send me the full resolution version and I'll see if I can't get it published in Florida Fishing Weekly.

TURTLE

That fish looks about the same size as the one I saw tearing up some crabs at the launch in the back of my neighborhood. Is that the most common size we have up this far north? Or have you seen bigger ones cought?Either way looks like you had a great time , congats:bowdown

konz

haha that's all i need, my ugly mug on the cover of a magazine getting fish slapped......hahaha

PM me the email address you want me to send it to.

skullworks

Congrats! That is awesome! That pic is priceless!!!!

:bowdownbowdown:clap

Fishermon

great catch Konz!!! congrats!!! aAwesome picture....Tarpon knew what she was doing.....:clap

Halfmoon

Congrats!!!! I see it gave you a Tarpon kiss.