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Sailfish
 
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| 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 me releasing 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. 
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Mingo
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| Congratulations - Cool story, Cool pix. The last picture reminds me of the Captain D's commercials.
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Ruby Red Lip
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| Nice catch man! At least you were able to catch one. All I could do was wave bye bye to the pod of monster Tarpon I saw Saturday morning. Good stuff...congrats. Gig
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Trigger
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Konz! you are the Man....... It's always fun to catch that unexpected prize. Somebody up there likes ya. Way to go.
And in the days that followed the islanders came to know him as kane mano, the shark hunter....... Angler formerly known as "kanemano" http://www.forumpictureprocessor.com/gallery.asp?gallery=1718 "TEAM KANE MANO" "The 2008 Spring Unoffical PFF Shark Tourney Winners!"
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Sailfish
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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.
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Trigger
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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
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