Yesterday, 6-25-04, Henley and I went exploring down 41 and stumbled across this bay where we saw a bunch of juvenile tarpon rolling in the heat of the day. We threw a few jerk baits at one fish with no luck and continued on down the road, knowing that I'd be back the next day with a little boat to get me in there...

Well I showed up there at around 10:00 am today, and got on the water as soon as I could before the mosquitos carried me away. The tarpon were still rolling, but caught only a few decent snook early. After exploring this bay, I saw a snook whack the surface and got my exude plastic bait right in front of him and he took it hard. I saw that this was probably the biggest snook that I have ever had on when he jumped and almost hit my boat. Keep in mind im in a 10' Wilderness Systems Pungo100 and this fish is going to take me where ever he wants to. He wanted to go into the mangroves, imagine that! I won't even finish that story, but on to the good part...

I was throwing plastics near the tarpon I saw rolling, and got a bunch of hits, and landed 2 fish, the first one was about 5 lbs. and the second was about 3 lbs...





I think next time I'll throw in my gheenoe, and work this area via the fly rod, heck, maybe tomorrow...

Hey Dave- Can't wait to go back in there. We should be able to get one of those big girls out of the bushes, if one of us is able to pole backwards after a hookup. Those fish should be willing to play all summer, but the bugs may be a different story. Glad you were able to get your hands on some 'poon-We ought to be able to get some killer video for the site next time. I'll talk to you later...

I think I know the spot you are fishing and I have tossed plugs via kayak and got no poon action. Today i went to that very lagoon and used a yellow leadhead jig with small twister in black and released some nice snook. The afternoon rains came and only saw a couple small Tarpon roll.
Would love to tie into the small Tarpon for catch and release fun from the yak.