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Written by Capt. Jake Jordan
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Florida Keys Tarpon Fishing Report
May 15, 16, 17, & 18th 2008
Greeting from Tarpon World:
May 15, 2008,
We woke up to a south wind of 20 to 25 knots which sent us into the back country looking for laid up Tarpon. I found a few fish however with the high wind and 60 percent cloud cover Danny had a hard time getting the fly to those spooky Silver King. We quit early so I could catch up on some maintenance on my equipment, the weather forecast calls for the wind to go to the Southeast and drop to 10 knots tomorrow.
May 16, 2008,
Danny Cline from West Virginia and I launched on Big Pine Key at 9:00 AM with sunny skies and a southeast wind at 15 knots and dropping. We fished a couple of hours looking for laid up Tarpon in the back country, had a dozen good shots but could not get a bite. We headed out to the ocean side flats to look for migrating fish about noon as the wind died down to 5-10 knots and the waves went away.
During The next 3 hours we saw 50 Tarpon in small groups or singles, and then the flood gates opened just as predicted. during the next hour more than 500 Tarpon swam past us, they were on top and happy fish. Unfortunately or fortunately Danny was only able to cast to the first group from which he hooked a 100 pound Tarpon on a "Green Headed Cockroach" fly, (which I had tied on an old mustad hook 15 years ago), for the next 20 minutes he got 5 jumps and chased that Tarpon for over a mile. As 4 more schools of up to 100 fish swam past Danny fought that POON close to the boat when all of a sudden the Tarpon jumped and the hook came out! The light faded so it was now hard to see the Tarpon coming, I am sure tomorrow will be awesome! More reports to follow.
May 17, 2008,
Today Danny Cline and I fished the flats on the ocean side of Big Pine Key, where we saw about 200 Tarpon moving both east and west. Danny had at least 50 good shots at these migrating Tarpon however we never even had a single bite. I just do not know why these fish are so spooky. Danny will be back down here in a week for another 6 days of fly fishing for Tarpon.
After 8 days of fly fishing for the elusive silver king, Danny Cline' score was as follows: 14 Tarpon Jumped on fly, 2 broke off, 8 pulled the hooks (two of those were within a rod length of a release) and 4 Tarpon were released.
One of Danny's Tarpon
May 18, 2008,
Today Jon Ziarnik from Cudjoe Key Florida and Bob Crispin from Portland Maine, began their 3 days of fly fishing for Tarpon. Bob had never even seen a live Tarpon however he is an accomplished striper fisherman. The wind was blowing from the South at 15 knots so we headed into the back country to get away from the waves which were breaking on the beach. We found about 30 Tarpon in the morning when Jon hooked a 9- pound male which jumped 5 times and towed the skiff about a half mile before jumping and landing on the tippet and broke off. Jon had one more bite in the morning before we went in to wait for the wind to die.
Bob Crispin first Tarpon
We headed out later in the evening after the wind had dropped down to calm and the seas were dead calm. At the slack high tide the POONS were rolling all over the place, Bob cast at a rolling fish and hooked up a 70 pounder, he fought that fish exactly as coached, and then 20 minutes later I released Bob Crispin's first Tarpon ever. After a couple of hours we found one more hungry male and fed him a black fly, this fish turned out to be a 75 pounder and was released 24 minutes after Bob Crispin set the hook. Today turned out to be a good day of Tarpon fly fishing, We jumped 4 Tarpon and released two of them. Stand by for more Tarpon Reports!
Regards:
Jake
Captain Jake Jordan
Jake Jordan's Fishing Adventures
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