Jeeebus
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- Aug 29, 2006
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He's fishing for tarpon in a small opening like that, from land? I'm guessing he loses a lot of them, or they're very small. Tarpon are all power, and they don't tire as fast as other fish because they have a primitive lung - handy for a species that loves repetitive jumping. I'd love to see that guy try to land even a medium size tarpon from that hole in the brush. I bet it's hard even without aggressive gators to contend with.
One of my fondest high school memories is tarpon fishing one of the local lakes (which feed into the various canals that feed into the intercoastal) with my buddy. We would head out just before dusk and for months get our bass/light tackle rods absolutely wrecked. Finally caught one from shore that I am guesstimating (from memory) was probably 60 - 90lbs. I think my wife still has a scan of the polaroid picture of me holding the beast. There are a lot of tarpon in a canal near the house, but I haven't been lake fishing for them in about 25 years now.