Crazyhook

fish looks about 60 pounds to me, what a beauty, some great shots! Any sharks down there? have to watch out for releasing them, like a tic tac to a bull or hammer!

Put up the big bull.... man the boys are slow with pics!

perfect dinner man! awesome report

Dude I have to work on Friday... trying to figure out what my new ride is going to be this year.. we will get out soon bud! Scuro... fights were nuts. Long runs, jumps and when you think they are done they breath air and it starts all over again. 4 fights went over half an hour... one fish jumped 10 times and another one almost had 300 yards out...

great news Dave! I wish him a speedy recovery

awesome fish man!!! did you get a length on him? awesome fight eh! just came back from tarpon fishing down south, nothing like it

I will be in TO at the end of the month for a wedding, could swing by early for a fish before

Wayne, you in Ottawa, elt me know I got some flies for you...

Thanks Dude... Well we hooked 15 tarpon as a group and 13 got off or broke off. Fishing on the bridge for them is not easy at all. First if you get a big one, you cannot pull up the anchor and chase them. Also the piling that hold up the bridge are filled with barnacles and will cut any line at all that rubs against them. Another problem is the hard mouth of the tarpon... they jump like crazy and have huge runs. They can also breath air so when you think all is ok they get a second wind. The first one I had on the boat hit while in 3 minutes, I dropped my pinfish down and it got smoked... line poured off the reel and then the fish leaped 3 times. A great fight and I was happy to get it boatside for a pic ( all of which are on my buddy's camera). We went through loads of 80 and 100 pound fluro...I cannot disclose the secret bait but we found it out early on and it was our key to success. The biggest tarpon we fought would of been over 170 maybe in the 180 pound range. It was so big only half of it jumped out of the water. During the end of the out going tide we had one fish that jumped, got in the current and was off 300 yards... What a fish. Booking next year for sure again.... As for stories, there are so many. Some have to stay down there ... my favorite one of the week ( besides the bull shark eating my swimming joe while in the kayak in 40 feet of water) I see a huge volkswagon sized spotted eagle ray ( the kind that killed a lady in the keys a few weeks back). Behind the ray was a huge cobia. Cobia are great fighters and amazing eating. I had a bucktail on and tried to get the cobia to bite... well I snag the eagle ray in the wing and the fight is on. There was 3 kayakers watcing the fight from a distance . The ray bolts towards them getting closer and closer. About a kayak length away it jumps 8 feet of of the water right beside the lady's kayak... I have never seen 3 people paddle so fast.

you can walk then down for a pic... but our problem was they were all way too big and they had thier way with us...

it was rough out in the big water,,, had a bull shark eat half my 10" swimming Joe... that was the end of the paddling for me out there... poon at the pier

Have a blast!!! be safe, many screaming reels to you!

well I got about as much sleep last night as I did in the last week. It was hot and so was the fishing. Shark prep The Keys were insane! I went 2 for 9 on the tarpon, fish went 80 and 120. I blew up two reels ( one spinner shark, one poon)... Had a bull shark follow and eat my bait while out in rough seas in a kayak ( washing underwear currently)... bull sharks, cudas, snapper, sting rays , one big ass spotted eagle ray, spinner sharks, nurse sharks, goliath grouper were all caught, fish lost are too numerous to mention. Hooked a nice snook on a fly I tied but lost it in the mangroves. 14 hours sleep all week and two nights I slept on the bridge using my tackle box for a pillow Here are some of the pics, we had 4 digi cameras and here are the ones that I took. 3 more rounds of shots to come... tarpon were really hard to photograph, when they were not in the air they were running. The 120 pounder took an hour to land while chasing it over a mile with the boat. First fish of the trip, a nice mangrove snapper , part of our 4 am fish fry ( the neighboors loved us!) key deer were all over the place and would run over the bridge while we were fishing at night a little bait for the toothy ones little spinner shark Paul fighting a big tarpon Steve hooked up to a Huge tarpon half an hour later, tarpon frays 100 pound fluro leader. Tarpon wins... battling my 80 pounder which was the first one I have ever caught, great half hour fight same fish jumping kayaking the canals in search for snook and baby poons out looking for cuda our bait cooler local watering hole covered in 1 dollar bills Paul's 250 pound 8 foot bull Shark caught from the bridge

here is my half sleeve in progress, next weeks trip should pic the fish I am going to add to the piece

CHainsaw Charles McCarthy!!! I am biased though... Also GSP, MAc Danzig, Lutter, Quarry, and Joe Dirty!

Dude thats awesome bro!

3 / 4 of one

Are you registering Chris' Lawn care! How you been Chris?

I am in

TJ pick up some beach shoes for wading.. i got mine at Wallyworld for 5 bucks... the sand is soft like flour... chug bugs.... trust me and white bucktails.... rip then back fast and you will get action!

very very little sharks down that way... believe me I went searching for them TJ another thing you could do is head out on a Hobie cat ( sailboat) resort give them for free... you can troll and pick up some nice fish on the drop off. Cudas, mahi and some tuna...

favorites for me are Rob Dey baits Riverrat spinnerbaits out of Ottawa Grimp Reapers

TJ! you are going to a great place man!!!! great time too! You do not need a license to fish down there. Bring a few rolls of cheap 20 or 30 pound mono to give to the locals and you will make a few friends for sure. As for baits, I had a travel rod with 10 pound mono.The cudas loved the small 3 or 4" gulp minnows. Cast and reel in as fast as you can. Topwaters... zara spooks and chug bugs! the Chug bug caught me over 20 cudas and a few nice snapper. At night walk around the resort cast into the dark let it sit for 30 seconds then pop it. There should be some tarpon around in the lagoons as well. If you like fishing with bait, head to any of the resturants and offer a few bucks to people in the kicthen and you will get a nice bag of shrimp. Other good baits to bring Xraps, White bucktails... if you need more info PM me!

Danbo.. I went to a Seminar last night called The Laws of Attraction. Check out the book by Micheal Losier... excellent stuff if you are into it

I got out in Sheldons boat and tis one sweet ride. I will be looking for a boat this season and will be giving Tracker a shot