tarpon

So this week my dad and I went to try the flats around Satellite. We found a lot of good fish that are willing to eat if you stay quiet. We used small mullet and most of the fish had no problem attempting to eat them. When a fish seems to be giving half effort on your bait, try cutting the tail off. It worked for me with a little red.

The flats have very big trout, a decent amount of slot snook, and lots of nice reds. We saw a surprising amount of overslot snook too. They are tricky but it is possible to get them to eat. One overslot snook picked up my bait but dropped as I was setting the hook so no pictures. Long casts were working a lot better than being right up on the fish, because once they get spooked they won’t eat.

As usual, we also tried the canals. Some nice tarpon were stacked up under a couple docks and were eating mullet. The mangroves didn’t have much action on mullet, but the one fish that we hooked up to was very big and ripped out line until it broke off. Shrimp would probably work better right now.

Hoping to get on them again next week. Looking forward to higher water in the canals once we get some regular rains.

Attached is a photo of me with a nice tarpon.