Despite some auspicious signs and conditions in June, the tarpon season in Biscayne Bay had not materialized the way I'd hoped. That is, until now. I had a glass-calm morning this week that begged me to go scouting for tarpon- and, I did. In the half-light of early dawn, I found some medium and large tarpon rolling. I quickly jumped off a 40-pound fish. Within 10 minutes, I had another strike and up came a fish of 60 pounds greyhounding across the surface. I fought this fish quite hard and had him alongside my skiff for release within 10 minutes.
All of a sudden and like the proverbial light switch, the winds started breezing out of the southeast. Within 5 minutes the wind came up to a constant 15 m.p.h....and the tarpon stopped rolling, and, yup, stopped feeding, too. I've never been comfortable with winds and flats and/or bay fishing for tarpon during the day. I love the wind at night for them, especially under bridge shadows featuring a nocturnal push of topside crabs and shrimp. But, in the daylight hours, give me bathtub conditions.
I ran to another grassflats edge and managed to release a large ladyfish and small barracuda, but it was time to pack it in.
Jan
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