Quick note: Happy non-traveling fish are "there" because the habitat fits them and there's food- not much different than you and I. Yet within a given species, their habitat OF THE TIME MAKES GENERALIZATIONS RISKY. Sure, some Keys guides say " no current, no bones." That would be fine, but precede it with "right here." In the Marls of Abaco, there's little current and poling and access is determined on the wind's effect on water levels. That's a nursery area and the bones love to eat and grow in those still waters and food-rich bottom. Ditto, the salinas of Bonaire.
Others doing pass, cut, or basin fishing for tarpon can watch them roll enticingly without a strike and then a "bite" begins. Scoot down to the lagunas from Merida to Campeche and those unpressured tarpon grab almost every fly or lure tossed at them. Same species, but different habitats and circumstances-adopt a relativistic attitude: you'll be more on the mark!
Jan
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