It’s hot. There’s the smell of stale sweat mingled with the windborne scent of mangroves as the flats to the northward dry out and a zillion myriad invertebrates bake in the sun, and I bake right along with them. We’re west of Key West and south of most everything dry within sight, though I can [...]
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The Keys Chronicles (Pt. 6): Tarpon
“Massively miraculous, a very powerful force, extraordinary; so extraordinary as to create immediate unreality in the process upon contact with the fish.” ~ Richard Brautigan, 1973. The Keys Chronicles June, 2009. This season we’re staying at Nate “Dubya’s” Mullet Camp, like always. But this year the flavor is distinctly different, in a bare-bones, fish-camp kind [...]
Tarpon Season’s Comin’…
And We Don’t Have A Freakin’ Skiff! Yup, tarpon season is just around the corner and our brains are heating up along with the weather. Just got this little piece of mental clusterflop from good old Nate “Dubya” down in Tavernier Key. I can’t figure whether to call the Bureau of Mental Health, just feel [...]
Out of the Silence…
Well done, boys, well done indeed.
Jumpin’ Tarpon with the Boys
From last year’s tarpon trip. That’s BarJack on the fish and Nate W. on the leader. Your’s truly is behind the lens. We hooked several that day but this is the only one we brought to the boat… and Mr BarJack spanked that poon in under 15… just like he does every time.
The Keys Chronicles (Pt. 5)
June 13, 2008 Of course, the first time you’re out there you have no trouble believing. Watching that first string of fish headed your way, their dark shapes seeming to progress like stop-motion animation down the flat, you think, one of these has got to eat, right? Even if it’s a small bunch, say a dozen [...]
The Keys Chronicles (Pt. 4)
June 13, 2008 This is a lesson I learned well on that first real tarpon trip: make the first shot count. I’d say that ninety percent of the time the first shot was the only real shot. And that’s where most of the bites came. You can definitely pick up and recast, but it’s not [...]
