August 5, 2005 The next fish is altogether different. I’ve switched to a little bunny number that almost suspends and I’m systematically tossing it out into the shadows and twitching it slowly back. Somewhere out there the line stops cold and a split second later a fish is in the air. At night, the sound [...]
Posts Tagged ‘tarpon’
Night Fishing: A Report (Pt. I)
Night Tarpon: A Report “Chance is always powerful. Let your line be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.” ~Ovid August 5, 2005 Light East wind, 5-8 knots; high falling tide. Young moon and 86 degrees. We hit the harbor to fish under the lights. Sometimes tarpon [...]
Bad Things At Boca Grand Pass
Apropos of an upcoming trip to The Keys for tarpon, I’ve been (weirdly) thinking a lot about tarpon recently. I was alerted to this by Nate Dubya, a sometimes contributor of fishy goodness to this blog. I know it’s longish, but it’s not just some random fish porn youtubery, this is serious stuff here. Hope [...]
Untouchable Tarpon
Fishing Jones: Untouchable On the incoming tide the bay fills up with bright blue water that flows in past the cruise ships in the Cut. But it was at night here where I saw my first tarpon, fooled by a jigged shrimp drifting in the dark water. I followed the crashes until my eyes caught [...]
Tarpon and… Orvis?
Ok, so here’s another gratuitous, lazy-@$$ video post. It’s time. Tight video. Amazing fish. And no, I do not want to go out and buy an Orvis reel now… not even a little bit. Wonder what kind of rods they were “blowing up”? Just askin’. Mirage Reel from SHALLOW WATER EXPEDITIONS on Vimeo. (Promo for [...]
Riding High
Riding High: A Season on the Fly from Waterline Media on Vimeo. Waterline Media presents a short film for the Drake 5 minutes of Fly Fishing in New Orleans in August, 2011. Filmed over the course of an entire tarpon season from the lower Keys to the Panhandle, Riding High shows the entire migration [...]
Why I hate Fly Nation:
A short trailer for the very first episode in Fly Nation TV Season 2, premiering on WFN in late 2011. Don’t miss the chance to visit the incredible flats fishery in Cayo Cruz, Cuba with Slipstream Angling Worldwide, offering some of the best flats fly fishing in the entire World! Visit www.slipstreamangling.com for more information [...]
