My Time Sport Fishing

Fishing on the "First Light" at Boca Grande! Guys trip was great fun. Fishing the Pass for tarpon during a tournament was CRAZY! The tournament rules were jigs only, and circle hooks, 2 rods per boat and when the fish broke water near the boat, 100 boats out of 300 would crash the zone! Video below.

BAIT:Chummed up bait and used the cast net for greenies, also bought shrimp which was very effective. Picked up some crabs in the drift in the cut.

Fishing on the flats was HOT! Trout frenzy, spot-tails, jacks, snook, and pin-fish bait steelers. Witnessed several tarpon caught during the tournament with fish rolling right at our boat, one fish tried to jump into another boat and slammed the side. Witnessed a Goliath Grouper caught and a couple of others hooked with the anglers just about jerked off into the water. We think one rod went down. ESPN or other video crews filmed the event, along with filming the tarpon tournament. What a ZOO. Went off-shore to fish wrecks in the afternoon Saturday. We had a fun time with spanish, grouper, snapper, pinfish, and squirel fish. I had probably hooked a small snapper when.... while I was cranking it up it was swallowed by a larger fish which promptly snapped the 50 lb line as I tried to keep it from going back to it's hole. So.... I put down a live pin fish and upped the tackle to 80# leader and braid and POW!!! another snapped off line as I tried to keep the monster from going back in the wreck. Guess what? I now went to 130# leader and 80# braid and a larger pin fish.... 2 minutes.... wait.... wait... now I hook up with the monster again only to thumb the drag and rip-up the 130# leader and POW... another one broken with the leader fraid completely... all 8 feet of it. Do you think this stopped us... NO!.... OK, the young one says, lets hook up two rods to the #130 leader and set her down with another pinfish.... The setup worked great.. drags were locked down and this fish wasn't going back in the hole. We waited and waited, but I guess the fish was full of pinfish and didn't like the looks of 2 lines. NO BITE! Maybe next time.