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 Flyfishing Tips For Tarpon: Make The Most Of Your Opportunities
Posted by mark-m on Sunday, May 28 @ 08:12:07 PDT
I am headed down to Florida next weekend for business and will be taking an extra day to try my hand at scoring a few tarpon. The following is a little reminder of some past experiences chasing the silver kings. Tips for flyfishing for tarpon... (some of these work well for stripers too).
1- With your fly still in the water, turn your attention away from the fly and turn to look at whatever it is making that noise that sounds suspiciously like an alligator tromping through the woods towards you. Without fail, while your attention is turned, 8 or 9 tarpon will come up and slash at your fly.
2- With your fly still in the water, stick your rod between your legs and hold it with your knees long enough to take your hat off and get your hair out of your face and let your head breathe for a minute. While your hands are occupied with something else, a tarpon will come up and bite your fly.
3- Sit your rod down on the sawgrass beside the canals and leave your fly dangling in the water. It doesn''t have to be in the water deep. Just below the surface usually works too. Do whatever it is that you have to do. When you come back and go to pick up your rod, as soon as your fly moves from you picking it up, the water will explode right there and you will miss another tarpon. Be thankful if whatever you had to do included going to the bathroom, otherwise you might have done it right then.
4- In a boat, lay your rod down and leave your fly in the water and go to open a can of beverage. No sooner than the release of pressure fizzes from the can being opened than a tarpon will go for your fly. Makes you wonder if there is some kind of relationship between pressures and fishing, doesn''t it?
5- Fish with a partner. I have found this to be a highly effective way of getting a tarpon to bite, especially if your partner is fishing close by. If you have gone a long time without a bite, simply turn your head and go to say something to your partner. As soon as your head is turned, you will get a hit on your fly.
6- Get a wind knot in your leader and dismiss it. This is probably the most effective way ever to get a tarpon not only to take your fly, but it will also be the only time that it will actually hook itself. This usually induces the most solid hookups. However, on the first jump he makes, the leader will invariably break at the point where the knot you just dismissed was.
7- Make a bad cast. Tailing loops are great tarpon attractors. While your fly is lying there in the water amidst a great mass of piled up flyline, the fly will sink a bit and a tarpon will go for it.
8- Get the flyline wrapped around the butt end of the rod or the reel during a cast. While your attention is turned away from fishing for the moment and you are trying to get it off of there, a tarpon will hit your fly.
9- FSD''s. Also known as Flyline Snagging Devices, also known as cleats, trolling motors, rod holders, or a number of other things found on a boat. Make your cast and while you are trying to get the flyline at your feet unsnagged from any of the aforementioned objects, invariably, a tarpon will go for your fly.
10- Finally, the most important and most effective way to get a tarpon to go for your fly... forget to sharpen your hooks. This is an extremely good way to get some tarpon action every time. They will be fighting over which one of them gets to take your fly first. Riots will break out, wars will start, chaos will reign supreme. It can get ugly.
mark-m
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Re: Flyfishing Tips For Tarpon: Make The Most Of Your Opportunities
by hedrush999 on Sunday, May 28 @ 11:30:14 PDT http://www.fliesandfinssouth.com | | Great read mark, it is all so true. My favorite thing to do is to make a lot of noise in the boat when there are no fish around. It usually results in spooking 5 hundred pounders right out from under your feet! |
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