May 23, 2014 Report

Dean from Texas fished with me back in December and we had played hide and seek from a relentless wind but ended catching a bunch of trout and other species. Today was different. With the calm winds of May finally arriving, tarpon was on my mind and Dean wanted another shot at a brief encounter with tarpon last time. We started fishing a school of rolling tarpon and were hooked up by 7:00AM to a nice 80+lb tarpon that gave us one big jump then stayed deep the rest of the time. Dean fought the fish for 20 exciting minutes as the fish tried almost every trick in the book to break us off on jetties, points and rocks. Having survived his efforts we were confident he was in the bag, just a matter of time. Twenty minutes into the fight with the fish right under the boat he spits the hook! Bad tarpon! We got a second hit but no hook up. With boat traffic increasing we left the area and fished the beaches where there were lots of tarpon rolling but no hook ups. We finished off the day catching Dean's first shark on the flats and having some shots at big barracudas.

Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com