April 18, 2017 Report (Tarpon Video!)

Today was Day 2 with Alec and his brother Kevin and Alec was up to bat tarpon fishing. Pretty early on we got a bite but the fish never got hooked so we pressed on. a little while later the rod doubles over and Alec is onto a nice big Tarpon that gave us some beautiful jumps. Ten minutes into the fight we had the leader release and after a total of 25 minutes the fish estimated at about 150lbs was on its way and Alec had his first tarpon of the season. The fishing certainly died down after that release so we switched gears and ran over to the trout grass flats since Kevin wanted to catch a sea trout on fly. After a couple flats and some slower than usual trout fishing we finally got into some and Kevin landed two on fly and Alec landed a nice 18" trout. Itching to go back to tarpon fishing I told the guys we would wrap it up tarpon fishing and that's exactly what we did. With an hour left in the trip the rod doubled over and Kevin was on the a tarpon again, this one was about a hundred forty pounds and we got the leader release in 20 minutes but still needed an additional 25 to get it next to the boat and get the hero picture we really wanted. It's been a good two days with these guys and I look forward to fishing with them again soon!

Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com 786-853-1409 Follow me on Instagram @MiamiBoneFishing