Right now, the best time of day continues to be at first light up until about 10:a.m. Too, conditions have been slick calm providing a good setup to fish top water. Moreover, recent rain totals have helped cool and oxygenate the water helping bring some of our juvenile tarpon out of the canals and rivers. As a result, I’ve been taking advantage and throwing gurglers and poppers. Mostly, I’ve been looking for tarpon around outside shoreline points where it’s also not unusual to run into a snook or redfish. For sure, there’s nothing better than watching tarpon roll in slicked out conditions before the sun does its thing. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve gravitated towards more of a challenge and finding back country tarpon is exactly that. It’s not unusual to go a whole morning and not see a fish. The tarpon I am seeing are ranging anywhere between 5 to 20 pounds. For the most part, an eight-weight with a floating line rigged with a nine or ten foot leader tapered down to 20 lb. tippet is fine. Most times, all I’m looking for is an eat and a couple jumps and I’m fine. The less fish handling the better.
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