Wednesday, 5/25/11 … tarpon fishing at Boca Grande

A lot of tarpon action today!

Hank and I left the dock at Castaways on Sanibel Island this morning and made a stop on Captiva Island to get some additional tarpon tackle.

We then headed to Boca Grande Pass. We got there about 8:45.

Within 5 minutes of arriving, we hooked up with a tarpon and landed the fish within 5-7 minutes. We got a DNA sample of the tarpon and passed it on to the marine researcher in the pass.

On our second drift, we again hooked up right away, but as soon as the fish came it left by quickly breaking off the line at the hook.

As we got back to it, we were right in the thick of the fish and were quickly doubled up with two tarpon on the line at the same time.

We handed off one rod off to another boat to handle that fish and we focused on chasing the larger of the two tarpons, which we landed and weighed about 130 lbs.

The fish we handed off to the other boat weighed about 115 lbs.

The bite then slowed down and we headed down the beach back toward Captiva and Sanibel.

It was a great day of tarpon fishing!

Fair winds and following seas,

Captain Joey Burnsed ~ call 239-472-8658 or email captjoefred@gmail to book a charter.