Tarpon eating dead bait in intercoastal canals
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Tarpon eating dead bait in intercoastal canals
Tarpon are being caught on dead bait fished on the bottom behind homes in the North Dade area. A customer has been busted off so many times I gave him some 120 lb mono leader and he has caught and released a few in the 80 lb range. They have been eating Bonito strips fished on circle hooks freelined.
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Re: Tarpon eating dead bait in intercoastal canals
RippysFishingSupply wrote:Tarpon are being caught on dead bait fished on the bottom
which one is it?RippysFishingSupply wrote:They have been eating Bonito strips fished on circle hooks freelined.
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Re: Tarpon eating dead bait in intercoastal canals
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Re: Tarpon eating dead bait in intercoastal canals
Actually any carcass will do, if it dont get picked up by a bull first... I have also caught slob snook like this btw...
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Re: Tarpon eating dead bait in intercoastal canals
Never tried tarpon fishing with cut bait, but snook I'm 1 for 1 with cut bait. During the hurricane none the less... Thinking maybe I should give it a shot since a lot of people swear they get more poons on cut bait. I recall Backwoods saying he prefers cut mullet over live.
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Re: Tarpon eating dead bait in intercoastal canals
I thought a big mullet head was pretty standard for poons.
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Re: Tarpon eating dead bait in intercoastal canals
Well yep, here is the thing... I have NEVER caught a little guy doing this, only the slobs... I think they are just wiser and thus realize little work with big payoff..
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Re: Tarpon eating dead bait in intercoastal canals
They been tearing it up out back Sword. Might try this though. Don't fancy loosing a big hard bait to all the structure, and I've never had any luck with anything else. Lost a #12 Rapala Ghost Rap out there not long ago. Whatever took it never even slowed down.
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Re: Tarpon eating dead bait in intercoastal canals
Crash, the lure hurts... but man oh man do i want to tangle with a big one that I cant stop! HAHAHA, damn, we gotta put something on the books soon for some canal fishing where you are seeing this... I have a few old plugs I dont care much for! Ill toss em on the Cedros cj55 I have laying around with 50 lbs braid! I want to see the train that spools that reel!
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Re: Tarpon eating dead bait in intercoastal canals
can you catch tarpon on cut ballyhoo in the intercoastal? ive hooked onto them with grunt, blue runner, and lady fish and wanted to try frozen ballyhoo since i can just pick some up from the store. went out last week and tried half a ballyhoo but ended up catching my pb jack lol. is it worth trying with the ballyhood or should i just spend time looking for bait. not sure how to consistently catch ladyfish and ive only hooked up using grunts maybe once or twice.
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Re: Tarpon eating dead bait in intercoastal canals
I thought it was common knowledge that Tarpon fed on almost any dead fish they came across?