Tarpon Season is Here

It’s mid April, and spring has been flying by. The tarpon fishing has been pretty good since late March. Periods of high winds, twenty to twenty five knots, have been slowing things down here and there, but the fish and been in and they have been biting.

Typical with early season tarpon fishing, it has been mostly a backcountry game as of late. Fish have been showing up in some of the ocean side poling basins, but haven’t been consistently swimming the ocean just yet.

Mornings have been starting at sunrise, targeting rolling tarpon in backcountry channels and basins. The rest of the day we’ve been poling the endless basin edges for laid up and nesting fish.

I’m excited for the fish to start swimming the ocean, but have been enjoying the quiet pace of fishing them out back.

Dan with a tarpon landed in the Marquesas Keys.

Clay pulls on a giant tarpon, hooked fly fishing in the Lower Keys Backcountry