Started By
Message

re: Getting skunked on a charter trip

Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:17 pm to
Posted by The Last Coco
On the water
Member since Mar 2009
6842 posts
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:17 pm to
quote:

to chase the elusive Tarpon


Yeah tarpon are finicky as all get out. Doesn't surprise me one bit. That's an easy fish (especially on a fly) to see all day and not get bit.

A discount would have been a nice gesture on his part, but if he put you in/around tarpon, sometimes that's all you can do. Sometimes the fish don't want to eat, other times it takes a master fly fisherman with lots of tarpon experience to get bit. Sucks but that's the nature of those fish.

Just FWIW: Rolling tarpon are generally NOT feeding tarpon.
Posted by Chad504boy
4 posts
Member since Feb 2005
167145 posts
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:19 pm to
quote:

Just FWIW: Rolling tarpon are generally NOT feeding tarpon.


which is reason to even be more pissed at chartered guide who thinks he did his part.
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
38881 posts
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:19 pm to
quote:

if he put you in/around tarpon, sometimes that's all you can do. Sometimes the fish don't want to eat, other times it takes a master fly fisherman with lots of tarpon experience to get bit. Sucks but that's the nature of those fish.


Might should have tried a bare treble hook y'all keep talking about...

Snag life!
Posted by Prosecuted Collins
The Farm
Member since Sep 2003
6648 posts
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:20 pm to
This guy knows what's up.

It ain't like put us on a school of trout under birds.

There were probably over 2000 tarpon in about 5 acre area where we were drifting. It's worth the price of admission to see them.

It's just tough to cut the check at the end of the day. I need a scale bad.

Even the snapper had shut down.
first pageprev pagePage 1 of 1Next pagelast page
refresh

Back to top
logoFollow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest updates on LSU Football and Recruiting.

FacebookTwitterInstagram