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Getting skunked on a charter trip
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:04 pm
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:04 pm
Decided to head out in bad seas in Key West Sunday to chase the elusive Tarpon, a bucket list of a fish.
High winds kept the captain at the dock Friday & Saturday. Finally catch a break on Sunday Morning and find 'em rolling. Hundreds of Tarpon rolling all around us.
Zero, zilch, not a bite. Is there anything more pissing off than breaking off the cash for a charter after getting skunked.
Capt put my brother on a few sharks, but otherwise an absolute bust of a trip.
High winds kept the captain at the dock Friday & Saturday. Finally catch a break on Sunday Morning and find 'em rolling. Hundreds of Tarpon rolling all around us.
Zero, zilch, not a bite. Is there anything more pissing off than breaking off the cash for a charter after getting skunked.
Capt put my brother on a few sharks, but otherwise an absolute bust of a trip.
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Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:06 pm to Prosecuted Collins
shite happens
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:08 pm to Prosecuted Collins
It's called fishing, not catching...
But yeah, that sucks.
But yeah, that sucks.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:10 pm to Prosecuted Collins
i'd be pissed too. charter guides should not take once cent of profit on those days.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:11 pm to Chad504boy
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Chad504boy
Treble hook says hi.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:12 pm to Motorboat
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Treble hook says hi.
i don't get it
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:13 pm to Chad504boy
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i don't get it
Shocker
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:13 pm to Prosecuted Collins
If you were fly fishing, then it's ok to get skunked. If you were chunking bait, shame on you.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:14 pm to Prosecuted Collins
I would be supremely pissed.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:15 pm to Trout Bandit
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Shocker
so now we pass all blame on the trebel hook for getting skunked on chartered trips. Let me ask you this, who supplied said trebel hooks for said trips.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:16 pm to Prosecuted Collins
If he brought you to a school of hundreds of tarpon, and you didn't catch one, I wouldn't advertise that too much.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:16 pm to Chad504boy
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who supplied said trebel hooks for said trips.
obama
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:17 pm to Prosecuted Collins
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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 on 5/20/14 at 4:18 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
The whole marina skunked.
They are fickle beasts and a North wind will shut them down.
Showed up real early this year, Boca Grande is going to be crazy soon.
They are fickle beasts and a North wind will shut them down.
Showed up real early this year, Boca Grande is going to be crazy soon.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:19 pm to The Last Coco
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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 on 5/20/14 at 4:19 pm to The Last Coco
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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 on 5/20/14 at 4:20 pm to Chad504boy
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:20 pm to The Last Coco
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.
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.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:21 pm to Chad504boy
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which is reason to even be more pissed at chartered guide who thinks he did his part.
If he brought you to the fish, and the almighty OB says those fish aren't feeding and won't bite, what the mother frick do you want the guide to do?
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:22 pm to Prosecuted Collins
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High winds kept the captain at the dock Friday & Saturday.
Who was the captain?
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