October fishing is Great!
Tarpon and Bonefish and maybe a Permit for those of you who have the skill and ,most importantly, the patience.
Tarpon and Bonefish and maybe a Permit for those of you who have the skill and ,most importantly, the patience.
Big Tarpon start to show up in the lower Florida Keys starting in February .
I have had several good days of tarpon fishing this month and look forward to a great 2019 season for both tarpon and permit. Yesterday was awesome with lots of big tarpon rolling and laid up in slick calm conditions . We missed a bunch but had many shots and then fed a smaller fish and a HUGE female ate the fly!! It was a rush for sure. After that we went permit fishing and saw a bunch. The vis was getting tough late in the afternoon and we saw most of the permit too late to get a good set up. Can’t wait until tomorrow to do it all over again. Getting ready to pre-fish for the March Merkin Permit Tournament.
Here is Dave Molone with a nice Keys Bonefish caught on the Fly with Capt. Mike O’Brien.
September and October are my favorite months to fish. Bonefishing is good and the permit are a little more easy to feed. Of course, the tarpon fishing is super fun and I have been getting into big tarpon crushing mullet in the Backcountry. We can fish in the am and dive for lobster when it gets hot.
I was at the Bonefish Tarpon Trust symposium last weekend in Weston , Florida with my good friend and Client Jay Decker from Patagonia. We set up a small booth and talked about the cool new line.
I saw lots of friends from the fly angling world and made some new ones too. I sat in on the Permit and Tarpon panel discussions and got some new perspectives on these fish.
A lot of time, money, and love is going into protecting tarpon, permit, and bonefish for now and the future.