![]() Fishing with a wonderful friend of mine, the late Jim Lambert, on his boat the Reel Tight, we successfully baited-and-switched and caught a 200-pound blue marlin on a beer can wired to a hook. When they get lit up and hot they will crash almost anything. Probably one of the best fish to bait-and-switch or entice a bite is a blue marlin. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, known for its great bill fishing. And then, of course, many species such as little tunny and jack crevalle will crash almost any bait that’s moving, especially if you’ve got them chummed up behind your boat. There are other saltwater fish besides tarpon that can be enticed to strike a bug that’s an imperfect replica of their forage by applying the correct amount of movement representing the life action of that specific bait. In this instance you’re probing the fish to grab your fly. But if you skitter it over the surface the trout doesn’t have a chance to scrutinize it he’ll smash it the same with an emerger. Often though if your grasshopper gets too closely examined the trout won’t eat it. Most freshwater fishing that relates to hatches is based on fooling the fish in this manner. Here you’re hoping the fish mistakes it for food and is willing to rise up and eat your fly. In this scenario, you’re not feeding the fish. Quite often, when you’re trout fishing a during a hatch and you don’t have the perfect imitation of that particular insect-but you do have a dry fly or emerger with the correct profile and you’re good enough to give it a perfect drift-you can catch fish. It is exactly the same with feeding flies to tarpon.Īll fishing is based on presentation. But if you toss the string out in front of the kitten in the right spot-bump it, shake it and slide it-the cat will reach out and grab the string. If you don’t get the string close enough. If you hit the cat on the head with the string, it’ll turn and run away. The best analogy I can give you relating to force-feeding a tarpon is to consider how a kitten reacts when you dangle a string in front of it. You can induce a fish to bite your fly even when it is indifferent.Ī ’poon’s willingness to be coaxed into doing something it’s not inclined to do makes it one of the greatest game fish ever to have an artificial fly thrown at it. If you learn to understand tarpon and their body language, you can “own” this fish. ![]() ![]() Your objective is simply to get the tarpon to bite your fly, of course, but an intriguing characteristic of tarpon is that you can almost force feed them-not almost, quite often you can. My experience has convinced me that if you can read the fish, cast and present your fly correctly while staying focused on the beast, you can get it to open its mouth. To order – click here.įeeding the animal means making the tarpon eat your bug. Part One ~ Feeding the AnimalĪ Passion for Tarpon book won several literary awards. The devil, however, is in the details of doing – so let’s examine how Andy gets there. Making the latter happen is a combination of luck, choosing a fly of interest, great casting, having the fly in the right water column, properly setting the hook, fighting the fish properly, landing it as quickly as possible and making a safe in-water release. ![]() She may turn away from it, sit tight and stare at it, follow it right up to the boat or absolutely massacre it and put on the show of a lifetime. Tarpon can be a fickle thing when presented with a fly. If you have a passion for tarpon, we can promise you that you’ll take away from this single chapter enough to make you a better tarpon angler and, especially so, if you’re an angler with big ‘poons on the mind. The knowledge that he served up to readers in his award-winning A Passion for Tarpon. In this story on advanced fly fishing for tarpon, we’ll draw on his hard-earned knowledge. In this hemisphere, it’s possible that Andy Mill knows as much about tarpon catching as anyone dead or alive – spin or fly. It’s Tarpon Time in the Florida Keys – Where it All Happened First ![]()
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