First Tarpon on Fly

CastawayCustoms · 11-24-2009, 05:55 PM

I have been fishing for a while and had a fly rod for a while, but never really threw it much, at least not on the water. Fished with Benny Blanco down in Flamingo last week while on the road working and pulled out the long rod. End up sticking a nice upper slot red, only my 2nd red ever on fly. Then it hit, that little fly fishing bug started crawling up my pants. After getting back home I decided to call up Derek and see if he wanted to try and catch a little poon on fly. After missing a few strikes and breaking off a nice one, I finally managed to land a little one. The beauty of fishing is there are so many different ways to skin a cat, or catch a fish. I think I will try to keep the long rod in my repertoire.

jaysea63 · 11-24-2009, 10:52 PM

Tyler,

Nice work with the flyrod! Congrats on yer first poon on fly. Great action pics too. You'd never know if that was Merritt Island or Hell's Bay.

How was Flamingo? I think it's time for another tribenwater road trip!

JC

hmaadd29 · 11-25-2009, 07:47 AM

That last pic don't looks like no flyrod.lol

Nice job awesome!!

CastawayCustoms · 11-28-2009, 05:56 PM

I know, all you can see is the spinning rod sitting in the pic haha. If you look closely you will actually see the tip of my rod sitting by his mouth. It snapped off sometime during the close range battle by the boat.

11-24-2009, 05:55 PM	#1 (permalink)
CastawayCustoms Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Merritt Island Posts: 23	First Tarpon on Fly I have been fishing for a while and had a fly rod for a while, but never really threw it much, at least not on the water. Fished with Benny Blanco down in Flamingo last week while on the road working and pulled out the long rod. End up sticking a nice upper slot red, only my 2nd red ever on fly. Then it hit, that little fly fishing bug started crawling up my pants. After getting back home I decided to call up Derek and see if he wanted to try and catch a little poon on fly. After missing a few strikes and breaking off a nice one, I finally managed to land a little one. The beauty of fishing is there are so many different ways to skin a cat, or catch a fish. I think I will try to keep the long rod in my repertoire.

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11-24-2009, 10:52 PM	#2 (permalink)
jaysea63 Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: cocoa beach Posts: 28	Tyler, Nice work with the flyrod! Congrats on yer first poon on fly. Great action pics too. You'd never know if that was Merritt Island or Hell's Bay. How was Flamingo? I think it's time for another tribenwater road trip! JC

11-25-2009, 07:47 AM	#3 (permalink)
hmaadd29 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: GA Posts: 346	That last pic don't looks like no flyrod.lol Nice job awesome!!

11-28-2009, 05:56 PM	#4 (permalink)
CastawayCustoms Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Merritt Island Posts: 23	I know, all you can see is the spinning rod sitting in the pic haha. If you look closely you will actually see the tip of my rod sitting by his mouth. It snapped off sometime during the close range battle by the boat.