Anegada Pic of the Day - Tarpon (Again)

[Walker]

We have a young friend from Saba (an island about 90 miles southeast of here). John is only 18, but he is one of my best friends, and I think of him as a man, not a boy. John got here on Monday, and we have done some fishing a couple of days.

John caught a nice snapper here at our cottage on Wednesday night.


So - today, I picked John up a little after noon and we headed back to our cottage. Along the way, we stopped by the spot where I have been catching the tarpon. The bait ball was in, the tarpon were feeding, and it was time to fish.

We bolted to the cottage to get rods and get back into the sea.

John was first up - he cast into the bait ball and landed a gar.


I put the camera away and got out my fly rod. Almost immediately I hooked up with a really nice tarpon.






I am using 20 pound tippet, and I had the tarpon right on the sand when he made the move that finally wore my tippet in two. The piece that I pulled back felt like it had been dragged down a gravel road. Lesson: use the 80# shock tippet that is in the closet.

John hooked into a nice one.


I am very happy to say that John played his well and landed the fish.




The fish swam away happily on the release.




We celebrated the afternoon's fishing with shark tacos tonight.

[lurefisher]

Man Walker your the Man! Every time it's like im on vacation looking at your pic's ,Keep them coming.

[dcalbert]

Nice report and great pics!!

[Walker]

By the way - this afternoon's pics definitely qualify as West End pics. They were taken at the very western end of Anegada.

[Oleander Kayaker]

Gorgeous blue water! Thanks for the great pics!
Much nicer pics than Kenny's loose broad.

[Jamaicablonde]

We just got back from a sailing trip in the BVI. We didn't have enough time to make it to Anegada. Afer seeing your pics, wish we had made the time. Several of the places we moored we saw tarpon. We crewed the catamaran ourselves and the trip was everything I hoped for.

[dbarham]

nice

[Nwilkins]

Thanks again Walker

[nokatchin]

Great pics,again.Such a nice place.