Inshore tarpon

[Bobbrown]

The previous tarpon question got me to wondering......they ever come inshore.
Thanks

 

[Scallen2112]

Yep! There was one that hung out at a spot on the McKay river last year. We saw it a couple times while fishing for trout, but didn't think of throwing at it with the inshore rods. It was out in front of a big set of shell beds rolling on the surface. We didn't see it for a few minutes and my buddy throws a live shrimp under a popping cork up in about three feet of water on the beds. Dang if he didn't hook that tarpon. It exploded up out of the water and immediately broke the leader. That fish hung out there from iid August to well into September.

 

[Angel Eyes]

September of last year saw them all the way to highway 17 on the Champney river. Rolling around in big schools of pogies.

 

[Silver Bullet]

Those fish are crazy on the Champney...
SB

 

[jasper181]

I catch them right inside the sound occasionaly around Wassaw.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

Oh yeah, we used to fish for them all the time in Sarasota Bay and Tampa Bay. Never really had any luck, though.