Lake Tarpon, Tuesday

Just for the curious to know: Bill & I did return to Tarpon last Friday 11/13
We elected to start out Long-lining using 6 rods out back - 2 off sides.
14' rods off sides - single 16th oz road runners - Blue Cheese (gold head - blade -
blue body - yellow feather - no minnow - 60ft back speed .9 mph
6 rods out rear - 2 - 10's - 2 - 7's & 2 - 5.5.ft - All Micro-lite rods (extremely
flexible -carbon fibre) Jigs - ran all single jigs, minnow tipped on rods.
2 - 10's 16th oz white jig- slider acid rain
2- 7's 16th oz - Red head / white eyes - AWD curley tails -blue-white-sparkle tails
2-5.5's 16th oz - white/red jig heads - mylar bodies - red - copper - cream
Rear rods were minnow tipped...............distance behind boat 25 - 35 - 45 ft

As stated started speed .9 - not much action - moved to 1.0 - little more returns
- at 1.1 - fish were connecting with various rods 1 every 4 minutes............
Working water in 12 - 14'depth.

More fish were taken going into wind - then riding with wind.
zig-zig motion was employed - to check if bite would increase (it did)

at 11:30 wind was comming out of North West - 8 - 11 mph down the lake.
Bite suddnely stopped.............and did not return any mode rest of day when
we pulled plug 3pm.
Color changes from Red - Blues - Blades - White - made no difference - even after
we went to Yellow - (various shades - Green, various shades & Brown )
We ended up keeping 23 spec's over 11", largest being 13 1/2" 1 lb 4.5 oz,
retained 10 spec's in range of 8 - 10" for elderly lady from old school florida who
liked small fish - scaled - heads off & field cut. Threw back 43 spec's, bass of various
sizes up to 4 lbs, few bluegills & 2 mud fish - no gar's
7 Fish weigh in - 8 lbs - 6.4 oz



Lake Tarpon in early am.


Bill - ready for action