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StixHD
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 Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 8:53 am Post subject: Downtown CC tarpon??? |
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Has anybody ever caught or heard of someone catching tarpon downtown. I was just fishing at the Lexington and hooked into what I thought at first was a huge skipjack but then it stated taking so much drag. It jumped once and I couldn't really tell what it was because it was a good distance away. After the fact I began to think to myself. Could it have been a baby tarpon? If it was one that is the first tarpon I've ever hooked
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Oil Field Trash II
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| there are baby tarpon in the nueces river. they have to get out to the gulf somehow through the bay. |
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Donnie
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| Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 10:41 am Post subject: |
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| Oil Field Trash II wrote: | | there are baby tarpon in the nueces river. they have to get out to the gulf somehow through the bay. |
I hooked a 3 foot tarpon in the river just north of the rail road trestle - behind the Castle River neighborhood. I was using a black and white crappie jig, in a place that usually held flounder and specs now and then. Got 3 jumps out of him before he spit the hook out, flipped me off, and headed back out to sea.
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gdavis
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| Guy I was fishing with caught a big skipjack that did that today. They can make some good runs if they're big enough. I would assume if tarpon are nearby you would see them rolling every once in a while. |
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Johninaustin
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 7:30 am Post subject: |
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| I've seen tarpon caught off of Indian Point pier before, they are out there. |
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TroutSupport
Flour Bluffian in training
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 8:14 am Post subject: |
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| Definitely! |
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drum head
Finger Mullet
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Hooked one wading Portland
Hooked one wading Portland Reef. |
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Prof. Salt
Full Grown Flour Bluffian
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| Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2017 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Years ago I hooked a big one wade fishing under the causeway to Portland. It gave me a head shake above the surface before it hit the boosters and stripped all my line. |
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StixHD
Joined: 09 May 2017
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Location: Corpus Christi
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Wow didn't know tarpon were all the way up the nueces river! That's awesome to hear. Thanks for all the input guys.
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