| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
RPool
Member White Shrimper Boot Club
Joined: 06 Mar 2006
Posts: 795
Location: San Antonio; Padre Island
|
 Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:38 am Post subject: Second trip to the Keys for tarpon on the fly |
 |
|
| Fished two days last week out of Key West with Grif Hedwig, fly guide extraordinaire. Last year gave plenty of targets but the fish weren't feeding at all and all I got was a few "feeds" and "takes". This year, fewer fish but we found them on a "guppy hatch, actively feeding with the cormorants. Got my first solid jumps and runs, last one that went about 80 lbs. Still a rookie, but what a gas! By the way, haven't met a Keys guide that doesn't use a "Stiffy" pushpole. |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
bulldog1935
Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 07 Feb 2017
Posts: 1061
Location: downtown Bulverde, Texas
|
| Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 5:37 am Post subject: |
|
|
When my friend Scott Graham was guiding tarpon at Port O'Conner in the summers, he would break a 12-wt rod each month - either the rod or rip the reel foot off the reel.
https://gulffishing.com/txtarpon.html |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
RPool
Member White Shrimper Boot Club
Joined: 06 Mar 2006
Posts: 795
Location: San Antonio; Padre Island
|
| Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2019 10:45 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Where is Scott Graham now? I remember that jumbo tarpon he got. Fished with him below Canyon Dam - great guy, great guide. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
lagunaflyoutfitters
Horse Mullet
Joined: 23 Mar 2006
Posts: 127
|
| Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2019 5:31 pm Post subject: tarpon |
|
|
| glad you too are addicted. took my whole family this year in 2 boats. had a blast those guys can get it on |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
bulldog1935
Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 07 Feb 2017
Posts: 1061
Location: downtown Bulverde, Texas
|
| Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2019 8:46 am Post subject: |
|
|
| RPool wrote: | | Where is Scott Graham now? I remember that jumbo tarpon he got. Fished with him below Canyon Dam - great guy, great guide. |
Scott followed his wife to her new job in NC. He retired from NYC chef to fly fishing guide at 30-y-o. Great guy.
i learned some great spots on the Guadalupe tailrace by watching each Scott and Lefty Ray from a distance.
This is the run upstream from River Road IceHouse. I was fishing farther down at lower Rio one day when Scott brought a fare here to wade.
  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
