What a week of fishing! We put a lot of time in over the short trip and caught a lot of fish. Salt water: 23 sharks, 7 red drum, 3 jacks and a massive stingray. Plus; blue fish, catfish & whiting. Freshwater: 2 pickerel, 14 bowfin, loads of blue gill and a bass.
Saw some fantastic wildlife; watched dolphins hunting, pelicans & osprey diving on fish, aligators, snapping turtles, snakes, lizzards & tree frogs, massive spiders & loads of butterflies. And so much more - I could have spent the week chasing about with the camera!
Just remains for me to thank my fantastic hosts, Brooke & Sammi for their wonderful hospitality and Paulos for his phenomenonal guiding skills (and shark unhooking skills). It was a brilliant trip, and really gave me something to look forward to through the cancer year...
Tarpon - I'll be back!
I hope you wore long trousers and a thick shirt for the landing, it's got cooler whilst you were away and the pike time cometh.
ReplyDeleteBig hoodie & jeans and was still cold. Straight off the plane and off to casualty with a raging infection in my foot - laid up for a few days - then ready for pike time!
DeleteHope you didnt step on anything that you could of brought back!? I will avoid the small river for a bit. Well done, great trip.
DeleteAll those snakes, alligators and stingrays - and a sunburnt foot plus wading about in dirty water got me! Might tell people it was a rattlesnake bite!!
DeleteFantastic array of fishing out there, I'm not jealous....
ReplyDeleteA good mixed bad this time - as well as surf fishing was great to do a bit of freshwater fishing. All over far too quickly - already dreaming of my next visit!!
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