I thought some of you might find this interesting.
On the year I've gone 92 for 372 on the tarpon. 24.7%
On ADULT tarpon (80 lbs or more) I've gone 20-60. 33.3%
Juvis are then 72/312. 23.1%
Juvis on fly 6/17. 35.3%
In this small sample you can see from my data that juvis are pretty darn hard to land... and the adults are landed at almost 50% more frequently than the juvis. The fly rod dominates on the juvis it seems... and honestly I'm terrible with the fly rod. I should have realistically landed over half those fish... My clients landed about 70% when they were fly fishing (but again a small sample size).
Anyway... thought a few of you might find those #'s interesting.
Oh... and nearly all the juvis were caught on artificials. The adults are about 50% artificials roughly.
-Mag
Tarpon... everything else is just bait.
Captain Keith -
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Kidding! those are some awesome numbers!
and let's not forget the GPS numbers too!!! :rotflmao
That's incredible though Keith... Keep up the great work.
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I know many that prefer the small verses the big nasty's.
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My stats on artificials vs live is very limited... I haven't been as good about keeping track of it. But I can definitely say that with live bait, especially free lined live bait... the landing ratio goes way up (so does the size of the fish).
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Cool, thanks for the info. I assume it is like lady fish, albeit much larger. Mouths that are hard along with a bunch of head shaking.
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Did you film that? If so, nice work.
I might have to try it some day. I was fishing cayo pass a few weeks ago and a tarpon was surface feeding, it had to be 150 lbs. It was pretty slick to watch.
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Viewers knew it wasn't me because there was no thumb in the way.
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I have also noticed it happens more with smaller fish (maybe 1 of 10), but I suspect tongue hooked fish are not any more prevalent with the little guys than it is with larger fish, but because the smaller fish are less likely to wear through a leader, you land (and thus see) more of them.
It also happens more with flies, but also happens with baitbusters and used to happen occasionally when I used to fish heavily with J hooks. I've never tongue hooked a fish with a circle hook.