Beach Tarpon bite has been Awesome! some pics and reports

Capt. Andy Tasker

The tarpon on the beach is one that I will never forget! Using lures from the D.O.A. bait buster to spoons have been working great. Gulp baits are working great too, just try to match the size of the glass minnows. The glass minnows are still around and are at different spots every time I search for them. Live mullet is not working good just from watching people trying. Even thread fins and pilchard are just not what they are trying to eat. They only want the small minnows, thats only from fishing at the beaches around the minnows. But fishing the bridges and channels is a different story then with live bait. How fishing has been its like something you would be watching on tv and on the west coast or in the keys. Snook fishing is ok and should pick back up. Were are the mullet? They are starting to show up a little late this year but they are coming. I have seen some little pods around.

Kelsea with a nice **** that are the size that I like to catch.

Miner with a nice ****.

Me with a nice nice big **** that was a long fight and almost spooled me a couple of times. Yes there are sharks around but just be smart and I did take a chance. Just with big fish keep them in the water and get a quick pic and revive them back up.

. Charter I did with 11yr old Mat on his first tarpon and it was pushing around 150pds, the kid was on cloud 9. It put on a great show and beat up the kid for hr before line broke with fish next to boat.

Chad thumbing his real to try and stop the fish and also saving his drag from burning up, LOL, Just make sure that if its about to spool yah, grab the bail and break it off. We don't need a fish swimming with 300yrs of braid out there. Also you will be done for fishing that day.

Nice jump shot I got, I have taken over 10gigs of pictures in the last 4 weeks and some pics are great.



Drew with a nice ****, and a great shot I got of him!

Nice spinner I got the other week! such amazing looking shark. Dont try this! LOL
ALSO, IF YOU GO FISH FROM BOAT DONT MOTOR UP ON THE SCHOOL OF BAIT OR GET RIGHT ON TOP OF THEM PLEASE. THE FISH ARE EVERYWHERE AROUND THE SCHOOL FROM 100YARDS AWAY +. DONT COME RIGHT UP ON THE BEACH AND SCARE THE FISH. IF YOU WANT TO COME UP THAT CLOSE THAN JUST FISH ON THE BEACH. KEEP YOUR EYE OPEN WHEN YOUR OUT THERE AND IF YOU SEE SOME ONE HOOKED UP WITH A **** MOTOR OUT CAUSE THAT FISH IS JUST GONNA GO RIGHT FOR THE BOAT AND GO PAST YOU. AT LEAST STAY 100YARDS OFF THE BEACH. I HAVE SEEN TOO MANY FISH THAT GOT BROKEN OFF FROM THE FISH GETTING RUN OVER BY BOATS.. NOT TRYING TO BE MEAN JUST SAYING WORDS THAT EVERYONE FEELS AND SAYS FROM THE BEACH.. JUST RESPECT THE PEOPLE FISHING FROM LAND. WE ALL WANT TO CATCH THEM AND WE ALL WANT TO HAVE FUN.

Austins26

Great Report/Pictures Thanks for sharing

Bearmatic

That was a good report and some nice tarpon.

BigJoup

Nice job, awesome tarpon action and great pics!

Rollin

Good stuff Andy and some great photos.

southerntide

Sick report! Are you staying near the Stuart area or going farther north or south?

PompanoSlayer

The Miners have been bragging to us about their tarpon skills! Great fish.

e-money

Nice beach poons and cool website, best of luck!
PSI hear you on beach courtesy. FYI last paragraph is all caps, some folks interpret that ALL CAPS as "shouting"
(just an FYI, jus sayin, and GREAT pics)

Marker954

Glad I was able to get out for a few days of it while it lasted. That kind of run can really spoil you fast. We'll have to see if they stick around for the mullet now.
Great report.

summer daze

Very nice catches and AWESOME photos. I think you may have hooked that 11 year old on tarpon fishing. Hope the seas are nice this weekend, wanna chase a few in the boat !!

Fi$h2nguyen

Nice pics! Looks like a lot of fun.

HappyCaster Hewes

All I can say is WOW...those are spectacular pictures and indicative of some serious angling talent.

Islandia

Some of those shots are possible award winning contenders

Love it

Permitchaser

Amazing pics,live action.

capt_toddtt

Outstanding!

Offshore9393

those are some awesome pics good job. When you are in the boat are you throwing lures too or are you using live bait?

BocaBoca

Thanks for the report and pix AND the final words about sound fishing protocol; you know what you're doing and it's good to get advice. They are beautiful fish and we are lucky to see them let alone catch one.

Capt. Andy Tasker

Thanks guys, was catching all of them on lures. On the boat was using lures too. With charters I was using mullet. It seems the beach is too nasty to fish them and I just got back from the keys. It was a fun time bugging, thought everything was gonna be bugged out but still found a bunch but in hard spots. Thanks for all the nice comments! couple pics from keys.

Bite N Hold

Great with a rod and a camera!!! Those pics are insane!!!!!!!

e-money

You take some great pics (bugs look DELICIOUS) and super nice website!

SnookMan772

Awesome Pics Andy!!!!

reelgrimm

sweet pics.. gotta love fishing from the sand and not hving to clean the boat afterwards

Capt. Andy Tasker

For sure, don't have to worry about it jumping in the boat too. Had that happen before and that broke a couple rods and made a big mess.

robalorog

Awesome pics. I love the one with the tarpon breaking the surface and you could see the mark in the water from where the line peeled up from. You must have a good camera.