Balmy breezes from the south alternating with tepid calm zones. Robert Ford and his sons Alex and Matt fished with me today for half the day. We spent most of the time jigging with the boys catching …”five catfish, nineteen lady fish, five jack crevalle, three pufferfish, three nice pompano (in the icebox,) three flounder and a couple of other things. We trolled into a tarpon bay with the boys casting jigs, we would start poling up on the lee shore, Alex tied into something that stripped a hundred and fifty yards of line from his reel and got into the mangroves and broke him off. “It was a tarpon, a tuna, a giant snook, a tarpon, a mako, a great white, a big jack, a tarpon…” A few minutes later Robert had his first fly rod shot at a giant sleeper.
Congratulations to Bill Blanton on the tower and Bob Delaney on the foredeck today, on Bill’s boat, for landing a giant on fly in one hour. One hundred twenty five pounds. They got it done. And congratulations to Doug VanSlyke on the purple “Faunch Fly” they used.