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How to Fish for Tarpon
Growing at over eight meters and weighing over 280 pounds, is easy to see why the tarpon is one of the most sought after saltwater sport fishing in the world. It's habitat is near the coast for fishermen of all types and skill levels can catch them.
If you've ever had the privilege of plugging into a big tarpon then you know the joy and thrill of testing yourself in battle against fishing sports one of the most sought after in the world. This distinction is easy to see at first glance as the tarpon starts a series of spectacular acrobatic leaps in the air have your heart pounding, your rod bending and drag screaming. You better stop!
Since the tarpon's habitat is so close to the coast Fishermen of all types and skill levels can catch them. They can be caught from jetties, passes, docks, bridges, beaches, bays and rivers. Tarpon can be trapped, while many types of tackle, rods, baits, lures and rigs either while fishing from a boat, canoe, kayak or walking and wading from the coast shad work up and down the beach.
Live bait fishing bait of choice is the "crab dollars." A small live crab color blue about two inches across its carapace, connected through a shell or so below the leg by a swimmer. Another very effective live baits include herring pinfish, threadfin and sardines. In the days when the tarpon are meticulous in the selection is tablefare, try this for getting better results, and oh, by the way, do not forget a live mullet. If you can get them, use them. Flyfisherman not left out either. The stealth of casting the right fly can sometimes be the trick to hook up.
But what exactly is a Tarpon?
Scientific classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Elopiformes
Family: Megalopidae
Gender: Megalops
This creature exceptionally well is a prehistoric animal and the only fish with an air bladder. This allows you to absorb oxygen and live in waters with very low oxygen. You can see them gulp air at the surface of water. Tarpon are also called Poons, tarpum, tarpon, cuffum, silverfish or silver king and belong to the family of bony fish Elopidae. The designation of America is Megalops atlanticus.
While only microscopic at birth, tarpon have been documented at lengths of more than eight feet and weighing 280 pounds. Catches weighing 200 pounds, while uncommon, are produced. Many fish caught are over 100 pounds. Its growth rate is slow, taking 8 to 10 years to reach maturity, and in general the more than 100 pounds are female. Tarpon can live 55-60 years. They are greenish or bluish on top, and silver on the sides. The large mouth is upward and the lower jaw contains an elongated bony plate. The last ray of dorsal fin is much longer than the others, reaching nearly to the tail.
They are found mainly in shallow coastal waters and estuaries, but also found in open marine waters, around coral reefs, and in some freshwater lakes and rivers. Their normal migratory pattern ranges from Virginia to central Brazil in the western Atlantic along the African coast in the Atlantic East and along the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Florida is regarded as having many of the best tarpon fishing locations in the world, especially the famous passage of Boca Grande in southwest Florida.
Fishing for the tarpon can at times be an exercise in patience and discipline. You can be surrounded by large schools of shad containing hundreds of mobile fish and they do not hit anything to pull them. Other times, it's a feeding frenzy. So, go fishing for tarpon every chance you have, that the next world record catch may be waiting for you.
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