Florida Farewell

Patty and I went and got the boat this past weekend from the keys. We were pressed for time so we only finished a day and a half. We headed out onto the flats to hunt sharks and tarpon. We ended up with several nice lemon sharks plus a few big bonnet head sharks. I caught a few lemon sharks on the fly. The rest we caught on shrimp and cut bait. All sight fishing. We had several shots at at tarpon, mostly baby tarpon, but none would eat. We headed back to town and we ended up catching several large jacks and I broke off two tarpon in the passes on jigs. The following morning we headed it out and caught a bunch of big jacks and a cero mackerel. We left them biting and prepared for the long drive home. As soon as this lousy weather at home quits the fish should be here in force.