Tarpon near the SI beach?

Was as SI yesterday with the family for a beach day and there were 3 boats anchored between 300-1000 yards off the beach. I’m assuming they were tarpon fishing, saw one guy using a balloon way back behind the boat. Are they just using the biggest live bait they can find?

One other observation, saw a lot of bird working just past the breakers, assuming they were following SM but never saw any surface activity or fish jumping.

2014 Key West 203DFS
1987 Landau

Whiting fisherman

Charleston City Papers Best Guide of 2014

ha ha. Yeh, fish for whiting, turn whiting into tarpon bait…

2014 Key West 203DFS
1987 Landau

Sullivan’s or Seabrook? But they were definitely fishing for rays.

Sharking for sure.

Crabbing since there are none around DI.

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