First I just want to say thanks to my dad for giving me the chance to land my first tarpon. However, we have to give credit to Capt. Roff for putting us on the fish so quickly. It was a beautiful morning, and while we were catching bait, which were everywhere, we saw a tarpon roll by the boat. I knew it was going to be a good day. After catching bait we decided to give the spot we saw the poon roll earlier a try, but after 20 minutes, it was a no go so we headed out to sea to try a different spot. The Capt. locked on his honey hole, and we chunked a couple lively mullet out behind the boat into the breakers.
Not 15 minutes later a nice poon came launching out of the water and the reel went singing. After a quick test of seeing just how much draft a 21’ Sea Pro really has, we(I) had a nice 1.5 hour struggle of wills. Got the fish boatside 4-5 times but everytime she was still green. She put on a quite a show jumping about 7 times, of which we only got 2 on film. The most impressive was a head first jump towards the boat at 25 yds. that resulted in a double jump as she hit the water and jumped again.
After getting her to the boat multiple times I was beat, so I gave the rod over to my dad, Ranger Rick, to try to wrangle her in enough to get a boatside pic. Which worked out good because I was able to get some good video of the finally. It took him another 20 minutes just to get her settled enough to try for the leader again. After getting the leader in hand twice Capt. Roff decided to double hand it and let her do her thing. The end of the clip was the result. She straightened and broke off a forged 8/0 circle hook.
Thanks again to Capt. Roff, and my dad for an experience I will never forget. She was estimated at a length of around 60" and weight of 110-115 pounds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRlEhqMrhek
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