Any one care to share a tarpon report for May river/ Calibogue area? Might try off the south end of HH this weekend if we cant get offshore. Live horse mullet I would presume is the bait of choice.
Large menhaden and chum a lot of chunks behind the boat. At least one line up top and one down deep.
Nice big menhaden, dead mullet, lots of cut chum chunks. Dropped pogie bombs, floated live bait, dropped dead mullet. Anchored up in the Tarpon hole just out of calibogue inlet and caught a huge stingray! Right at the last bit of the rising tide through the slack. Pitiful. Not even a sharK! Crew got inpatient so we went out to a near shore reef and caught a few Spanish and sea bass. What the HEK?
At my favorite tarpon hole in the May River, I don’t chum at all. It attracts too many sharks. I like to fish a lively bait, a pinfish or something similar. I hook the bait just behind the dorsal fin and fish it with a small bobber to keep it from going too deep.The baitfish tends to swim away from the boat which is a good thing. Sometimes a whole blue crab works well with this set up. Just saying that it works for me, sometimes!
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Listen to oyster cracker. Chum just attracts sharks. Bottom fishing with dead bait mostly catches sharks. Live bait near the surface and have lot of patience. Crabs are my favorite tarpon bait and I usually use balloons for a float. I’d put out a couple of crabs, a couple of live fish, and keep them all off the bottom.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Swamp Worshiper
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Originally posted by Cracker Larryand keep them all off the bottom.
Agree on that. I have jumped a handful over the past few years, way inshore from the 170 and the calibouge, and all of them hit a lively surface bait
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