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WTH? You can't pull them out of the water. Better delete this thread before FWC sees it.
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The best FL comment was about a snook. "Illegal catch! Outside the slot! Out of season!" Yeeeeah.... about that...
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Nice work. What are you catching them on down there? Fishing inlets, offshore, along the beach? Need a deckhand?
Sometimes live bait on a circle hook is the ticket - ribbon fish or what the locals call 'sardina'. Other times jigs (relatively heavy and big - my guys make them). When the ocean is too rough to clear the bar (AKA 'the chocolate wall of death) and we're in the river mouth we use Rapala SSR-14s, either the shad or the red and white (usually the red and white). Rapala freely admits the SSR-14 isn't strong enough (hooks bend out) and we've been experimenting with No. 7 and No. 9 'J' hooks replacing the OEM treble hooks but the jury is still out. We also use Rapalas on tarpon actually in the river (tarpon, porpoises and bull sharks go upriver to Lake Nicaragua - why? who knows).
Had a couple of Brits recently - who've been coming for years - who used surface poppers on a jigging rod to some success.
We fish the ocean and the river (for tarpon but with a lot of bycatch like jack crevalle, mackerel, barracuda, cubera snapper, etc.). Ocean - it's pretty much close in but we do we go out several miles to where it drops to 80 feet or so - the 'blue water' line. Sometimes even farther out.
Wish I had a picture of one of the massive schools rolling in the ocean, but I never have my wide-angle lens with me when we're in one - hundreds if not thousands of tarpon over a couple of acres. I think I'd need a Cinemascope camera!
River mouth when we can't get over the bar or it's just too rough. The river when the level is down and the tarpon are channelized.