Reports from the boat log of Captain Ned SmallMarliss and Lee Frankman on the foredeck, casting to both sleepers and rollers, they each jumped a hundred pound fish from Jule’s Verne’s, the entrance to the netherworld, we lost them both, but that’s OK. We tried to decompress with a little snook fishing, but laid up tarpon interfered with our plans and Lee jumped another one, on an eight weight.
Lee Frankman and JPBrunet have been hammering the herring. We’re fishing every day, everybody is falling asleep on the boat, except for JP, he battled two big tarpon today, one was very cool at about sixty pounds, and the other was enormous, in two feet of muddy water, a mind bogling fish of about a hundred and fifty.
It’s not supposed to be like this in April, the cruelest month. Howling winds from the northwest, dirty water, dangerously low tides, impossible conditions. We all dismissed each other of any responsibility for catching anything, and then went tarpon fishing with fly rods. Lou hooked the tarpon printed on the back of his jersey right in the mouth. I’m as amazed and gratefull as I can be, the streak remains unbroken, contact, on every trip, including 3 struck two battled and one landed today. We’re not going into the size here, any tarpon today was HUGE!
Captain Ned Small
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