One night, with a small tarpon rod I killed seven sergeant fish, average 28 lb.
When the tarpon is struck, he invariably jumps into the air from six to ten feet, and shakes his head to shake the hook out, an effort in which he often succeeds.
I think Lord Desborough holds the record with a tarpon of 240 lb.
Whereas a {546} salmon is killed by a rod and delicate handling, a tarpon is killed by the line and herculean strength.
But with each fresh effort the tarpon became weaker, until Dick said to Ned: "He's about played out.
He imagined a tarpon jumping into it, a shark swimming against it, or a porpoise smashing it.
The frequent swamping of canoes and skiffs by porpoises, or dolphins, tarpon and manatees are all experiences of my own.
Dick started up from his seat, while Ned tried to fend off with the paddle, but the hard, pointed head of the big tarpon tore through the bottom of the fragile canoe as if it had been paper.
You caught your tarpon and you wouldn't have done any more if you had lain in the bottom of the canoe and let it spank you all night.
The boys took a lot of the big silver scales as souvenirs and then slid the body of the tarpon into the bay, where it was soon devoured by a couple of wandering sharks.
Dick took the rod, Ned removed the hook from the mouth of the tarpon and hoisted its head over the gunwale.
The tarpon changed his course, came back a little, leaped once more and again started off.
An American who had caught both tarponand tuna informed me that he considered the latter fish to afford far the best sport.
The tuna never jumps like the tarpon when hooked, he either rushes along below the surface or goes deep.
On the other hand, the American fishermen use quite a short gaff, but fishing with a six or seven foot tarponrod they can bring the fish much closer up to the side of the boat.
I had a large Nottingham reel with 200 yards oftarpon line, purchased in England, not, alas!
The reel should take 200 yards oftarpon line and be of the very best and strongest make.
Had I succumbed, I much fear I should have become an ardent advocate of tarpon methods applied to tyee salmon.
I purchased two tarpon lines in London; who the maker was I cannot say.
One American tarpon fisher, Mr. Griswold, a true sportsman too, followed this method and naturally defended it.
Grey Griswold from New York, of tarpon fame, come to try his luck with the tyee salmon, and good luck it was, which such a good sportsman deserved.
It certainly was a most killing bait, and Mr. Griswold, between his special spoon and his tarpon methods, killed more fish than any of us for the time he remained at the Campbell River.
They heard a shout, followed by a splash and the spasmodic flapping of a big fish landed on the deck, and they knew that the first tarpon had been caught.
The captain, abandoning the wheel for a moment, reached forth and grabbed a tarpon rod that was sliding overboard.
Tarpon are bound to bite now, aren't they, Captain?
He prepared to use it as soon as the tarpon came within reach.
With staring eyes he watched the line cut through the water, and every minute he and Billy expected to see a tarpon just as big as the first one leap from a wave.
A big tarpon leaped out of the bosom of a wave, glittered one moment in the sunlight, and then darted back into its native element.
For the next few minutes the Arrow ran so much risk of having the sails blown off or the mast broken, that all rejoicing over the capture of the two big tarpon was banished by the imminence of the danger.
Besides, his tarpon seemed to have been more securely hooked than the first one, and Billy now knew just what to do.
They finally regained control of their nerve, however, and decided to have it out with the fish, so one of them seized an axe and the others hand-spikes and at the tarpon they went.
The vessel was gliding along smoothly when the monotony of the voyage was broken by a six foot tarpon leaping upon the deck from the water.
You boys might as well heave them old tarpon poles overboard now," he said seriously, as he shifted the helm.
The tarpon is a fish of the tropical seas and is peculiarly sensitive to cold.
With the tarpon or tuna rod, and with the reel either on top or underneath, a socket for the rod butt becomes necessary in playing a very heavy fish.
A tarpon would not notice the slight pull on the line from such a reel, as it renders on the slightest provocation.
As thetarpon lay on the floor Mr. Savarese asked, "What will he weigh?
Sidenote: Breeding Grounds] The tarpon breeds in the West Indies and Central America, but not, I believe, in Florida.
At any rate, to Colonel Wood belongs the credit of bringing rod fishing for tarpon into the prominence and popularity it now holds.
Sidenote: Tarpon Reel] The plan of having a quantity of slack line in the boat, as mentioned, is really not necessary with a reel of the best quality, and is open to several obvious objections.
One must have rod, reel, line and gaff suitable for tarpon fishing, and an abundant supply of good spoon hooks, wire leaders and swivels.
Some leap out of the water from time to time, as the mullet (Mugil) or the tarpon (Tarpon atlanticus).
I have had many tarpon and many tuna taken off my hooks by sharks because I was using tackle too light.
In August, 1914, I arrived at Avalon with tuna experience behind me, with tarpon experience, and all the other kinds of fishing experience, even to the hooking of a swordfish in Mexico.
Why, a tarpon is child's play compared to holding a fast swordfish.
My empire was not won; my first tarpon was as if he had never been.
Obviously, then, this becomes true oftarpon and sailfish and small tuna.
A school of feeding tarpon closed the mouth of the lagoon.
Here a huge tuna would turn on his side, gleaming broad and bright, and there another would roll on the surface, breaking water like a tarpon with a slow, heavy souse.
All at once the tarponbegan to show, to splash, to play, to roll.
The rolling of the tarpon diminished, and finally ceased as noon advanced.
Eventually I captured him, and I considered him superior to a tarpon of equal or even more weight.
Baron Tregar, how exceedingly delightful of you to come this way and surprise me when I fancied you were so keen about those horrid tarpon that you wouldn't leave them for all I wrote and wrote.
I have a permanent Washington address which I have taken pains to notify of my interest intarpon and to which he writes.
One hears such stories of the gaminess of this fish, of the fight, prolonged through many hours, at times, which is necessary to land it, that he soon contracts the tarpon fever.
Probably no one who fishes at all can withstand the temptation to try his hand at tarpon when visiting the Gulf of Mexico waters.
Let him have it," urged the boatman, for one secret of successful fishing for tarpon is to give the fish plenty of time to gorge the bait.
The oarsman said it was a tarpon of average size; but to the fisherman he looked to be fifty feet long and to weigh a ton.
Also the sportsman fishes fortarpon beyond the lagoons.
They wanted to know all about the game in the region, what flies or lures the bass were taking, as to the prevalence of diamond-backs, and if the tarpon were striking beyond the natural rock wall.
Then came the windings of the New River, past Tarpon Bend and into the passage between the well-known shores where the Bentley yacht was docked.
But Ann saw the immense tarpon that leaped out of the water and back.
Jimmy's mullet bait was gorged by a tarpon about the middle of the morning.
Haven't I seen him watching those big tarpon jumping this very afternoon?
Nick, anxious to get Jimmy away from the tarpon temptation; for he feared the lucky Irish lad might sooner or later get hold of some monster, which would put his prize out of the running.
First off, you'd have to fish in one of our little dinkies; and a tarpon is such a powerful fish, it'd drag you miles and miles before giving up.
Bob excitedly pointed out a group of six or eight big tarpon lazily wallowing about fifty feet beneath them.
Like thetarpon they thus keep close company on account of the sharks (supposition).
Indeed, the sharks are a nuisance, and will sometimes cut your tarponin two close to your boat, and they eagerly await the time when you land your fish and unhook him to turn him loose.
Most of our ambitious tarpon fishers go to Florida, where each fish captured will probably cost you some fifty dollars.
To rest myself and vary the sport I would leave the tarpon and tackle the red-fish, an equally game and fighting fish, but much smaller, scaling about 15 to 20 lbs.
My tarpon ground was at Aransas Pass, on the Gulf Coast of Texas.
Of course on a moonlight night you can see all that is going on, and the tarpon looks like a dream fish as the silvery light glitters on his gleaming sides.
This all sounds very simple and straight forward, but there is no end to the tricks of which a tarpon is capable.
He hooked an enormoustarpon which ran straight out to the gulf.
I never felt so sorry for anything in my life as I did for thattarpon as I played him.
I must say I felt very nervous at first as to my chances of landing a tarpon at Captiva, having been told it was so impossible a feat for a woman to achieve.
Then he answered: "Tarpon may be biting, but I am not.
Quay was very fond of tarpon fishing and had a winter place in Florida.
It is now becoming better known to anglers who visit Florida in the winter season, who recognize in it much more enjoyable sport on light tackle than they can obtain with the heavy tools required for the tarpon and jewfish.
Northern anglers who go to Florida in quest of the tarpon will find in the cero and kingfish game-fishes of great merit on light tackle.
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