Anybody have any eyes on tarpon off the beach?

Yes I saw a big tarpon yeaterday mornin, while I was not gettin any flounder action. Saw several pods of snook, a small permit, bonethead, and schools of croaker. Small white bait too, the snook seem to be close to the bait. The snook a very spooky, probably males lookin for love. The water may not be surfable but definitely fishable.

What bait are you using off the beach?

Ladyfish killing the bait today and hitting my lure.

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Ladyfish make great tarpon bait if less than 18-24" use live, or try a chunk!

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made the marathon paddle out yesterday in Indialantic. lots of bait pods on the outside.
My first left a nice sized tarpon rolled right in the curl of the wave about 10 ft in front of me as I was headed down the line.

Trying to go off the beach this weekend, questions where?

Cocoa beach, PAFB, Mel Beach?

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And for overslot snook

Went down to ocean ave this weekend, Saturday huge schools of big mullet in close and pogies out far, netted some of the mullet but only had a few strikes from what appeard to be small snook(scaled right behind the gills like one tried to eat headfirst but couldn't...blues or charks would have left teeth marks.)

Took the Gheenoe out yesterday same spot, got mullet early they were almost on dry sand before the sun came up but pogies vanished.....trolled around and got a few sharks before the glass minnows started piling up and here come a few tarpon. tried working edges with the mullet but no takers and it was blistering by 0900 so headed in.

I know big snuke have to be looking for those mullet but no dice for this panda!

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thanks for the update panda

Just got another tip of pogies south of patrick and north of paradise, pods were scattered but a few tarpon cruising the perimeters.

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Anyone seen tarpon south of ocean Ave?

Talked to a guy at black dog yesterday said he jumped 2 100+ lbers and his buddy landed a 120+/- out of kayaks yesterday at sun rise

fished the beach around OA(was offshore in a little jon boat)

saturday,from about 615-930...bait was scarce nothing really balled up,gettin beat up(which i was hopeing for)..seen a handful rolling,but that was it...no bites,no hook ups...buddy caught 2 lame ass sharks(figure thats not even worth mentioning..lol)

guess there's always next time... gotta find where those pogies are.at...

ran out of the port yesterday (7-23) bait was hard to find but eventually got a couple dozen pogies, ran south into the satellite beach area, saw some rolling, slow trolled and hooked up 4 nice tarpon but couldn't keep them buttoned up all the way to the boat. Then ran back a little north into the patrick area and drifted and jumped two more. not a bad day but would of liked to of boated a few. Bait was on the bottom in the cocoa beach area. we were able to find them on our depth finder and then cast net them letting it sink all the way to the bottom. Bait was in 10-15 ft of water.

super cool dude...thks for the info and heads up...we might give it a go this eveing..but not so far south..

broke one off Saturday am,down near patrick...hit a lipped plug,slow trolled(bait was tough to find)...buddy was to busy trying.to be a fucking production instead of keeping the line tight and concentrating on the fish...lol

if i heard "go pro"one more fuckin time that morning...i was gonna fucking go bonkers..lol  

Lots of tarpon out of sebastian inlet feeding on the huge pods of threadfins on saturday and sunday

^^^HAHAH^^^ glad im not the only one with kook friends lol

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definitely wouldnt put him in kook class....but fuckin A,he was KILLING ME,with that camera bullshit..lol,dont get me wrong some cats get killer footage, but this just wasnt the time for that...