Phill and I walked out into the surf to about 2 foot depth and scoured the surf from shore to about 30 yards out for signs of feeding tarpon. |
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For game fisherman the great catches are marlin, sailfish, tarpon and bonefish. |
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The night dive here produced more dive-bombing by huge tarpon, feeding on a bait-ball of silversides attracted by our floodlights. |
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The saltwater river harbors prized snook, trout, largemouth bass, redfish, and even tarpon. |
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In the mangrove-lined estuaries that ring most of the 2,000-miles of sparsely inhabited coast you can fish for trevally, queenfish or tarpon. |
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The tarpon fishing was carried out in flat-bottomed punts called jon boats. |
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Species that feed at dusk are termed crepuscular and include jacks snappers, tarpon, cornetfishes and groupers. |
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On a night dive we were met by several dozen massive tarpon, with remoras patrolling below the boat under the floodlights. |
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Among these clades are such diverse forms as arawanas, knifefishes, mormyrids, eels, tarpon, and herring. |
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He told me that there were snook and tarpon and there were large bonefish and permit to fish for. |
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That same morning, I was fighting a leaping tarpon on a tropical flat in southern Belize. |
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And, during the peak of the season, big fish such as tarpon and bull sharks occasionally are hooked. |
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In Anguilla, the only sailfish we ever caught was on a kite-bait, and our most successful tarpon fishing there revolved around winds strong enough to lift the kites. |
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Biologists also are in varying stages of research and replenishment of cobia, speckled trout, tarpon, snook, crappie, bluegill and striped bass stocks. |
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If funds permit, then a mixed itinerary that includes billfish, tarpon, bonefish, or even dorado, is well within the scope of a two or three week expedition. |
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I learned to scuba dive under oil platforms, artificial reefs supporting grouper, amberjack, lookdowns, tarpon, spadefish and barracuda. |
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But once out there, it's not unusual to see spotted rays or even nurse sharks cruising along a 2,000-foot wall, or for anglers to hook bonefish, tarpon, or snook. |
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Yeah, problem was, there literally wasn't anybody to paddle out with, and I could see all the mullet, and the snook, tarpon and sharks feeding on them out there. |
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Fish usually caught from shore include striped bass, bluefish, tarpon, bonefish, and permit. |
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The earliest known member of the tarpon family appears to be the fossil Sedenhorstia, from the Upper Cretaceous of Europe and Lebanon. |
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It was named by one of the first settlers for what she thought were tarpon, a large, silvery game fish, leaping in the ocean. |
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The chain could being with your fly in a permit, then lead eventually into a tarpon. |
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It is one of the few places where you could pull in a daisy chaining tarpon. |
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It's a fast growing branch of angling today and I suppose it can be likened to fishing for redfish, snook or tarpon except it's done in freshwater. |
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Blue crystal-clear waters teem with game fish such as bonefish, permit, and tarpon, which have grown accustomed to a rich diet of shrimp and crabs. |
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Trout and tarpon fight wildly when first hooked. |
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Fish sought after include marlin, tuna, tarpon, sailfish, shark, mackerel, and many others. |
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Common saltwater varieties include bluefish, pompano, flounder, mackerel, mullet, trout, redfish, snappers, groupers, snook, sailfish, tarpon, shad, weakfish, bonefish, marlins, and sharks. |
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They focussed instead on profitable species like conch, mahimahi, parrotfish, tarpon, tuna, and wahoo, while lionfish ravaged reefs and displaced native species. |
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Nothing is punctured or pushed into the muscle of the tarpon or placed under a scale as with the old dart tags. |
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Florida and the Bahamas hold bonefish, redfish and tarpon as sacred game fish and have huge economic benefits. |
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But several tarpon have been caught this year. |
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Keep detailed notes about when and where you find laid up tarpon as they seem to return to the same areas year after year. |
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Here you'll find tarpon waiting to ambush prey that's moving in and out of the Peace River. |
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The first tarpon of the year always seem to arrive in the rivers far south of Marco Island as early as Valentine's Day. |
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Although the tarpon are released, Peters promises that each guest will return with a great fish story. |
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Working the coral heads and channels with surface plugs was amazing for mutton snapper, 'cudas, jacks and occasionally grouper and tarpon. |
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New Fly-Fishing Hotspot As Punta Allen, Mexico, has emerged as a fly-fishing destination, local lobstermen have been enlisted to serve as guides to where to find bonefish, tarpon and permit. |
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Biology and management of the world tarpon and bonefish fisheries. |
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Calm wind, low light, that's when tarpon will be up rolling. |
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Like estuaries, mangrove swamps are extremely important breeding grounds for many fish, with species such as snappers, halfbeaks, and tarpon spawning or maturing among them. |
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