Fishy Creatures
I’ve had the pleasure of fishing with a long time friend of mine for the past two weeks. He is one of the fishiest people I know and he is a great fly fisherman. He’s spent the better part of his fishing career in the west fishing for trout on mountain springs and some of the best known rivers in Montana. He started coming down here to fish with me a few years ago and has made it a tradition ever since.
We had the luck of getting another friend from south Lake Tahoe to come out donning his high tech filming gear complete with microphones and underwater camera. Mikey Weir is a guide and works in South Lake Tahoe. He also produces videos from all over the world for trout fishing. Most of the filmed experiences are his own and this will be his first saltwater fly fishing video when it gets produced. You can visit his website at http://www.fisheyevideos.com.
He has a knack for the video and an eye for making each angle and each strike count. I think over a weeks time we got some sick eats on tarpon, a great take from a tailing permit and some wading bonefish shots on some of the prettiest flats in the lower Florida Keys.
Yesterday we headed out for a morning run for some tarpon. Seeing fellow guide Simon Becker at the boat ramp and knowing he was up early to do the same thing we were. He mentioned as we were driving away, “Catch a big one…. or I guess I mean catch a little one…”. This time of year the tarpon range from 60lbs. right down to 10lb. baby tarpon that hide in very coveted holes around the mangrove islands of the Florida Keys.
We headed to one of my favorite spots that I had not been to all season. It’s really just a place you take friends to fish and I always explain to them how fragile the baby tarpon holes are and that we only come disrupt them once in a while so they don’t leave.
We ended up jumping a few tarpon and just getting a good look at a great little tarpon hole. Mikey got some good footage and he even got in there and jumped a nice size tarpon a few times.
I’m headed to Labrador to fish with my Dad this next week. I’m looking forward to some mellow trout fishing and getting some time in with my Dad.
