| South Padre Surf Report
South Padre Island,
TX
September 1st, 2004
Report by Rob |
Weather was crappy, rain off & on, but I saw 2 Tarpon yesterday,
just finished a huge work project this afternoon that I justified as reason
to look again this evening. Thought it stupid with the bad weather but went
anyway. Surf was full of bait, skips & a lot of sharks. Found the Tarpon
in the 3rd feeding frenzy I tried. Immediately hooked a huge one, 6-8 feet,
on a glow She Dog with my trout rod. Gave me one hell of an aerial and sent
the little dog flyin. Went back for the big rod and bigger bait. They wouldn't
touch it. Saw at least 30 Tarpon this evening probably more like 60. Skipjacks
were feeding on rain minnow bait balls & I assume the Tarpon were feeding
on the skips.
I chased a huge feeding frenzy for a mile or 2, bout an hour an a
half. Kept running back to the truck & drive ahead of them. Had them
all around me but no takers. Went back to the truck, took the hooks off the
glow She Dog & replaced them with the big hooks from the offshore lure.
Dog wouldn't float with the big hooks & leader, just tried to make some
commotion with it and on the 3rd cast it got the attention of one.
Fight was about 20 minutes, lots of aerials & runs in out &
sideways. Tried to bow to the king on each aerial, it worked. He took me
about 1/2 mile down the beach & fortunately another 1/4 back up towards
the truck. Put him in the water 3 times coming back. He beat the crap out
of me on the way back. Check out the bruise on the right side of my girlyman
chest. Been wanting to land one of these guys from the surf for a long long
time. If not for Tyler I would still be wanting to.
Sorry about the crappy photo. My camera was run over by a golf cart
a while back so I don't have a display & had to memorize the button order
to push to get the timer to come on. I was rushing to lift that sucker up
so it came out blurry but couldn't waste any more time so I took a couple
by the truck too. Wish the one holding it would have come out, wanted to
print it. Took forever to get the hooks out, got that soft part of the lip,
upper corner. Had to cut one hook. Got him back in the water.... took a long
time but was most pleased to get a face full of water when he finally took
off.
- Rob
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