Boca Grande Tarpon Fishing June 13, 2009

I finshed Boca Grande with a buddy Captain Haley and Joe Fallucca on Sat the 13th of June. We left Naples at 3:30am and arrived in Boca Grande about 5:30am. We watched the sun rise as we cruised into Boca Pass for some serious tarpon fishing. Joe hooked a fish at 10:30am and handed the rod to me at 10:35am. I proceeded to fight the fish for another 45 minutes before we got broke off in a classic Boca Grande traffic jam! That was our best shot of landing a fish for today. We had other hookups but no fish to the boat. Dan's brother Captain Phil Haley landed a 190 pounder and I saw two tarpon get eaten by hammer head and bull sharks. One lady in the bow of another boat in a fighting chair almost got knocked out of the boat when a tarpon leaping out of water to escape a hugh hammer head shark hit her in the shoulder and landing on the other side of the boat. It was a crazy, exciting, and beautiful and well worth the effort! The below pictures show some of the action:


Captain Zeke "Tarpon On"


Captain Phil Haley and Excited Young Angler