Jake Jordan's Fishing Adventures

May 20th, 2009

Greetings from Tarpon World:

May 4, 5, 6, 2009:

Nikki and Steve wells from Toronto Canada, attended my Bonefish School in the Bahamas several years ago, since that time they have fly fished all over the world. Two years ago they joined me here in the Keys during early June where they experienced windy, rainy and rough weather.

We fished night Tarpon on fly during that time and they caught a few Silver king, enough for a return trip this year.

This year was different, the wind died down to under 10 - 15 knots, the sky was blue, and the sun/stars were bright. The water temperature was 79 degrees when they arrived and it was up to 83.7 when the left this morning. We fished three half day trips from noon to 4:30 PM each day and then we also fished the night Tarpon tides from midnight to 4 AM each night.

On May 6, the couple who rotate their shots at fish, wound up jumping seven fish, each angler released 2 on fly, all fish were between 90 and 120 pounds. The next day, May 7, we saw lots of fish, during the day however we could not get them to eat. The night shift was a little different as Nikki and Steve together jumped a total of ten Tarpon and released a total of 5, all of these fish were between 100 and 135 pounds and all were caught on 20 pound tippet.

May 8 we found a large happy school on the ocean side of Bahia Honda Key, which we followed for several miles with several looks at the fly but no bites. When we hit the water at 1:00 AM there was a shrimp hatch going off under the full moon, looked like daytime. The fish were eating aggressively (Shrimp Pattern) and we spent the next 4 hours hooked up to Tarpon. Most of our bites were big females (up to 150 pounds) and they were popping the shrimp in the surface, unfortunately it was hard to keep them hooked up and the ones that we did keep on were so big that my clients had a hard time getting them to the boat for a release. When we finally quit at 5:30 Am as the moon was setting and the sun was rising, Nikki and Steve had jumped 17 (THATS 17) big POONS on fly and landed one fish about 140 pounds. WOW!!!!! what a great evening, I do really love this job! Lets go fishing, call me? Regards: Jake