Tarpon Adventure
It was a Friday morning when my friend Jose Vega invited me to go fishing with his son Gabo and two of my kids, Eduardo and Diego. Next day we were in the water at 7:00 am with Captain Pochy and his 17' fishing boat.
The kids were very exited when Pochy, from Light Tackle Adventure, caught around 100 sardines for bait with his net. Then we moved between Mayaguez and Añasco bay and immediately the three kids caught Tarpons, Snooks and Robalos. Mi oldest, Eduardo, caught a Robalo of approximately 10 pounds. Diego caught an 8 pounds Snook and Gabo caught a Tarpon and a Snook of about 8 pounds each. They kept bringing in Robalos and Tarpon's.
We got distracted and saw the three of them fighting a fish for a while until we decided to help and they had a 12 pounds "Sierra".
While Pochy and Jose were busy helping the kids one of the rods was hit by something big. Pochy told me to grab it and when the fish jumped out the water he said, ok guys this tarpon is above 100 pounds, lets open some space for Duky. After a fight of approximately 50 minutes I brought in the 150 pounds and 5'9" Tarpon on board. We took pictures and sent it back to the water. That was the biggest fish I ever caught. It was great to fight such a big fish with a spinning rod and a 20 pounds line.
Around 10:30 am we were heading back and the kids could not believe the experience.
