Tarpon off Fig 8, NC ........ - Boating & Fishing Information and Reports Forum

Ice Cream Man · #1 (**permalink**) 09-17-2010, 06:23 AM

What an incredible sight , maybe a 100 large Tarpon grey-hounding , less than a mile off the hill ........ ICM

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offshore · #2 (**permalink**) 09-19-2010, 10:23 PM

Great video!! Could you get any to bite? Kind of a rare sight in NC it looks like Boca!!....Mark

Ice Cream Man · #3 (**permalink**) 09-20-2010, 05:44 AM

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Originally Posted by offshore

Great video!! Could you get any to bite? Kind of a rare sight in NC it looks like Boca!!....Mark

Mark,

We went rigged for Reds in the suds & False Albie's. Not Tarpon, doubt we could have landed any on 10 & 15# test.........

A few minutes before we spotted them grey-hounding I saw a big Shark come thrashing out of the water - he must have been on those Tarpon. I imagine they were grey-hounding to get away & not feeding .........

We were both awed in the power & beauty of those Tarpon - didn't really cared if we hooked one .......

This was one of those times when being a spectator to nature was it's own reward ....... ICM