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| Frank with his Tarpon |
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| Close-up of Tarpon |
Here we were on what may be our last trip to Florida fishing our favorite little pond and the fishing was terrible. We couldn't catch anything, even though we could see large fish swimming around during the day. We tried every lure we brought, when finally Frank had a good hit and we couldn't believe our eyes when he pulled in this juvenile Tarpon! We shouldn't have been so surprised since over the years, we would see small silver fish jumping out of the water, but they would never bite at anything. One year Frank saw a large silver fish, close to 2 ft long jump out of the water. Still we never caught one. This pond is close to Lemon Bay and right across the street from a golf course that went out of business and was turned into a nature trail park. The conservators of the park discovered there are juvenile tarpon in all of the golf course ponds. They are born in these small ponds and stay there for a couple of years before returning to the sea. So that explains what the silver fish are that we had seen for years.
