Puerto Rico Tarpon

[brushfly]

Fished this past Sunday morning with my 5 yr. old son in the Lagoons around San Juan Airport. Booked an early AM charter with Capt. Karim Chaar of Puerto Rico Magic Tarpon.

Finished the day with Two Tarpon to just over 20 lbs. on 8 lb. test fishing live bait. I understand the fish this time of year are a bit finicky and are hard to take on a fly. Did cast a 10wt. to some rises to no avail but my goal was to get fish on the line with my son on board. We had one other run off that we missed when the hook popped. Radio chatter found we had the best morning of the three or four charters out there that day.

First time fishing with Magic Tarpon and I will book again when back in PR. Karim had plenty of patience with my son who's pretty good on board. The bait and wait thing tested his patience as he's use to casting lures with me for blues and bass during the season.

The lagoon area was better than I've read on this forum as well as others. We saw plenty of bird life, iguanas and such. The water looked pretty clean other than some debris floating in on the incoming tide under the overpasses. Will book again in the future. FYI: http://www.puertoricomagictarpon.com Will post pictures once developed.

Next on the docket: Connetquot Trout then Stripers...it won't be long.

[CaptSuperfly]

a couple of years ago, I stayed at "the conquistador" resort on business and took a morning to go fishing with a guide named Marcus Hanke. He was a pretty good guy. We fished a river mouth outside the resort, and we fished clousers on sinking lines. (this was in open water outside the river, not the lagoons). he said most of the fish would be in the 30lb range.

Saw a few fish roll, but not much on the surface. Still, blind casting we jumped three fish and landed one. MUCH bigger than expected, in the 70-80lbs range.

[brushfly]

Funny I went to the El Conquistador last year and thought about booking Marcus Henke but it was for my wife's 40th and I passed on a solo gig. Brought the fly rod down nontheless and waded around Palomito each day casting about the reef. Picked up some small jacks and such and swear I spooked a small bone or two. Good to know he's an option if we ever get back there.

[brushfly]

Picked up the film. My son will dig seeing himself on reel-time. Think BASS!