I started by catching 2 perfect pin fish! One on my flurocarbon leader for tarpon and the other on a stinger rig for kingfish. I saw a BIG king skyrocket not to far away so I began paddle that direction. Not 5 minutes after putting my baits out my tarpon rod was screaming! I thought I had a shark from what I saw of the fish; Soon realizing it was a cobia I got a little bit more serious about landing the fish for a picture. Well the cobia had spun me around a bit and my other line (which I reeled in) was tangled on my paddle. As I realized what happened I saw my other line go tight and 15ft away a triple diget tarpon came flying out of the water with my rig! Thank god it broke the wire or I could have been in real trouble. I landed the cobia Aka dinner which turned out to be 38" my biggest to date.
I began paddling back towards shore noticing Russ was just showing up! I began seeing bonita, mackeral, and even tarpon showing lots of surface activity. I finally hooked a bonita after 15 different lures!
I paddled to shore to meet my dad who brought a cooler for me and Ice. After cleaning the fish I noticed jesse had just showed up after I gave him a call.
By the time I was relaunching Russ was on his way back in with about a 25lb king! SWEET!
Me and Jesse headed back out and long story short after trolling a lizard fish around for 15 minutes I had my smoker king landed.
