Fly fishing for Tarpon in St. Petersburg and Tampa Bay, west coast fly fisherman and marine biologist Derek Wiley and Captain Russ Shirley battle with Derek’s first Tarpon of fly. As you will see in this video, most times when fishing for Tarpon, you can’t easily judge the size at first. Once this Tarpon jumps, which this Tarpon only did once, we could see it was a lot larger than what it looked like when spotted and thrown to. Yes, it would have been nice to have a good jumper for your first fish, and since it wasn’t, this Tarpon saved it’s fight for the long game, which can be the toughest fight.
