i was fighting a 5ft cuda about 45 minutes ago from my rental boat, and the fish was tearing up my 6 weight that the spool poped off. and i did not tie a knot from my backing to the reel. fish got away and so did the reel.... good thing i brought 4 reels out here


o yea here some fish pron
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvITNYYRs6c

and a black tip i caught on my 12wt this morning, it was only 6ft


i know i know i hate you too

Man,

black tip and cudas sound like fun.

as for your conventional tarpon, use a real rod man, none of that sissy stuff!!!!

NICE!

I'm jealous.....Been years since I have been blue water fly fishing.

Wheee Hooo!! That is some good stuff there bro! I got your text this weekend, great to see the images. Those tarpons were not no baby tarpon were they?

you SUCK!

what he said

ha ha ha! Artan there are some jealous folks here in the area LOL
I am amongst them but am holding my tongue....

good stuff Artan

Come on Artan lets get the whole fishing story, more pics, I want to see what i'm missing out on.

Sure sounds like one fun day to me! Congrats.

to lazy to upload pics but heres another catch, if you have not fished key west it is definently a must before you die.

ps if anyone finds a nikon at the bottom of the ocean, there are pics of 200lb jewfish, 40lb king fish, a mess of bonita, 70lb jewfish, lemon shark, bull shark, hammerhead, and a bunch of other fish.

btw i post my pictures here becaues i get along with this side of the forum the most.

That sucks about the camera! Glad that you are tearin' 'em up down there in fantasy land! (The place I want to go)

we love you in the rough fish section too Artan

Where did yall stay down there? Just curious too how does barracuda taste, unless you were keeping it to mount.

Artan is going to bring it home and set up a barracuda rassling tank over on the east side of McKinney down by the old courthouse.

haha the cuda is going to be mounted, it was 4 inches shy of the key west record. it measured to be 53 inches. you can come to my restuarant to see it on display. i stayed at the santa maria, prob one of the best hotels i have ever stayed at. there were only 36 rooms. and it was on its own private beach. every where we fished we chumed. took the fish about 5 to 10 minutes to show up. but when they did. it was on!!! next time i go i wont be staying on key west. but i will be staying at marathon keys. i hear the fishing is even better there.

Thanks, nice job on the cuda. Any tarpon on the fly, thats what I really want.

+1.

What is your restaurant?

hey maybe i'll bring my 53" over and they can make friends???

ha!

did you catch the cuda on fly tackle?

Dave,
Did you catch that 53" 'Cuda one while fishing with Capt. Brandon shuler?
Les

Wow that was a very very nice looking fish. Congrats!

yep...

oops, according to this page:

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishboat/fis...3&browse=Go

it's only 52.75....

darnit