EP 306: How To Catch Big Tarpon On Cut Bait
Salt Strong Fishing
Joe Simonds
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we go LIVE during a real tarpon fight (with a 150-pound tarpon) to share exactly how we use cut-bait (like cut mullet) to catch big tarpon.
Find out the best times of year to catch tarpon, best tarpon spots, best baits, best tarpon rigs, and more.
Enjoy getting to hear Joe get absolutely whooped by a big tarpon!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This fish and it's in my soul. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Salt Strong Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | Disrupting fishing entertainment as you know it. |
| 0:11.0 | Prepare to laugh. |
| 0:12.0 | Prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way. |
| 0:17.0 | And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing. |
| 0:20.0 | Here's your host, Joe Simons. |
| 0:23.0 | Like Diamonds. |
| 0:26.0 | What's up? |
| 0:27.0 | That's what we did. |
| 0:29.0 | We are all with a tarp pen. |
| 0:31.0 | Sit here with Captain Mark Holland. |
| 0:34.0 | With no voice today. |
| 0:37.0 | It's a pretty big boy here. |
| 0:39.0 | Tell him what we're doing, Mark. |
| 0:41.0 | So we've been trying to catch our tarp pen on the live bait this morning |
| 0:45.0 | and we couldn't make it work. |
| 0:47.0 | So we came in and been soaking some dead baits around town |
| 0:50.0 | and we just got hooked up. |
| 0:51.0 | And we got a proper size tarp pen here on the fresh dead mullet |
| 0:56.0 | and we're getting ready to put Joe on the bow |
| 0:58.0 | and we're going to go chase this fish around. |
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