Great picture and story! You may be human after all.

40 to 50 lb range

I think more than that. I’ve seen 40 lb chinooks and they were a lot smaller than that fish.

Tarpon weights are deceiving,,,

They gulp air for their swim bladder

Baby tarpon/juvenile top out at about 70lbs


How tall were you?? What was your waist?? In inches

Be honest lol


It’s a beauty!! I can only imagine it was an epic battle

I’m sorry Beaver….id really just be making a poor guess. Going by the picture I’d say it was monster size to you youngsters. ANY size tarpon is incredible fun and and spectacularly aerial.

My biggest is 164lbs but I’ve had clients boat bigger. The biggest I know of out of the Rio Colorado is/was 214lbs. I can’t say if that is the world line record. Word was there were true giants off the African west coast nation of Gibbon (sp) but due to violence over there I never made the trip.

I’ve fished a lot of species on this planet including granders off the Great Barrier Reef and if I had to pick one final fishing trip it would be for Tarpon.

Osky

Osky

Have you read “lords of the fly”?

It’s about big tarpon fishing, alittle blue marlin,,,,,quest for the world record in the 80’s

Great book!!

Sounds like you’ve lived it??

I don’t remember what I weighed back then. I was average weight and height for a kid 2 months shy of his 11th birthday. My brother Ken was smallish for his age of 14 years.

120lb Tarpon looks like it's as big as a horse.



An 85lbr looks a lot bigger than that one.




It's kinda like 30lb coons. Everyone has a 30lbr till you break out the scales.

People who've caught fish in 220's know that fish are not very dense.

No I’ve not read it, tho now I’m going to find it.
My best friends father was very well to do and took us two teens along on a lot of adventures. Formed a big part of my life. For all the fish I’ve hunted, there are a ton more I will not get around to in this life, and I envy those who get after them.

Osky