Poonfroggin

3 comments / Posted on August 29, 2022 / by Louis Cahill

It's already plenty warm by 6:00 AM. The hot pink band hugging the horizon and lighting up the water foreshadows the brain-baking heat that will be here any minute. It's going to be another brutally calm day in the Florida Keys. We're poling quietly down the...

Sunday Classic / Dicky’s Tarpon Silencer

No comments yet / Posted on May 26, 2019 / by Louis Cahill

WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD FLY? On dead calm days in the Florida Keys the silver king can be afraid of his on shadow. I've seen plenty of big tarpon vanish at the sound of the fly landing on the water. As a flats guide,...

Sunday Classic / Bruce Chard’s Palolo Worm

2 comments / Posted on April 28, 2019 / by Louis Cahill

THE PALOLO WORM HATCH IN THE FLORIDA KEYS TRULY MUST BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED. Tarpon go completely crazy when these bright red worms pour out of the sand by the millions. The fish gorge themselves on worms and quite a few of those worms are...

Sunday Classic / Bruce Chard’s A.M. Express, A Great Fly For Baby Tarpon

No comments yet / Posted on September 16, 2018 / by Louis Cahill

CATCHING BABY TARPON IS ABOUT AS FUN AS THE LAW ALLOWS. Even a baby tarpon is a hell of a fish. These little guys are all fight and haven't learned all the tricks of the grown ups. A thirty pound tarpon offers all the excitement of...

Sunday Classic / Gary Merriman Ties The Tarpon Toad

No comments yet / Posted on April 9, 2017 / by Louis Cahill

I'VE KNOWN GARY MERRIMAN FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS AND ONLY FOUND OUT ABOUT A YEAR AGO THAT HE WAS THE CREATOR OF THE TARPON TOAD. ...