Pretty good fishing with a twist, way too many twist...

**Captain Michael Buffington** · 06-29-2008 09:53 PM

This morning the charter arrived more than a little late which sucks for them because crack of daylight it's nuts in there and makes it harder for me because bait is a problem after daylight most times and we miss the blitz that seldom last very long. Then the real fishin' starts.

They were extremely nice group of doctors from houston, Tx. There was a miscommunication with Omar when they booked the charter. It happens, off we go. Bait was easy, but the fish were very sluggish at the lagoon. Went to a small lagoon in a neighborhood that is a good midmorning producer. We got three bites and lost all three to nonbowage. Went to la sopa that gave us that fish yesterday and anchored up and missed afew on threadfins and finally that avet went off with the wad of greenies on the 7/0, ended up not being what I was hoping for but 35 or 40lb tarpon aint bad. That was this morning...

This afternoon I had more lawyers whom Monty from last week talked into fishing. We started in the lagoon. I eased out and turned it off. I saw 3 bust and set up a drift on a major corner to a steep drop-off. We had steady bites on every drift for an hour landing 3 out of 7. The only one who could concentrate on what she was doing and not that prehistoris silver missile flying out of the water shaking its head so hard you hear his gills rattling was Jerry wife Sherry. She was one serious fisherwoman, she was intense

They were having a good time though

I made two more drifts with one boil and switched to slow trolling greenies along the drop-offs in search of something bigger. Got right over a really dramatic hole and along one side I bumped it in neutral as all four of those greenies were skittering on the surface and told them to watch...Freakin hole where Mr. Greenie used to be

like somebody dropped a washing machine out of a helicopter

That sucker greyhounded 200 yards

They are cool fish...The angler Jim had a hard time staying calm, he would follow instructions as long as I was talking about that one thing but if I switched to telling him how to turn the fish from not just turning the handle the whole time, he'd start crankin' that coffee grinder like nobodys business! I am not talking bad about the guy, just letting you know how we lost the fish. He was at the boat, cameras were on, Jim gave him a little slack....snap, crinkle,pop. I hate spinning reels

We did get 3 more bites from medium sized fish and Sherry was not on the rod, lol, so we went 1 for three with Jerry getting his first ever tarpon. Nice trip and good people, but coffee grinders suck

Mike