Early June fishing

Brothers Scott and Brent Kephart joined me for a few days this past week and hit the weather just right. That allowed us to travel anywhere we wanted to go. The brothers had never been out to the wrecks in the Gulf of Mexico. We had ideal weather on day 2 and headed out there after catching live mullet and pilchards with the castnet. Cobias, Bullsharks, Goliath Groupers, Blacktip Sharks and plenty of Crevalle Jacks and Permit sightings though none landed. Great fishing to say the least. Brent and Scott use all their own tackle and Brent brought his 5 piece Fox Sport Fishing Tarpon Spincast travel rod and used to land Tarpon, Sharks, Goliaths and more. Scott used the 8 foot Sailfish Trek travel rod and was very impressed with the ease of walking large fish around the boat. And the strength. On the other 2 days we landed a total of 6 Tarpon and more Sharks.

Tarpon are on the move in the far back country now with more coming in every day.

Captain Skip Nielsen

another Tarpon for Brent on his
Tarpon Spincast travel rod

Brent brought his Tarpon Spincast 5 piece travel rod
and caught this Goliath Grouper

Brent casted a topwater plug for Crevalle Jacks and
was surprised when this tasty Cobia latched on.
He used the Permit Trek rod

brothers, Brent and Scott Kephart

Bull Shark for Brent and his trek rod

EOS 50 Fox conventional reel spooled with
80lb braid mounted on a Trek XT boa trod
is ideal for catching the big stuff

Goliaths were big fun on the Tarpon Spincast travel rod

lit up Yellow Jack

on the first morning Brent released this Tarpon on his own
Tarpon Spincast travel rod

Scott catching a Bull Shark on the Sailfish Trek Diablo 750 combo

Scott caught 4 Tarpon on this afternoon

Scott used the Trek Boatrod XT fitted with an
EOS 50 Trolling reel for the heavy work

somebody is happy here