Naples fishing guide update..."roadside" Tarpon fishing 11/27/09

It has been a LONG time since I posted a Naples fishing guide update, so here goes! The beach fishing ended a couple weeks ago, and now the Tarpon fishing on the Tamiami Canals has started up to fill the void. A trip a couple days ago with repeat customer John Goodheart produced a little Tarpon, and a very hard missed grab. Today I had out California angler Craig Fanning, who has done very little fishing in Florida. I was pleased that despite the very cold weather this morning, he was able to stick his first Tarpon (pictured) while fly fishing with one of my rabbit strip patterns. On both trips we saw fish in the 30-50lb class...I can't wait till somebody hooks one of those guys! Fishing will continue to improve and should last through most or all of April.