Tarpon - virginia question?

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peter odell

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Jun 23, 2023, 3:29:40 PM6/23/23
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Where Have All the Tarpon Gone? – Garden & Gun (gardenandgun.com)

Great article on the changes in the Tarpon migration.  One sentence references them moving north to the Carolinas and Virginia.

Has anyone here caught a tarpon in Virginia?   If so, are there guides that specialize in finding them?

(If you haven't caught a Tarpon on the fly, I'd add to your bucketlist either right before or right after catching a bonefish :-).  )  Incredible.  

brad dreisbach

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Jun 23, 2023, 3:43:55 PM6/23/23
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I heard of a report of a tarpon being hooked up from the surf in ocracoke the yesterday, have not heard anything about virginia though.

Jim C

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Jun 24, 2023, 9:32:40 AM6/24/23
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I have fished for tarpon on the Eastern Shore of Va and can tell you it is not an easy game. Last time out we had 19 roll at the boat throughout the day, but with near zero visibility chances of a hookup were slim to none. The tarpon community here is very tight lipped. A good guide catering to fly fishermen may be hard to find.
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I heard of a report of a tarpon being hooked up from the surf in ocracoke the yesterday, have not heard anything about virginia though.
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Eric Packard

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Jun 24, 2023, 10:58:23 AM6/24/23
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Here’s a FT piece on VA Tarpon. Gives an overview. 

It is a tight lipped group that hunt them. 

Eric Packard
Artist (I fish sometimes, too) 

On Jun 24, 2023, at 9:32 AM, Jim C <jim...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have fished for tarpon on the Eastern Shore of Va and can tell you it is not an easy game. Last time out we had 19 roll at the boat throughout the day, but with near zero visibility chances of a hookup were slim to none. The tarpon community here is very tight lipped. A good guide catering to fly fishermen may be hard to find.

Gregg Rockett

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Jun 24, 2023, 9:13:23 PM6/24/23
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maybe reach out to C Trow at Mossy Creek - hint, hint.....

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HermanyorFlorida

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Jul 29, 2023, 9:18:48 AM7/29/23
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Apologies for the threadomancy, but I was talking about this while out fishing with a friend a few weeks ago and am glad to see the topic here.  

I found Zach Pfignst who guides out of Cape Charles when I was recruiting speakers for PRSC, and he does target them: https://marshmadnesscharters.com/.  

There was also a conventional tackle guide from that area who spoke at the Lefty Kreh Tie fest back in 2020.  He was very upfront that he would put you on the fish but couldn't help with any fly fishing stuff.  At the time he said it was him and one other guide offering trips and they politely didn't share info with each other.  

Sean Steele

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Jul 29, 2023, 9:50:41 AM7/29/23
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Eric Packard’s IG game is solid, by the way. Follow him: https://instagram.com/ericp132?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

-Sean

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Eric Packard

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Jul 29, 2023, 4:00:37 PM7/29/23
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🙂


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HermanyorFlorida

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Jul 31, 2023, 2:37:51 PM7/31/23
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Amusingly, both articles close with the same quote.  It seems the madness of throwing bugs at cobia near the Bay Bridge Tunnel might be less grueling.
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