Tarpon Week - Tortola, British Virgin Islands
The month of February has provided excellent fishing. Conditions have varied from hot and dry to windy and rainy. Temperatures are pretty cool at this time of year once the sun goes down. High number of big tarpon have been moving through the channel under the bridge, many of which are feeding aggressively. I have continued to use live bait with great success.
I spent almost every night of the week fishing down on the east end of Tortola and saw high numbers of large tarpon each night. Monday conditions looked good. The current was moving north and a good breeze blew northwest. Visibility was not great but I could see several active fish on both sides of the bridge. A couple tarpon were battled and lost, and at the end of the night all I had landed was a good sized jack.
Tuesday night had similar conditions. The tarpon below were quite active once again. Bait seemed a little more difficult to catch. A friend of mine named Nick joined me Wednesday night and had his first battle with a nice sized tarpon before it spit the hook on its third jump. Very large tarpon started to move in later in the evening but a lack of bait resulted in no tarpon caught. We tried out a few lures with no success.
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