I hit the inlet at 5:am and the mullet was everywhere on the incoming tide.  After about 30 minutes of fruitless casting, I get nailed by something pretty big, the first jump tells all, it was a tarpon.  I'm using a brand new Cabo 40 reel with 30# of drag locked down all the way and line is being stripped off with lightening speed.  As a knew there was no chance of stopping it and even if I could have netting and lifting it would only have been a dream, I grabbed the spool and break off my #12 xrap.  As I'm reeling in the slack a young man hooks a jack that was enormous, bravo to him as he gets the jack along side the jettie after quite a battle, I lower my pier net and we can't lift it............wow, so it's 0 for 2 but both of us had a great time.  Now the sun is up and lots of small blue runners a round, this brought the barracuda, now it's 1 for 3 as I land a 40" on a barracuda tube.

wow man that sucks about the not landing but excellent you all got to fight them and very nice cuda! guess ill be hitting up the inlets this weekend sounds like its pretty good 

Sweet!!!

I didn't expect to land the tarpon, way too much fish for the gear being used.  I did the right thing by cutting my losses of only losing a lure and saving all my line, a smaller one I'd played for sure.  The majority of tarpon we catch there are juvies 10-40 lb, a 40 lb is a lot to handle on snook spinning tackle.  Cuda usually are caught on the incoming tide, they like clear calm water, the opposite of what snook like.  Even though the tide had started going out the water was still very clear, we casted towards the beach side.

my brother went to the lake worth pier today and they were catching spanish macks and snappers and he caught what him and another guy there estimated 70-100lb tarpon lol was using dead mullet

A tarpon is on my fishing bucket list. Ever since I was a little kid watching fishing shows and seeing those bad boys jump, iv been dreaming of the day I get a chance to have one on the end of my line.

they are definitely  great fun even the small ones fight good and jump a ton haha

I get nose bleeds on those high piers, fished them maybe 2 or 3 times in the last 10 years, but I love the jettie at Boynton, sadly they made it 2' higher, added a railing, the dangling cable was so much better for fishing.

We have been seeing quite a few bigger tarpon in the area as of late, we have a lack of step reefs here, so the fishing is not quite as good as other areas, but I manage...........:-), like anyplace nothing beats local knowledge and I've been fishing this place 4-5 times a week for 10 years.

@RyneB, you may want to put a permit on your bucket list too, pound for pound as good as it gets.

yeah i seen that at boynton on monday i stopped by there for a few mins and was outgoing and the water was black lol...i didnt go the jetty side though was feeling kinda lazy so i just looked at that side when i was leaving haha