I no longer believe getting a strike or catching a fish on the first cast is the kiss of death.  Made my first cast at 4:am, snook #1 then on the next 3 casts 3 more snook landed.  A lull in the action for about 5 casts and it started up again, 6 more caught, from 7 to about 12#.  No tarpon today.  Tide changed and that's all she wrote.  

Awesome time!

Way to break the curse snook! Good job

Seldom does lightning strike 2 days in a row but I'm getting ready to leave no later 3 am to fish for them.  Yesterday I was using a Bomber long A broke back, IMO too big a lure for tarpon so I'm downsizing and will be fishing a jerk shad and bucktails.  I prefer a single hook especially for a rock hard jaw like a tarpon.

My friend caught a 3lber (largemouth) on his first cast yesterday, still dark out and we hadn't even put the kayaks in the water. He tossed the spook out and the fish hit it before he even started his retrieve. We crushed them that day!

As I said lightening seldom strikes 2 days in a row.  The very next day bait was busting a 1/4 mile in each direction, fish up to and over 50# just pounding them, it was Xmas, July 4 and New Years eve rolled into one.  45 minutes of casting didn't produce a strike, when fish are gorging on bait your piece of plastic has little chance.  If I haven't seen this at least 100 times it hasn't been once, as common as brushing my teeth every morning.  Next couple of days no bait showed up which means no fish, I haven't had a strike since my original post.

Could have I caught fish, absolutely.  Catch a mullet, clip a fin and wait about 60 seconds, but that ain't what I call fishing, 

As I said lightening seldom strikes 2 days in a row.  The very next day bait was busting a 1/4 mile in each direction, fish up to and over 50# just pounding them, it was Xmas, July 4 and New Years eve rolled into one.  45 minutes of casting didn't produce a strike, when fish are gorging on bait your piece of plastic has little chance.  If I haven't seen this at least 100 times it hasn't been once, as common as brushing my teeth every morning.  Next couple of days no bait showed up which means no fish, I haven't had a strike since my original post.

Could have I caught fish, absolutely.  Catch a mullet, clip a fin and wait about 60 seconds, but that ain't what I call fishing, 

You must have some serious willpower. I would have had a 10" mullet on a circle hook plopped right in the middle of the chaos.

You must have some serious willpower. I would have had a 10" mullet on a circle hook plopped right in the middle of the chaos.

Despite the fact that I mostly fish saltwater and most saltwater fisherman I know keep their catch, I'm a die hard artificial user and release the majority of my fish.  Using bait to catch fish isn't real sporting to me, I can't say how often I'm offshore and my partner is using cut bait for kings and I'm casting or hard metal jigging.  "It ain't the kill, it's the thrill".

Funny how one minute there striking then there gone. The tide signals them.

Hmmmm. Went to Ireland pike fishing a few years ago. My buddy caught a pike first cast, had to wait 3 days for the next pike. The mojo is strong with that curse. 

I've caught 2 snook since the first post, been strikeless for almost a week with good tide conditions some of the time.  Either there is too much bait or not enough, people seem to think you get a fish a cast in saltwater.............lol, yeh right.