Ive spent the last few weeks targeting backwater tarpon and its been a blast and a pain in the butt. I started fishing small baits and flukes and the bites were slow to come, i switched to the No Live Bait Needed mini mullet and things changed! All total ive hooked 16 fish with over 40-50 bites and landed 0
The back water/creek/river bite has been good as summer heats up on fish in the 5-50lb range but they have been on point when shaking the bait loose. Getting to the spots is by 1/2 the adventure, generally losing a full blood donors share to the bugs, lots of spiders to the face and just bushwacking to the extreme.
Setup
IRod Kaimana Coastal Inshore spinning rod- 7'6" Heavy
Diawa Fuego 3000
20lb braid, 30 or 40lb top shot