Tarpon & Snooks Spinning Tackle Trip

Rates

2 Hours

• One Person: $260
• Two People: $275
• Three People: $310
• Four People: $335
• Five People: $365

4 Hours

• One Person: $350
• Two People: $375
• Three People: $400
• Four People: $450
• Five People: $500

6 Hours

• One Person: $475
• Two People: $500
• Three People: $525
• Four People: $575
• Five People: $625

8 Hours

• One Person: $650
• Two People: $675
• Three People: $700
• Four People: $750
• Five People: $800

ASK FOR SIX PEOPLE RATE
Request our boat with shade for $50.00

Boat Fleet

• Ranger BayBoat 23FT Tournament Edition

• Maxium Capacity: 6 anglers

• Action Craft 19ft - Stinky Fingers

• Maximun Capacity: 4 anglers

• Flats & Bay 18Ft - Tarpon Hunter

• Maximun Capacity: 4 Anglers

• Hydra Sport 20ft BayBoat

• Maximun Capacity: 5 anglers

• Bay Rider 23FT (With Shade)

• Maximun Capacity: 6 anglers

About

Savage – Relentless – Acrobatic – Insane

These are words that people use to describe the strike and ensuing battle with a Tarpon. Because of its strength, stamina, and fighting ability, the Tarpon is one of the World’s premier game fish. They also have such large numbers as they are not a target of commercial fisherman fishing in Puerto Rico, so there is no fear of hurting the species by catch and release fly fishing.

Tarpon fishing in Puerto Rico can be incredibly frustrating at times, but many people say that if they could only fish one species for the rest of their life it would be a Tarpon.

All Fishing charter trips include a captain, live bait before the trip, beverages, rods/reels, and bait.

Also, ask for our Fly Fishing charter! We currently carry NEW Sage X 8wt & 9wt, & TFO AXIOM II-X 10Wt with TIBOR reels. Come to test it out!

Live bait tarpon fishing charter in Puerto Rico!

We specialize in live bait tarpon fishing in Puerto Rico, and use perch, pinfish, greenbacks, and herring. The basic live bait technique is to anchor our boat and free line a lively bait to areas we know hold tarpon.

Sometimes the bait is weighted to get it near the bottom. Weights vary with the speed of the tidal current. Heavy weights can cause hooks to pull out. To correct this we use light copper wire to attach the weights to our line so they will easily drop off and not be a hazard when we fight the tarpon.

Sometimes a small piece of Styrofoam is rigged as a breakaway float to suspend the bait. Tarpon are powerful and have hard rough mouths, sharp gill plates, and abrasive scales. For tarpon fishing leaders we use about 5 to 8 feet of heavy monofilament or fluorocarbon line from 50 to 80 LB test.

Tarpon fishing hooks will vary with the size of the bait and hook brand. A 4/0 to an 11/0 circle hook is what we like best. It's important to rig the live baits in the most natural way possible. For tarpon fishing with live bait, you should hook a perch in the mouth; greenbacks, greenies, and mullet are hooked through the mouth either vertically or horizontally.

An experienced tarpon guide will use various sizes and types of bait for the conditions. As you can see, there are lots of variables to consider as well as other fish to catch while you're fishing for tarpon. When we are tarpon fishing, we like to keep a bait on the bottom and one or two baits free lined at different depths. For the best results, we will use 3 or 4 different baits at the same time until we find what the tarpon prefer.

If the tarpon don't bite, change your bait, change your rigging, change your leader or change the depth you are fishing. If that doesn't work move to a new location.

Tarpon Fishing With Artificial Baits

Although we specialize in live bait tarpon fishing in Puerto Rico, we have had good luck with big top water baits and minnow imitations as well as soft plastic baits.

For top water tarpon fishing, casting big chuggers and sliders like the Zara Spook can be productive. For chuggers and poppers, we like to use a "chug and pause" presentation. For sliders, you can't beat "walking the dog". You can fish big minnow baits with a fast retrieve and add a pause or stall to make the retrieve more erratic. It is always a good idea to try different speeds of retrieve depending on current conditions.

Some of the best artificial baits for tarpon fishing in Puerto Rico are big soft plastics that imitate bait fish, eels and sea worms. These can be weighted to fish deep and are versatile substitutes for live bait. We fish these baits slow and like to free line, dead drift them deep or rig them on jigs just like live bait. Casting across the current can also be effective.

Tarpon Fishing Rods and Line

For tarpon fishing and smaller tarpon, you could drop down to 12 or 15 LB tackle depending on the size of the tarpon. We have found Ande or Trileen Big Game monofilament line to be good choices for cost and performance.

Mamoi Hi-Catch or Diamond Premium is more expensive and is a good line as well as good leader material. You should also have some Fluorocarbon leader for the tough bite.

We also use braided line and like Power Pro 30-50 pound. Our reel of choice would be a Shimano Zaragosa. Penn, Shimano, Diawa and Fin-nor all make good 30 LB spinning reels for tarpon fishing. Shimano, Diawa and Penn make decent rods. We like a 7-foot rod.