Tackle setup · Intermediate
Heavy spinning outfit for bridge tarpon
Tarpon at Channel Two, Channel Five and Long Key, drifting live crabs and mullet in the current.
Charter a boatBring your own boatShore, bridge, kayak & wade
The outfit
- Rod
- 7 ft heavy spinning rod
- Reel
- 8000–10000 spinning reel
- Line
- 50–65 lb braid
- Leader
- 4–6 ft of 60–80 lb fluorocarbon
- Hooks
- 6/0–8/0 in-line (non-offset) circle hooks
- Weights
- A small float to keep a crab near the surface; 1–3 oz egg sinker for a bottom-fished mullet
- A 30–50 lb conventional outfit does the same job and is easier on the arms from a pier.
- Tarpon over 40 inches must stay in the water: fight them from the lowest point you can reach safely.
