Jeff Putnam cast well in the Yucatan last week.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

http://www.kiene.com/gallery/albums/tropicalflats/tarpon.sized.jpg

Jeff recently landed this chrome beauty out of Tarpon Cay Lodge in the MX Yucatan.

Photo by his 'significant other', Angela.

[Ryan Miller]

Jeff, a beautiful fish, a great shot- what else is there?

[Leo]

Hey Jeff
Congratulations, good things happen to good guys. Hope you were using the correct leader system.
Leo

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Ryan,

At that location, TCL, there are 'tons' of small Tarpon (5-30#) close to the mangroves in shallow clear water.


Then larger ones like this just off shore a few hundred yards to a mile. They run 40 to 100 pounds and much larger at times.

There are some Snook there too.

They have two other locations.

Between them they have Permit, Bonefish, Baby Tarpon, Snook, Jacks, Barracudas, Ladyfish, Seatrout and Snappers.

We book all these places through Keith Kaneko at 'Angling on the Fly'.

Summer is best.

http://www.kiene.com/gallery/albums/tropicalflats/Isla_Blanca_permit_aaa.jpg

Lee Haskin of "Lee's Fly Specialties" at Isla Blanca, Cancun.


http://www.gurglersonline.com/index.html

[dtp916]

Love the socks.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Bonefish too.

http://www.kiene.com/gallery/albums/tropicalflats/BONE_ISLA_BLANCA.sized.jpg

Isla Blanca, Cancun.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

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Lee Haskin of "Lee's Fly Specialties" with nice Snook from Isla Blanca, Cancun. Lee has helped pioneer this area.

http://www.gurglersonline.com/index.html

[Jeff Putnam]

This was an incredible place to visit. Rolling tarpon at first light is something every fly fisher should witness... and the fight is not to bad either! After hooking this fish it stayed with the school and swam under the boat with 50 other tarpon about the same size. I pulled hard on the fish to break him away from the school and he got a little irritated :evil: . He came flying to the surface and caught some air and battled me until I was about as tired as him. After 20 mins he was photographed and released. What a trip. Caught bones, snook, baby tarpon and barracuda. I'll have photogallery on my site soon with more pics. jp