{"id":690,"date":"2011-05-28T01:39:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T01:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/?p=690"},"modified":"2025-06-08T16:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:17:18","slug":"690","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 5\/27\/11 &#8230; tarpon not biting much at Boca Grande today"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-694\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-19-11-125-lb-tarpon1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-694\" title=\"Tarpon\" src=\"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-19-11-125-lb-tarpon1-e1306547326708.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-19-11-125-lb-tarpon1-e1306547326708.webp 1080w, https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-19-11-125-lb-tarpon1-e1306547326708-768x531.webp 768w, https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-19-11-125-lb-tarpon1-e1306547326708-300x208.webp 300w, https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-19-11-125-lb-tarpon1-e1306547326708-1024x708.webp 1024w, https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-19-11-125-lb-tarpon1-e1306547326708-690x477.webp 690w, https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-19-11-125-lb-tarpon1-e1306547326708-980x678.webp 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tarpon, Boca Grande Pass.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We left Sanibel Island\u00a0at 6:45\u00a0and passed by Captiva Island on the way to Boca Grande.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived at Boca Grande around\u00a07:15 to see that the tarpon bite was not heavy.<\/p>\n<p>There were only a few fish caught this morning and we were one of few boats to hook up with a tarpon.<\/p>\n<p>After fishing for an hour, we got a bite and battled a tarpon (weighed\u00a0about 140 lbs or so) for 55 minutes.  This fish was an athlete for sure.  Here is a\u00a0video of the tarpon trying to shake the hook:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pYFQLaGOj0w\">Tarpon at Boca Grande Pass<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be in Boca Grande Pass for the next few days.   I hope the bite improves!<\/p>\n<p>Fair winds and following seas,<\/p>\n<p>Captain Joey Burnsed ~ call 239-472-8658 or email captjoefred@gmail to book a charter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left Sanibel Island\u00a0at 6:45\u00a0and passed by Captiva Island on the way to Boca Grande. We arrived at Boca Grande around\u00a07:15 to see that the tarpon bite was not heavy. There were only a few fish caught this morning and we were one of few boats to hook up with a tarpon. After fishing for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20611,"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/20611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}