Kayak Surf Fishing Report 7-21-12

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The pogy schools have been passing by us here at Flagler Beach for about two weeks now. The only problem is there has been only a little tarpon action in them that we can find. Several were caught off the Flagler Beach Pier this week.

Pogy bait school with a fish strike

One of my fishing partners Rick, scouted Flagler Beach for pogies Friday afternoon and came back with some good reports. There was a pile of bait pods and even got to see a few tarpon strikes.

Of course that meant were would be fishing Saturday morning and we planned to meet at the beach at 8:00 AM.

As soon as I rolled up on the beach I could see bait schooled up on the surface. I scouted and glassed the North end but only saw a couple tarpon bust into the pods.

Rick arrived and we decided to go ahead and launch at the aliki condo and see what we could do. Strangely enough, no sooner did we get in the water and the bait  A L L  went down at the same time! It was a checker board of small and medium sized pods all the way down the beach but all at once, they disappeared.

We were able to catch a pod on top here and there and probably saw 8-10 tarpon but it was tough fishing. We got a few baits bit off's by small sharks but did not officially catch a fish other than the bait we snagged.

The highlight of the day was the exit from the surf. There were some good size breaker rolling in and we couldn't resist a little romp in the waves.

T.R. lost his custom rod when he got dumped right at the beach after expertly surfing his yak right past me, upside down in the breakers. A do gooder found it washed up on the beach about 50-60 yds north of the accident and returned it!

No injuries, no losses but no fish!

I am very confident that the action will heat up shortly however.
Larry S.