6/8 FL Panhandle

Fished with my good friend Bucky today out along the beach looking for some tarpon. Before today most of the fish I had been seeing were "wrong way fish" headed East, but today most of them were coming from the East. We saw about 30 tarpon throughout the morning, but got no good shots. Also saw a big bull shark probably 8 feet in length that swam up to the boat and circled a couple of times.

Once the winds picked up from the South we ran into the bay and did some redfishing while we kept our fingers crossed that the wind on the beach would die down before we lost all of our sunlight. We found some reds up in the skinny water along the lee shoreline and Bucky poled me onto a nice tailing fish that I caught on a new fly pattern I was testing out. Unfortunately the winds didn't die down and we eventually ran back to the launch after a long 12 hr day on the water.

The red and its release: