It's Fun Catching Tarpon off the Beaches
Out of Port Canaveral and Cocoa Beach

It was an extra special day to be able to go out on the boat when my husband Captain Richard and Brent Hancock took the afternoon off to take me fishing and scouting around. Cocoa Beach has some great tarpon fishing when the bait pods show up off the beaches and this day was one of those days! We'd had a difficult time finding bait in the late morning and managed to land a nice tripletail before finding some bait further south and then hooking up with the nice little tarpon.

Cocoa Beach is not home to these large jumping tarpons, but they pass thru during the warmer times of the year and that's when you'll find my husband, Captain Richard fishing for Tarpon off Cocoa Beach.

Live Baiting and Jumping Tarpon

Finding the fish is sometimes as easy as finding their food source and then looking for the tail-tale signs that a great charter captain knows to look for.

Tarpon can be easy to find because they'll roll on the surface showing their dorsal fin, sides and backs as they gulp air and feed. Once you find the tarpon the best way to hook up is with a live bait.

Once hooked up a tarpon will jump... and jump, again and again. This small tarpon pictured took about fifteen minutes to bring and we briefly boated the fish to take a photograph and releasing.

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