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At Tarpon Town Anglers, we proudly tell that we are the very first native
company operating in town with years of experience in home waters and
helping anglers from the rookiest to the most expert to hook up with these
baby tarpon. Our guides and the whole team are finest eyes on the flats
and will make your experience a joyfull trip. The city of Campeche where
our operations are based, is the cleanest, safest and most comfortable
place for anglers and companions with lots of sightseings, fresh seafood,
margaritas and handicrafts shops to spend the off-fishing evenings. This
first page contains an abstraction of our site but you can visit the links
on the top for detailed information and pictures, or simply click
here to drop me an email and get back to you inmediatly with
helpful hints to build your schedule or trip. Be Welcome any time.
Raul
Castañeda.- Owner/Head Guide
NOTE:
THIS IS OUR LATEST PHONE NUMBER AND WON'T CHANGE AGAIN:
RAUL'S
Cell/Mobile
Dialing from US: 011 521 981 133 2135
Dialing
from Any State in Mexico but Campeche: 045 981 133 2135
Dialing
Campeche: 044 981 133 2135
WHERE,
WHAT AND HOW DO WE FISH?
The Biosphere Reserve of "LosPetenes" is a vast system of mangrove,
wetlands and turtle grass flats that covers the Campeche City's Northeast
coast up to the limits with the State of Yucatan, on the Mayan Peninsula
of Mexico. That enviroment brings constant streams of fresh water from
springs to the salty gulf making it the perfect brackish waters for babies
and juveniles tarpons (5 to 20 pounds), some snooks, snappers, jacks and
barracudas all of these, in the depht range of 1 to 9 ft of water, nothing
deeper that this. Even though it is a good place for light tackle fishing,
most clients are skillfull flyfishermen but either technique is widely
practiced. Our 25 ft mexican panga boats are perfectly outfitted with
flat carpeted floor and casting deck, rod holders, stocked coolers, and
brand new 60 h.p. yamaha and others 40 h.p. yamaha for the 18ft boats.
We spend most of the fishing time onboard becuase the seabottom is soft
and muddy so you can leave your waders at home. We fish for fun and like
to spend a lot of time on the water but depending on tides, weather and
all marine conditions, we can have a ride from 6:00 to 14:00 or some other
times split the day in two shifts (fishing the sunrise and then the sunset)
WHAT
KIND OF ANGLERS SHOULD FISH FOR BABY TARPON?
This is one of the things that makes this fishery
unbelievable. Rookies find it amazing when hooking a first time tarpon
and gets surprised with the strength of a baby (why call them babies??).
They also discover the difference between fresh and saltwater fishing
and the flavor of a 15 minutes fight with a tarpon worth a lifetime of
other fishing species. Advanced anglers really know what they are hunting
for.. yes, hunting. This is what experts call "hunting & fishing"
real game. Patience to Search, locate, and wait for the guide to position
the boat against the nature factors to be able to make an accurated fly
presentation, strip set to hook the bony mouth, bow the king when it jumps...
That is tarpon fishing! Anglers looking for numbers and tons of fish should
not consider the baby tarpon as an achievable target. Anglers from around
the globe have traveled and spent weeks looking after the breaking fins...
here you'll see more than you can imagine but the chances are up to you.
Remember this, Tarpon is the ultimate trophy fish of the flats. Otherwise,
look for deep sea fishing.
THE
BEST TIME OF THE YEAR TO FISH FOR TARPON
Our
Baby Tarpon is resident. This means that are found yearround and actually,
we fish year round. Clients are use to book trips for fall and winter
months but if we have to pick up a period, it would be spring and summer.
Why? simple, rains start late spring and bring all the baitfish out of
the mangroves, steadiest low winds and morning high tides makes it easier
to spot fish but well, weather is globally changing and some fall and
winter months have been dead calm days. The mangrove itself acts like
a barrier and protects its bays from Southeast winds and gives crystal
clear water anytime of the year. It's good to know when fishing for tarpon
in saltwater, you get the best chances when the water is a mirror type,
guides can spot fish from a more distant place and you can cast a fly
line better. You can expect on the slowest day maybe 10 strikes and 2
fish boated. In contrast, when the fishing is good..... bring your finger
cap and a prescripted medicine for muscle sore.
GEARING
UP FOR YOUR ADVENTURE
You don't need to overpack for this trip. It is
simple, when tarpon are feeding, they'll take your ugliest fly. Here
are some suggestions for gear.
FLYFISHING:
8 or 9 wt rods/reel with floating line WF. 9 ft leader (build it yourself
on 3 segments of 40-30-40 pounds) and a 1 foot tippet of 50 pounds test.
The smoother your knots the better fighting action you'll have. At least
100yds of backing. I have personally fished with a 6 wt rod/reel in the
mangrove channels and worked pretty good. FLIES: Any common tarpon fly
no longer than 2 inches and hooks 1/0, 2/0. I'll give you more details
on flies when booking your trip.
SPINNING:
Any
light weight spinning rod with medium to medium-heavy action. Reels should
carry 8 to 12 pounds test line and a built-in leader of mono or fluorocarbon
of 40 pounds. The most used lure is the bucktail jig in different colors
and 1/8 oz. I'll give you more details and pics when booking your trip.
CHOOSE
A TRAVEL PACKAGE & PRICING
When
seriously thinking on comming to Campeche to catch your tarpon, we suggest
you to spend at least 4 days of fishing so you can take the best chances
of tidal movements, moonphase and weather matters. We have set up different
trip configuration thinking on the angler who wants to calculate the total
cost of his trip including ground transfers, extra expenses, etc...this
will surely fit you and your group needs, as we know that our clients
sometimes whant to travel on a budget and some other time do not want
to share neither boat nor room so, click here
to jump to our rates page.
LET
US CONTACT YOU SOON
Thanks to the increasing operations and numerous
american guides who have visited us, we now can offer you several ways
to be in touch with us for bookings, information, sample DVD or brochures.
Obviously, the first option is to contact us directly and we'll respond
within the next 24 hrs or less. For our partners in the United States
please click here to get a listing of the companies
who you can call directly as your convenience.
IN
MEXICO:
Tarpon
Town Anglers
Raul Castañeda
Website: http://www.tarpontown.com
E-mail:
info@tarpontown.com
NOTE: THIS IS OUR LATEST PHONE
NUMBER AND WON'T CHANGE AGAIN:
011 521 (981) 133 2135------ RAUL'S Cell/Mobile
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