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Tarpon Fishing Tampa & Boca Grande- June 2011 PTTS-WPTTS!
Team Evinrude/Andros Takes 1st Place In week #4 of PTTS & Team Andros Places 3rd In WPTTS Week # 3!
PTTS tarpon report from Boca Grande: Ok, so week 3 is filled with tons of events for Team Evinrude/Andros. First off, it's a double header as the PTTS open division is fishing from 7-10 and 11-2. These will count as PTTS events 3 and 4. Not only do we have a tarpon tournament double header, but we have the WPTTS lady anglers ready to battle on Saturday and put a tarpon boat side. I was also informed that I would have a visitor from Wisconsin. This visitor was, Dave Perry, who is part of the marketing department for Evinrude. Once I found out Evinrude was coming to town to do some filming of the tournament and boat, I thought... great no pressure, wait, now we have to perform! Well perform we did for Dave, who by the way is a great spectator and film maker.
The women's tournament, WPTTS, started off hot, within the first 2 minutes we had a tarpon hooked up. Unfortunately, this fish came unbuttoned before we were able to get a leader touch. We were unable to get another tarpon hooked up before time was called. The counter part to our team, the Lady Andros girls had a better day as they landed a tarpon large enough to capture 3rd place. The bite was slow, so it was important to hook and land every fish on every opportunity.



The weekend was the start of the Pro Tarpon tournament Series in Boca Grande. Andros Boats and Evinrude Motors sponsors Two tarpon divisions teams. Both teams are captained by Tampa Bay's Brian Bower. The WPTTS crew consist of women anglers Joyce Younce, Liz Vaulter and Lindsay Rosato with Matt Bower is acting as mate.
While the Evinrude/Andros PTTS team is crewed by anglers Steve Brownlee, Matt Bower and Lindsay Rosato.
Week 1 of the PTTS - Tarpon report by Brian Bower of Team Evinrude/Andros.
Boca Grande Pass was pretty nasty but finally cleared up enough for the tarpon to come back in. They were here good Friday as one of my Lady Anglers ( Lindsay Rosato) boated a tarpon in the 175lb range. Saturday the day of the tournament was beautiful and fish were plentiful. We only had 3 hook ups and lost all 3. I guess we weren't meant to leader any during the tournament. After the tournament, we went back out and jump a few more landing 2. Nothing huge, although we did jump one about 200lbs that was short lived.
Sunday for the open division, the tarpon were more scattered and moving. There wasn't the same amount of fish as Saturday during the tournament. We did manage to get one leader release, but it wasn't large enough to take to the scales. The bite was much slower Sunday during the tournament. After the tournament, we went back out for some more practice and jumped a 215lb plus tarpon on the second drop. Fought the fish and got a leader touch on it for practice. We then were getting ready to have it boat side when the man in the grey suit showed up for dinner. We free lined the spool and let the tarpon go. The line broke while the tarpon and bull shark danced on top of the water for a moment. The tarpon got hit by the shark, but I think it got away. We never saw the red bath so I would say she was good.

