tarpon fishing tamarindo

tarpon fishing tamarindo

As soon as I heard about the discovery of a prolific juvenile tarpon fishery along the west coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, I was anxious to experience what the buzz was all about. I made arrangements to visit the epicenter of this fishery in Campeche, Mexico.

Since tarpon behave consistently – be it in Florida, the Caribbean or Central America – I booked my trip in June, a month that would assure me water temperatures over 75-degrees and relatively calm weather. My pre-trip research revealed that most of this fishery is based around grass flats and mangrove canals. Because of this, I planned my visit around the quarter moon neap tides – this would ensure that the low tides would not be so extreme as to drive the fish completely out of the mangroves and into the expansive Gulf of Mexico. Conversely, it would also ensure that the high tides would not flood the mangroves, offering an overabundance of water for these gamesters to seek shelter.

Amongst the guides in Campeche, I chose Raul Castaneda of Tarpon Town Anglers. I got a distinct impression from his website that his fully licensed charter service had a multi-species and multi-tackle orientation. This was comforting for two reasons. First off, it would offer the opportunity to search out and experience the broadest possible facets of a relatively virgin fishery and secondly, it might also predict how open-minded the operating philosophy of his charter service would be, welcoming light-tackle and fly-anglers alike.

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