Segment 2, June 3rd, 2023

Tarpon seaon is currently in full-effect.  Travelers are coming into Jesse Brown’s preparing for fly fishing trips to places like Mexico, Bahamas, & Cuba for the tarpon.  While tarpon fisheries in those countries are great. there is none better than Florida.

Captain Dave Chouinard returns to the Carolina Outdoors with a report on why this time of year is so hard on marriages, job performance, & time spent with families.  The reason?  It’s Tarpon season & pursuit of the Silver Kings become an addiction.

Chouinard is like a fly fishing poet talking about the skiffs that provide a stealthiness, the beauty of casting a fly rod, & why these amazing fish are traveling through this part of the world.  He also speaks on the pressure that has occurred in some places.

Show highlights:

• Why the specially made boats, called skiffs, are used?
  
• How the sport is addictive due to the size, access, & acrobatics of these one-hundred pound, thirty-year old fish.
  
• The intelligence of the tarpon is due to their 113-million year history in the world & they utilize an air-bladder
  
• This is the mating season for the tarpon & they congregate during this time of year
  
• There is a one-hundred pound, skin mounted tarpon from the keys in the fly shops in Charlotte, Jesse Brown’s.
  

In the spirit of the conversation, the host put on a pair of Flats Sneakers from Simms during the interview.  Producer of the show, TJ Boggs, put on a Patagonia Sun Shirt from Jesse Brown’s