Keith's Yucatan Tackle
Flats Fishing Setups (baby Tarpon, Snook, Bonefish, and Permit)
- Rods:
- Windy Conditions: Sage TCX/Xi3 990-4
- Calm Conditions: Sage TCX/Xi3 890-4
- Reels: Sage 6080 / Ross F1 #4
- Fly Lines: RIO Tarpon Taper / RIO Tropical Clouser
- Leader:
- RIO Saltwater Leader (10' @ 20 pound Test)
- Marco's Leader System: Mason Hard Mono or RIO Alloy-Hard Mono (4' 30# + 3' 25# + 2' 20# + 18" 16# + shock)
- Shock Tippet: Jinkai Mono (50#)
- Rods: Sage Largemouth BASS (w/ 330 grain fly line)
- Reels: Sage 6080
- Fly Lines: Sage Largemouth BASS (330 grain)
- Leader:
- RIO Striped Bass Leader (7' @ 20 pound Test)
- Marco's Leader System: Mason Hard Mono or RIO Alloy-Hard Mono (3' 30# + 2' 25# + 18" 20# + shock)
- Shock Tippet: Jinkai Mono (50#)
- Rods: Sage ONE 1090-4 / Redington Predator 1090-4
- Reels: Sage 6010 or 4210 / Hatch 9 PLUS
- Fly Lines: RIO Tropical Outbound Short Floater (WF-F) and I-Tip (WF-F/I)
- Leader:
- Quigley Twisted Leader (4' 20# w/ Shorb Loop) + shock
- RIO Tarpon Leader (20#)
- Shock Tippet: Jinkai Mono or RIO FlouroFlex (80#)
Recommended Flies
Baby Tarpon / Snook (Isla Blanca, Tarpon Cay Lodge, Campeche, and Isla del Sabalo)
- Subsurface Streamers
- Merriman’s Tarpon Toad II (chartreuse, purple/black) – size small
- San Felipe Special (aka “TCL Special”) – size 1/0
- SeaDucers (red/white, red/yellow, or “cockroach”) – size 1/0
- Puglisi Tarpon Streamer (Everglades SP, brown/tan, orange/yellow) – size 2/0
- Puglisi Everglades SP and/or Back Country (brown/orange or rust/orange) – size 2/0
- Puglisi Campeche Tarpon (white/red, yellow/orange, purple/orange, olive) – size 1/0
- Haskin’s Foxxy Griz Minnow (flesh, olive) – size 1/0
- Topwater Flies
- Puglisi Floating Minnow (Everglades SP, red/yellow) – size 1 to 2/0
- Mini Gurgler (prawn pattern, tan/flesh, white) – size 1/0
- Haskin’s Deep Cover Shrimp (burnt orange)
- Haskin’s, Lee SS Shrimp (light orange) - size 1
- Subsurface Flies
- SeaHabit (sardina color) – size 3/0
- Whistler (red/white) – size 3/0
- Thalken’s Cruiser (anchovy / sardina) – size 2/0
- Haskin’s Flatliner (chartreuse/white) - size 2/0 to 4/0
- Haskin’s Big Mack (bronze mullet, chartreuse/white) – size 2/0 to 4/0
- Topwater Flies
- Saltwater / Bluewater Gurgler (chartreuse/white, red/white) – size 3/0
- Crease flies (black/silver, olive/silver) – 3/0
- Rag Head Crab (tan - size 4 to 6)
- Cathy's Fleeing Crab (tan - size 4 to 6)
- Miheve's Flats Fly (tan - size 4 to 6)
- Gotcha (pearl - size 6 to 8)