Fishing trip in Guadeloupe: Story of our 4th day of fishing

You wish discover fishing in Guadeloupe ? We we wanted to share with you our experience during this fourth day of our fishing trip in Guadeloupe with Mr and Mrs Fish

A day under the sign of streetfishing

For this 4th day of our fishing trip in Guadeloupe, we meet Paul and Mathilde from Mr and Mrs Fish for a morning meeting at 6 a.m. on one of their favorite streetfishing spot.

We begin the search for predators around the wooden pontoons that border this bay. However, access is quite restricted. But very quickly in the structures located in our feet, we manage to get out of the pufferfishs who are happy to cut our soft lures and mark us the casting jigs!

Then we will chain two small mangrove snappers on the same kind of pits. The sizes remain modest but it's fun!

Change of atmosphere in search of baby tarpons

These few fish caught, Paul and Mathilde decide to change spot in order to decide on the baby tarpons hiding in the Guadeloupe mangroves. It's a canal fishing that resembles those that can be found in mainland France.

At the start we only see a few tilapias which shun our lures. They have a very passive, even lethargic, behavior.
Quickly, Paul brings out two tarpon babys in two throws in cramped bay bottoms.

Matthieu will also release two tarpons in quick succession with the OSP Dolive Stick 3″5. This new spot is huge, the fish seem to be outside and they respond quite well to our lures!

However, the touch ends up coming to a halt! Suddenly, change of program.

Street session in the port

We head for a new spot on the edge of a professional fishing port. We see tarpons in activity on the surface in the middle of the boats. I throw my stickbait Jabbers Honcho pencil 95, and I hit a magnificent tarpon which unhooks on the second jump! Bad luck!!!

We continue prospecting, between the boats, and it is Matthieu's turn to have his lure sucked in: OSP DoliveStick 3″5. The tarpon puts up a good fight and that's when a metered barracuda comes to stick to the tarpon in order to be able to taste it. Luckily Matthieu manages to get him out of the water in time for a video session!

Given the moment of frenzy, we do not take a picture of this tarpon and continue to fish. I will have a big attack on the surface on my popper, but the fish unhooks again! It's really difficult to bite these fish in topwater because of their bony jaws.
We shift a little outside the harbour, we see a school of tarpon basking in the sun like black bass. Matthieu launches his OSP Dolive Stick and a little intercepts it! Crazy fight and dry!

We notice that the group of tarpons has barely shifted, Mathilde launches and hooks a very beautiful tarpon! The video below:

Change of spot and still madness

The morning was rich in emotions, so we will eat at the local fast food to eat some specialties!

Mr and Mrs Fish leave us after the meal, “work requires”! We continue Matthieu and I to look for the tarpons in the canals of the city. We find an area where the fish are all grouped together and there the bites and the catches are no longer counted, we stop counting at 300 bites! It's just madness!

We will take the opportunity to test all of our equipment and lures in order to unseal any flagship technique.

The fish will follow one another thanks in particular to the Dolive Stick 3″5 in unleaded Texan, alternating jerk and long pauses. We noticed that the slight movements of the tide greatly influenced the activity of the baby tarpons and their attacks. So don't hesitate to vary the lures and the animations when the bites suddenly stop!

Indeed, the Honcho Pencil later becomes our key to triggering most fish as well as the classic Rudra SP from OSP in gold color.

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Useful links to find out more about our fishing trip in Guadeloupe:

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