# @soulfishingash on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CeUgM3MA8_O
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63391597-soulfishingash-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/1576ba3df9.jpg
- **Posted:** 2022-06-02T22:53:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ashley Underwood | Lady Angler (@soulfishingash) — https://gondola.cc/soulfishingash

## Caption

I asked y’all what #tbt you would want to see and Tarpon won by far! 

As you read this…keep in mind this was only the second time I had caught a tarpon…my first from the beach and before I learned to fly fish.

I woke up at the crack of dawn to get to the beach for sunrise.  When I got there & saw the seaweed, I felt doomed.  I decided to throw my cast net anyway.  I ended up with a net full of weeds, but also  managed a bucket full of pilchards. 

I put a pilchard on my line along with a weight to get under the seaweed.  I expected a snook, but first cast, I got a huge surprise! My first tarpon from the beach & I was solo with no one in close distance! It jumped like crazy & all I could think was “god please let my knots hold.” I wish I could relive all of it, but it’s mostly a blur because I was in such shock 😅 Lucky for me a jogger passed by once I finally got the tarpon in my hands and was able to snap this shot for me.  I can’t say seaweed hair is my best look, but hey it’s all I got!

I told a lot of my friends this story & was wondering why there was a tarpon eating underneath all of this seaweed.  The answer given to my was that bait was trapped under the weeds which makes since! 

I had seaweed in my hair for days and my apartment was also covered in it! Definitely worth it!

Now to get my first tarpon on fly!!!!! 
.
.
#tbt #tarpon #tarponfishing #bucketlist #surffishing #wadefishing #saltwaterfishing #girlswhofish #ladyangler #beachfishing #catchandrelease #silverking #fishing #pesca #luckygirl #happygirlsaretheprettiest

## Stats

- **Views:** 0
- **Likes:** 0
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 7

## Tags

tarpon, bucketlist, tarponfishing, beachfishing, ladyangler, wadefishing, silverking, tbt, fishing, saltwaterfishing, pesca, girlswhofish, luckygirl, catchandrelease, surffishing, happygirlsaretheprettiest

---
Copyright (c) Gondola