Monday I had a writer mark Taylor from the Roanoke Times in Virginia.  Bill Aucoin with the better business bureau had scheduled to meet up at a Beach access at 7 in the morning.  He wanted to write a story for people that are coming down how the can catch fish by foot. I walked out on the beach and checked the beach and it was raining pretty good had a couple lightning bolts hit pretty close so I knew that was out.  We went to a locating and right off the bat I got him on his first snook and had some small tarpon rolling around.  We then went to another location and caught a handful of 18-20 inch trout with it still raining. We moved down the beach and I figured we'd stop in Gulf to Bay Tackle on St.Pete Beach and talk to my buddy Joe "the owner".  He had some good story's to say and give him a feel for a local tackle shop.  We stopped at one more location and a guy their had been broke off already with hand size pin fish.  We caught a few smaller grouper and he got broke a few times.. Tried to make the best of a rainy day situation.  With the east wind and a rainy day I knew the tarpon would be loving life on the beach.  So as soon as I got home my buddy showed up and said lets get a tarpon.  We all jumped on the Wango Tango out Of John's Pass my buddy Captain Danny Condron is running and in now time we found a nice school of milling tarpon and It was game on.  I got him to eat a thread fin under a cork.  We fished a couple other pods of fish but they were all southbound fish and moving and couldn't get another one to eat... Not bad for a couple hours on the beach..I landed the first on our beach this season probably a  70-80Lb fish that looked like he had been hit by a shark already..