On July 1, 2020, North Carolina guide Seth Vernon poled his skiff to within casting distance of a string of tarpon, just off the beach in an undisclosed location along the southern shores of North Carolina. His client, a Greensboro angler named Ben Klein, cast a purple tarpon mouse fly to the lead fish. The tarpon ate the fly, and promptly spat it out. Unfazed, Klein backcast the fly free of the water and fired again. This time the second tarpon in the string sucked in the fly, and after a
