“IT CAME TOGETHER while I was in Bali,” professional surfer and tarpon fiend Evan Geiselman says of his Gheenoe Lo Tide 25 purchase. “It’s not the most kitted-out,” he concedes, but the 16-foot boat’s lack of a center console and bait well keeps it light and high in the water. A simple craft with a tiller outboard, the boat rides dry as we prowl Mosquito Lagoon for tarpon, snook, redfish and, ultimately, whatever will eat a fly.
Fresh off a season that took him to the world’s best surf breaks, Geiselman, a New Smyrna Beach, Florida, competitor on the World Surf League’s Challenger Series, is always up for dawn patrol, in search of waves or fish. When the surf is
