Sorry for the lack of updates been crazy busy! The mullet in islamorada have been a little tough to come by the last few days. Even the commercial guys have had a tough time and did not show up with live bait a couple mornings. Today we were able to get them pretty good luckily and it paid off. We caught one nice 75 lb tarpon by channel 5 bridge on a live mullet. A lot of fish on the oceanside but did not see any other boats hook up. Later we moved by channel 2 and caught one there on a dead mullet, a big 110 lb fish. Again a TON of fish rolling for almost 2 hours, saw one every 20 seconds probably. They were tough to get to bite but we hung strong and got them. We also caught a few sharks including a big black tip plus a couple of really big jacks. The may islamorada tarpon fishing should pick up and I think crabs will become the bait of choice soon! The last few days the fishing has been OK we did have a tarpon on yesterday though we lost him and caught plenty of other things, the day before we fished the gulf and had a good day. We did catch fish the last few nights but its only been a bite or two a night. I’m sure if you stay later past sunset the bite will be better on crabs and the tide should fall till late.
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
305-747-6903
rick@islamoradatarpon.com
