June 2014

Had a couple half days today.  This morning looked like it may of been rained out.  Nasty weather came through the night and again in the morning.  But by 7 AM the rain quit and we ventured to a nearby channel where I’ve been having some luck.  We hooked a nice 80 lb fish right away and caught him.  Then the wind started to lay down and it got a bit nicer out and overcast – looked to be good conditions.  We saw fish roll, but we never had another bite.  I moved for the last hour and we saw fish in that 2nd spot too, but alas no more bites.  But we got 1 at least!  Tonight was tough fishing we tried mullet fishing early with no success, then switched to crabs for the end of the falling tide.  We did have a couple bites, one of which was a permit that got us wrapped up in some old bridge rubble.  But we did not catch anything this evening.  Oh well it happens, back at it tomorrow with a full day trip.  Mullet were very few and far between today we went looking early in the morning and in the afternoon between my trips, we only caught 6 in about 3 hours…  That time of year for crabs and other varietys of ‘dead bait’.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk

Today we ran in the backcountry in the morning.  Did some light tackle stuff, then we came across a nice school of mullet and were able to catch a couple dozen.  I tried some of the backcountry channels and off the mainland shoreline, though not much for tarpon going on there but we did catch several sharks.  We finished up around town again with the last of the outgoing tide, very low water and hot – 90 degrees on my temp gauge!  We had 3 bites and landed one nice fish of 100 lbs that screams off probably close to 300 yards of line.  We gave chase and after he slowed down it wasn’t a long battle, I think the long run in the hot water did him in!  Tomorrow I have a morning half day tarpon trip and an evening trip, hopefully it is good!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk

Dreary looking morning we had lots of weather around for our june islamorada tarpon fishing this AM.  Though it passed north of us and kept it overcast which was fine with me as it’s been very hot lately.  We had good tarpon action first thing, I had caught mullet the afternoon before and we kept some alive which was good because there were not many around this morning when we looked.  We had some cheap shots and a couple good live bait bites, then finally hooked a fish.  We jumped him off and then hooked another one shortly after that we caught of 60 lbs or so.  After that it was pretty much over we had one other cheap shot, and the current got weak and lots of sargasm weed around so we moved.  No tarpon in the next area so we went and did some light tackle stuff for a while.  Tried the tarpon in the backcountry and we got some sharks but no tarpon.  We tried another spot on the way home and it didnt look real good – very green, hot water almost 90 degrees.  But I did see a couple tarpon roll and right before it was time to go we hooked a nice 40 lber that we caught to finish the day.  So 2 for 5 on the day not bad.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk