Well yesterday was my birthday as well as Independence day. It didn’t keep me off the water though! I took my fiance Elizabeth and good friend Mike DePaula just for a couple hours. We fished close by and left early at 6:30 AM. Found several tarpon and we caught 2 out of 3, both big fish in the 80-100 lb range. Great way to start the day for us! Today I had a charter and we went into the backcountry. Lots of rain and weather around though we dodged it for the most part. We tarpon fished first thing, caught some fresh mullet, and it was good. We caught 2 out of 3 tarpon plus a few sharks. One fish of 35 lbs and the other was maybe 60. We did some other things mid day including snappers, trout, and a nice snook. Then we were driven from the snook areas from the rain and bugs, so we tarpon fished more and had some more luck. Caught another 2 out of 3 tarpon, these were bigger fish all in the 80-100 lb range again. So 4 out of 6 tarpon on the day, great fishing for this july!
July 2014
7/3/14 July Florida Keys Tarpon Fishing
Ran back into the everglades again today. Had some mullet from yesterday. We got a little later start, 7:00. Fishing was good though we caught 2 out of 3 tarpon, smaller range size 30-50 lbers. Lots of sharks were keeping us busy too. After that we did some other stuff, trout, snappers, and several snook. Fun day!
7/2/14 July Tarpon Fishing in the Everglades Florida Keys
Today we fished back in the glades. Suppose to be a full day trip but the rain chased us in early. We caught mullet and fished a close by channel. A few shark bites and then a nice size 90 lb tarpon. Great show and crazy jumps. We landed him and set back up. Tide was about ready to quit, a few more shark bites and we moved. Ran further to the west where the tide was already going out now. A little choppy, hard moving tide right into a westerly breeze. The tropical storm off the east coast of florida is sucking the weather that way. We had another tarpon bite there and caught a couple more sharks but the tarpon got away. Then the lightning chased us back towards home. We tried a couple spots without much luck, then in the last spot we were about to head in early and we had a bite! Another nice size 80 lb tarpon. Put on a good show we got him to the boat and then popped him off, right before the rain started to get us again. So 2 for 3 not too shabby.
