Well I have had a couple days off and non-tarpon fishing trips. Though a last couple days I did fish for them it’s been tougher. Two days ago we did try some tarpon fishing and did not have any bites all day, had fresh mullet we tried some backcountry channels where we did not see any fish. Then off the beaches a boat was sitting where I like to fish but someone I knew. I gave him some bait and then he jumped 3 tarpon right next to us and we unfortunately couldn’t get a bite. No matter we still had a great day with big snook, goliath grouper, trout, snapper, sharks, and more. Today my angler really wanted tarpon so we focused on that all day. It was not easy fishing we again had good action but only a couple tarpon bites all day, back to back. Right when the tide started in we caught 1 30 lb fish, and then jumped another off immediatly after, and that was about it for the tarpon action. I saw fish first thing in the morning rolling on the falling tide, but would not feed. Though again we had good action with sharks including a hammerhead, big snook, several goliath grouper, and a cobia. I did try a couple other channels one in the backcountry and one close to home, but did not see any tarpon there. It’s getting tougher though it is almost mid-august. I’ll say it’s been a banner tarpon year all around!
August 2014
8/4/14 August Backcountry Tarpon Fishing Florida
Well stormy weather again lots of rain this AM. We waited and left around 6:30, got lucky and didn’t really get any hard rain all day, just a drizzle here and there. Fishing was decent it was a stiff west wind not great condition but we managed. Caught a nice big snook first thing, lots of small sharks, bent the light rods with trout and snapper, then finished up with 2 out of 4 tarpon. The beach fish were not active but we found a channel in the backcountry in the afternoon that had some fish. Most the action was within a 45 minute window, after that we fished another hour and caught a couple more larger blacktips, but glad we got a couple tarpon.
8/3/14 August Everglades Tarpon Fishing
Conditions changed today and so did the fishing. We had lots of rain and weather around this morning but we managed to sneak through it without getting wet. Caught mullet first thing and ran out off the everglades mainland cape sable area. Set up where I’d been catching fish but not much luck in the morning, just a couple sharks and small goliath grouper. Tried some channels further towards flamingo tarpon fishing in august. No luck there, so we ran back off the cape to catch the start of the falling tide. We hooked two fish though both got away unfortunately and we caught a few more sharks. Things can change in a hurry but we did get on the fish they just wouldn’t cooperate and stay on the hook for us today.
