Tough fishing for us today for the tarpon. We were able to load up on bait early in the AM. We ran into the backcountry where we’d been having good luck the last few days. Today unfortunately the ‘red weed’ that has been plauging us off and on was everywhere – making it totally unfishable for our style of fishing. The last few days there has at least been a window where it was not so bad and you could get your fishing in. So we left there and ran back further towards the mainland. We found plenty of fish free jumping and busting off the beaches. We jumped 1 tarpon and then the sharks started to eat us alive. Anyways we caught plenty of them, then had some good tripletail fishing, and finished up around town trying for a tarpon though no luck there but we did get a big jack crevelle and had a possible tarpon bite but not sure what it was. 0 for 1
March 2015
3/18/15 Everglades tarpon fishing heating up
Lots of fish again today. We had a bit of north wind in the morning, followed by it laying out to nothing, followed by some westerly wind in the afternoon, then south when we got close to home on the way in. Couldn’t make up it’s mind. But light breezes and the fish were thick. The tarpon weren’t feeding very actively but were definitely around, we saw plenty of rollers and a few busting and free jumping. We caught a couple along with a nice bull shark fishing fresh mullet. As it did the last couple days after the tide started to really roar in, the weed got very bad and you could not longer really fish the channel. So we finished the day with some triple tail and trout. I’ve heard there were a lot of fish further up off the mainland and much less red weed to deal with, so may venture up there tomorrow. 2 for 2
3/17/15 March Tarpon Fishing in the Everglades
The tarpon showed up in force today. Hundreds of them were rolling in channels all across the backcountry and off the mainland everglades. We were not really able to catch bait this morning and I had a group trip with multiple boats. So we just caught some smaller ladyfish and fished them while tarpon were rolling all around us. We caught a shark then hooked a nice 100 lb tarpon we landed. After that we tried to catch some mullet and got a few but they were very tough with it being slick calm. We fished a bit more with them, however the ‘red weed’ we get in the gulf channels got really bad and you almost couldn’t keep a bait in the water. We finished our day in the gulf catching massive bull sharks, tripletail, and some other critters! Tomorrow we are definitely putting the time in early for the mullet and I expect it should be game on. 1 for 1
