Got out with return customer Darrel Brock today, the first of his 3 days fishing with me. We caught bait yesterday afternoon good so I had that going for us. We left early and got out into the backcountry, the ride wasn’t too bad though it was windy with a hard east breeze. Once we got back there it was nice the first couple hours, then got a little rough but not really too bad for a larger boat like mine. We found the tarpon right off the bat though they didn’t really bite at first. We moved several times and tried a few different tactics, then after a couple hours we finally jumped one. After that we ended up getting 3 more bites, catching a 30 lber, a 60 lber, and 100 lber, along with about 25 blacktip sharks! It was good action and nice to see the fish biting a little bit. Funny as soon as it got a little nastier the fish started biting! The ride home was a little rougher, but really only bad for a little bit. I think tomorrow we may try the same plan of attack, sunday we have a half day so will definitely be fishing local then. Hopefully they cooperate! 3 for 4
April 2017
4/20/17 April Tarpon Fishing Half Day Islamorada
Got out with Anton and his son and father today down from Boston. Fishing was tough we had high winds blowing 25 out of the east. The hard winds have the tides kind of messed up… You try to go somewhere based on the tide table and the tide/current is not doing what it is suppose to. The hard winds have it backed up. We tried some of the local channels early and found some fish but they were unresponsive. The tide was coming in early on for the first 30 minutes or so then quit, but never really started falling it just stayed kind of slack the next couple hours everywhere we went it seemed. We tried by the bridges and I had heard a couple fish were caught there first thing this morning, but by 8:45 when we got down there, the bite was done with. We tried back up near home, and still had slack water in the channels and never had a bite but did catch a few sharks. The tide was then coming in again under the bridge when we came home, very weird as I said it never seemed to fall at all! Anyways looks like it’ll still be a little windy over the weekend, and MAYBE sunday it’ll lay down. One can only hope! 0 for 0
4/19/17 April Tarpon Fishing in Islamorada
Got out with Frank and Julie today. Tarpon weren’t the big target so we did some light tackle stuff early on. Found some trout but only one big enough to keep, and then got into a few nice snappers around the islands for dinner. We went out and tried for tarpon/shark the last hour of the day. Found some way out in the backcountry though it was very rough! We fished for a bit and had only shark bites, then saw one bust out another quarter mile so moved out there. Julie ended up getting a small guy of about 40 lbs, though we got the leader to the rod tip and he popped off for a technical release though no good pictures. Anyways was glad to end if with some good action. Have a half day tarpon trip tomorrow so will be fishing around town. 1 for 1
