Well slow season is officially here, I had 3 days off in a row and that hasn’t happened in some time. Today I got out with Taylor, Stacy, and their son John. Tarpon was the target. Unfortunately we had some pretty bad weather when we headed out, it looked like we could get away from it and it might be alright in the backcountry, but by the time we got back there everything closed in on us. Luckily we managed to stay dry and ducked into Flamingo until things passed. We had to hang out there for close to an hour and then got out, fortunately I had some leftover bait from several days ago. Tarpon fishing was very slow we did not see a tarpon all day. We fished hard in the few areas I caught them the last day I was out, but never saw a roll or nothing. We caught a few big lemon sharks, sting rays, and one black tip. After the tide quit we tried another channel, and had one more shark bite that was it. We decided to bend the light rods on the way home for the last 30 minutes, and caught plenty of trout, ladyfish, and a few jacks. The weather I think fouled us up today, tarpon don’t like that lightning and thunder, I thought we’d see them after things cleared up but didn’t happen. I have them again tomorrow hopefully everything will cooperate a little better! 0 for 0
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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