Got out with Carl and Buck again for their final day. We decided to mix things up as the boys wanted to try some everglades snook fishing too. There had been some bait around for that so we caught some early on and then headed out back. Tarpon fished early on and found a good load of fish but the sharks were horrendous tough to keep a bait out. We found an area where the sharks weren’t as bad and Buck had a couple tarpon bites but both of them didn’t stay on the hook for us. A few more sharks and then Carl got a nice 75 lb tarpon! We got him to the leader several times but he broke off before we could get a boat side pic but a legal catch anyhow. After that we gave the snooks a try. Had a couple good bites in one spot but didn’t connect and then the next few spots were empty. The south breeze we had is not my favorite for snook fishing most of the areas I like, it’s just tough with that on shore wind. We were gonna give it up but we decided to try one last spot and that had some nice fish! We caught several big mangrove snappers, and one big 10 lb snook! We missed another 4 or 5 snook too, they were all big and just hard to keep out of the trees especially with the current ripping like it was. But good fun anyhow and we got one to the boat for pictures at least. Back at it tomorrow. 1 for 3
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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