Got out with Paul, Christie, and their son Jet over from Australia. They have a fishing TV show over their called iFish and are big social media people as well. My brother took them fishing for a few days and they went with me today and are going again on Monday. We had bait already stocked up and headed out early. Got on a good tarpon bite early. Missed a double header right off the bat but did catch one of the fish! A nice 75 lber for Jet. After that we missed one more bite, and then dad had one on for a few minutes but unfortunately he jumped and threw the hook. Things slowed down a little after that but we had some sharks including a big lemon. We ran and made a move to try another channel where a buddy of mine was. Saw a few fish but no bites though did get a few sharks here too. After that we decided to mix it up. Tried some areas for snook with no luck but did get a few big jack crevelle. Then we found some snook on some shorelines and got some big trout and jacks there too! A couple snook on bait and one on artificial – nice! Then we saw some tarpon in the area and set back up. We had a couple more bites jumping one fish and getting zipped by another. Then we finally caught another Christie getting a nice 40 lber that we were able to get good pictures of right off the beach! We headed home after that. Great day with great folks hopefully day 2 is as productive! Back at it tomorrow. 2 for 7
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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