Got out for Day 2 with David and Dana. We headed out early and caught some bait in the backcountry. The bait wasn’t in the same spot as the last few days so had to look around a little, but found a good school of it a mile or so away. We loaded up and then searched for tarpon. I checked an area where a buddy of mine said yesterday he had seen a bunch of tarpon. I was hoping there’d be some larger size fish there, but we looked around for 10 minutes and never saw a sign of them. It was slick calm so they shoul’ve been easy to see. I didn’t run all over the places but just checked where he had seen them, so they could’ve been further up one of those channel areas, but I didn’t want to invest too much time. We ran back where we had found them yesterday. Today there was still a load of fish there, mostly small to medium size tarpon. We ended up doing pretty well and had five bites and landed all five fish, finishing up with a double header! Also plenty of bluefish, jacks, and a few large catfish. By 9:30 or so though the bite was over. We checked another channel nearby and saw a few tarpon there too, but the by-catch was too strong to get through. We wrapped it up at 10:30 and headed back on our 3/4 day. Great day again hopefully it continues to stay this good, back at it tomorrow. 5 for 5
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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