Got out yesterday for a full day with my dad and a couple friends of his, Steve and Dana. We mixed it up a bit, found some snook and redfish early on with the last trickle of incoming tide. We did find some baby tarpon and my dad caught a nice juvenile we got to the boat but he jumped off before I could get him in the net, but had him on the leader for a while. After that we caught a big old snook for Steve about a 17 lber, and nice cobia for Dana. Not a whole lot doing after that though the water was super muddy as we had a hard west wind the day before.
I haven’t been fishing a whole lot else this week aside from a short half day several days ago. The Contender was in the shop but I just got it back today so she’s ready for action. But there have been a good number of tarpon out in the backcountry it appears. Most my anglers have preferred mixing it up a bit though so I just haven’t really been concentrating on them. But I have a lot of trips coming up after the weekend, so will probably spend a little time after the silver kings. October is right around the corner, and that is probably the last good tarpon month we may have. The conditions look ripe for a good fall bait run, in fact it seems to be starting a little bit already. My favorite time of year to fish! 1 for 1
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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