Well been on the tarpon still the last few days. August has continued to impress me. We’ve still been working the same school of fish as of a few days ago but they’ve stayed fairly happy. We caught 3 yesterday and then moved on to other stuff. Today we had to work them a little more and move a few times, but we did manage to land 3 again, and put another 3 or 4 in the air. After we got situated we got several bites. But some times the fish are moving around a lot and you have to move with them… other times you can sit and they keep coming to you which is nice. But overall still a great bite and again today we did other stuff later, decent snook and redfish fishing and still quite a few tripletails floating around.
I’m off for a few days over the weekend, and have a couple days booked next week. But again things are really slowing down now that mini season/early lobster season is done with. I feel like we are going to continue to have a productive August for tarpon as July was a bit slower this year. And September/October can be good so don’t sleep on that. Also I offer some discounted trips in those months, so you if you want to book a couple days it’s a little more affordable. Plus rooms at Bud & Mary’s are on off season rates too. Also be sure to check out and subscribe to my YouTube channel for some video reports, and more fishing shows as things slow down a little for me these next few months.
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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