Well got out for a couple days here before labor day weekend. Still a good amount of tarpon in the backcountry but not quite as many as we saw last week. More concentrated and not visually seeing them jump all around like they sometimes do. But we found a decent body of them in one of the areas we often see them the last two days. Yesterday we looked around a good bit before just kinda putting them out. We ended up seeing one jump and hooked up pretty quickly and caught it. After that the weather got bad there was a good squall line moving down the edge of the everglades that chased us out of there. We ended up fishing some of the channels of flamingo and found a few more tarpon and managed a couple other bites but they didn’t stay hooked up for us. But at least we got one. Today we had similar weather pattern but we had a good calm window for the first couple of hours. I ran right to where we caught our first fish yesterday and had to look around but we did mark some fish on the sonar. Pretty much every time we marked one we set up and put our baits out and after 5-10 minutes we’d hook up. We ended up catching 4 and jumped off one more so really good fishing overall. Did see one big pack of fish that we drifted a bait into and hooked up which was really cool. After that again the weather started getting nasty and blowing 20 mph and rain, so we ran back towards flamingo but got chased out of there too and ended up calling it a day early. But anyways still good opportunities for tarpon this late summer. I’ll be back to fishing next week have a few days coming up but if you want to get out after them in the next couple of months give me a shout. Capt. Stephen will be back early September too and we’ll be working together to keep grinding on these tarpon.
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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