We’re well into October and we’ve been having the fall bait run going on for the last few weeks here. Tarpon fishing hasn’t been red hot as it sometimes can get in October when we get those conditions but it’s been fair I’ll say. We had more numbers of tarpon around I feel in July and the later summer it’s been smaller groups though when you get in them you can still have decent fishing. Right now if you get in the areas with fish you can get some good windows but it’s often short lived and when conditions go south fishing can deteriorate quickly. But the last few trips I’ve had in the last couple of weeks we’ve had a tarpon bite or two about every day we’ve tried. Last week I had a regular customer out Randy and his family and we had one day we caught 3 tarpon and had a few more bites. Then the last three days I’ve fished we had action with baby tarpon in the creeks one day with several bites and landed one. Yesterday we focused more on slightly larger tarpon and jumped one in the morning, and then caught one in the afternoon. Today we were fishing for larger snook with my dad and ran into a good group of tarpon and ended up catching one on pinfish. We did see some more tarpon activity further up the coast where the mullet run was going on but we didn’t end up messing with them there. We have a good hard wind coming this weekend then next week it’s lightening up but will stay northerly but wont’ get real cold. That should continue to push bait down and fire up some tarpon that are here. This may continue right into early November obviously no guarantees but as long as water temps stay in the high 70s/80s tarpon are a possibility!
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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