Good fishing for us today we got out early and we caught one close to home in the first hour. Stubborn fish not huge but he put up a good long battle, about 65 lbs. After that we ran in the backcountry off cape sable. Found a good school of fish off the beach. Took a little while to get dialed in on them and we had to keep moving around, but we worked it and caught 3 out of 5 back there. Wonderful day 4 tarpon landed you can’t beat that! Lots of the ‘summer time’ smaller resident fish back there, but they are a blast. Great to be seeing them hopefully it’s a good sign for our July and August. 4 for 6
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
5/31/15 May Tarpon Fishing Florida Keys
Well it’s the end of May. Got out for a full day today. We were just action fishing tarpon wasn’t the main target species, though my guys had fished the other day for them and had not caught so they didn’t mind trying a little. Anyways we did some light tackle stuff in the morning and that was fairly good. We had caught some mullet very early close to home so I had bait. We tried off the beaches and immediately saw a couple fish roll. Soon after we jumped a nice small tarpon and about 15 minutes later hooked and caught a 40 lber. After that a nice shark. We saw fish showing about 50 yards outside of us so we moved out there and soon after hooked about a 30 lb tarpon we landed. Finished with a few snook after that to end another great day! 2 for 2
5/29/15 May Night Tarpon Fishing Report Islamorada
Had a couple days off though had some of my wifes brother and his girlfriend down for company. John’s had some bad luck with tarpon he’s fished with me a few times and hooked up and lost a couple, and a couple times of just terrible conditions and no action. But they were able to make it down during my days off and I told him we should be able to get him one. We didn’t get out until late though it was good conditions with falling tide and a nice east breeze. We tried very close by where I’d been having luck in the mornings but no life at all there. So we went to traditional night time fishing – drifting with crabs – in another channel close by. We hooked up fairly soon and his girlfriend Vivian landed a nice 65 lb tarpon. We were able to get a few pictures. John was next up and we made another drift and had a fish blow up a crab but missed the bait. Then the next drift we hooked up. He landed a nice 50 lb fish though unfortunately we had him on the leader several times but he didn’t want to roll over for a picture. Eventually he ran off and we pulled the hook but they got some good video. Was nice to get them both their first tarpon! 2 for 2
