Switched gears today we ran back into the everglades to tarpon fish. The spring tarpon migration is in full effect back there, tons of fish were out in the gulf. The ‘red weed’ we often deal with was not too terrible, at least for a couple hours of fishing. We caught 2 for 2 big tarpon in one of the channels, both monster fish of 120-130 lbs. They were battlers we had to pull on them each for 45 minutes to an hour. So that ate up a lot of time. After the 2nd one we had to move because at that point the weed got really bad. However we just went further out in the gulf and there were plenty of fish out there and the weed wasn’t too bad I guess it is really getting filtered through the channels. We caught 1 more big tarpon of 110 lbs, and a large blacktip shark. So pretty good morning we then went and caught a few permit off a gulf wreck, fabulous day! 3 for 3
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
3/23/15 Channel 2 tarpon fishing Islamorada
Fishing the channel 2 bridge was still productive today. We had a little west wind today not very hard though it picked up a little in the afternoon. The fish didn’t seem to mind we had a few cheap shots right away and eventually hooked and landed a nice 80 lber. I had him on the leader and he took off and we got tip wrapped and lost him before we could get a good picture. By the time we got back tide was slacked and we adjusted once it started coming in. Soon we hooked another 60 lb and he drug us quite a ways and never jumped. We got him to the boat multiple times and eventually he came unbuttoned. No good boatside pictures but two fish to the boat. After that we tried some other stuff the patch reef fishing was very good we got 10 keeper hogfish plus a variety of other stuff. 2 for 3.
3/22/15 Florida Keys Bridge Tarpon Fishing
Well I was suppose to have the day off today though I switched it around with next Thursday. I had a regular of mine Alex who had me booked that morning but was able to switch it to today which worked better for me. It proved to be a good move. I had plenty of mullet from yesterday afternoon which we had caught, and caught a few livies on the way out this morning. We set up where the school of fish was yesterday with the last trickle of falling tide. I put the live mullet out and action was almost instant we had a couple cheap shots, missed one bite, then a few minutes later hooked this nice 50 lb fish. We landed him and had a few good jumps. Alex was done after that and we went meat fishing which was excellent we got our limit of hogfish and came home. I have the next few days and then Thursday and Sunday I finally have a couple days off after going for a month straight! 1 for 2
