Fished in the backcountry today. I had yesterday off and the day before that we did not tarpon fish but had a fun day doing other stuff. Today we got some mullets early on, with the last of the incoming tide one of my good spots in the backcountry had some bait. We then did some light tackle fishing which was very good. The rain chased us around a bit, but we fished one of the channels back in the flamingo neighborhood around noon time. Had 3 tarpon bites, and got one to the boat on the leader but we pulled the hook on him. Smaller fish in the 30-40 lb range, but good to see them they usually start stacking up this time of year back there and if you hit it right, it can be great fishing.
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
6/13/14 June Tarpon Fishing in Flamingo
Well we ran off east cape sable today west of flamingo. We started the day with some rod bending action – trout, snapper, jacks, etc… It was tough to get any bait, not much for mullet around though I had some from the day before. And ladyfish were slim to come by even too! But we set up off the beach in a deeper area and we caught a big shark, a nice cobia, and this gorgeous 50 lb tarpon. My anglers were thrilled they had never salt water chartered before. Very nice people the type you’d love to have as customers every day! Congrats Heather on your first tarpon. We tried around locally in Islamorada for the last hour of the day, did not see any tarpon with the hard falling tide that looked good, but we did see some permit but they did not bite for us.
6/12/14 Tarpon Fishing Islamorada in June
Had a couple half days today. This morning looked like it may of been rained out. Nasty weather came through the night and again in the morning. But by 7 AM the rain quit and we ventured to a nearby channel where I’ve been having some luck. We hooked a nice 80 lb fish right away and caught him. Then the wind started to lay down and it got a bit nicer out and overcast – looked to be good conditions. We saw fish roll, but we never had another bite. I moved for the last hour and we saw fish in that 2nd spot too, but alas no more bites. But we got 1 at least! Tonight was tough fishing we tried mullet fishing early with no success, then switched to crabs for the end of the falling tide. We did have a couple bites, one of which was a permit that got us wrapped up in some old bridge rubble. But we did not catch anything this evening. Oh well it happens, back at it tomorrow with a full day trip. Mullet were very few and far between today we went looking early in the morning and in the afternoon between my trips, we only caught 6 in about 3 hours… That time of year for crabs and other varietys of ‘dead bait’.
