Today we ran in the backcountry in the morning. Did some light tackle stuff, then we came across a nice school of mullet and were able to catch a couple dozen. I tried some of the backcountry channels and off the mainland shoreline, though not much for tarpon going on there but we did catch several sharks. We finished up around town again with the last of the outgoing tide, very low water and hot – 90 degrees on my temp gauge! We had 3 bites and landed one nice fish of 100 lbs that screams off probably close to 300 yards of line. We gave chase and after he slowed down it wasn’t a long battle, I think the long run in the hot water did him in! Tomorrow I have a morning half day tarpon trip and an evening trip, hopefully it is good!
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
6/10/14 June Tarpon Fishing in the Keys
Dreary looking morning we had lots of weather around for our june islamorada tarpon fishing this AM. Though it passed north of us and kept it overcast which was fine with me as it’s been very hot lately. We had good tarpon action first thing, I had caught mullet the afternoon before and we kept some alive which was good because there were not many around this morning when we looked. We had some cheap shots and a couple good live bait bites, then finally hooked a fish. We jumped him off and then hooked another one shortly after that we caught of 60 lbs or so. After that it was pretty much over we had one other cheap shot, and the current got weak and lots of sargasm weed around so we moved. No tarpon in the next area so we went and did some light tackle stuff for a while. Tried the tarpon in the backcountry and we got some sharks but no tarpon. We tried another spot on the way home and it didnt look real good – very green, hot water almost 90 degrees. But I did see a couple tarpon roll and right before it was time to go we hooked a nice 40 lber that we caught to finish the day. So 2 for 5 on the day not bad.
6/9/14 June Florida Keys Tarpon Fishing Report
Fished a full day today. We ran in the backcountry and did some light tackle stuff early on. I had a load of mullet we caught first thing this morning. We tried some of the channels back there, not much for tarpon going on but some shark action. Around noon we made our way back near town here and found a hungry school of tarpon. We had 4 or so bites and another half dozen cheap shots before finally hooking into a nice fish. We fought him over an hour, my young angler did a great job hooking and fighting the fish through the bridge. After we got back set up the tide had pretty much quit and it was all over, but definitely hit it at the right time and worked hard for a nice tarpon.
