Capt. Rick Stanczyk

Well we dodged plenty of showers today but the fishing was well worth it.  We caught limit of trout and snappers for dinner early on for rod bending action.  We then looked around for a bit and found a lot of mullet coming off the flats near flamingo.  Plenty of smaller size mullet but perfect for the size tarpon we’ve been finding in the backcountry.  We fished one of the channels back there and it was loaded up with tarpon.  We caught 4 out of 7 in about 2 hours, plenty of smaller 30-50 lb fish though we did end with a 90 lber.  Can’t beat that!  The ladies did well today.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
305-747-6903
rick@islamoradatarpon.com

Well after some days off and a few half day snapper/trout trips, got back to doing a little tarpon fishing today in the everglades.  The july florida keys tarpon fishing has been decent, with smaller 4o-60 lb fish being found in some of the backcountry channels.  Mullet were not real easy we had to wait till the tide really fell out before they got off the flats, and had to be patient but ended up getting a couple good throws and probably 25 fresh bait mullet.  We tried fishing off east cape though mostly just sharks there, and then tried some channels around flamingo on the later incoming tide.  We had bites pretty quick, and ended up catching 1 out of 3 possibly 4 bites in an hour.  This time of year you may have to look around a bit for tarpon they can be there one day and gone the next for no reason – but if you find them and have the fresh mullets you can usually get some good action!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
305-747-6903
rick@islamoradatarpon.com

Well despite horrible looking weather coming in late this afternoon we made it out this evening for a july night tarpon fishing in islamorada trip.  We had plenty of fresh dead mullet from the other day plus a few live ladyfish and crabs.  The mullets did the trick though we went 2 for 2 dead baiting close to home, nice fish of 75 lbs.  I had Jeff Cox long time barn customer of Bud n Marys who actually had never caught a tarpon so he was very excited to not only get one but two!  We had incoming tide most of the evening though it did switch around 7:30, strange tide this morning it fell for almost 8 hours.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
305-747-6903
rick@islamoradatarpon.com