Great day with Chris and Diane. We fished a full day locally around town… tarpon were biting! We landed 5, mostly big fish with a couple over 100 lbs and the rest in the 80-100 lb range. Good action on live baits they were really blowing up the mullets. We had action on the incoming and falling tide just all day long really. Fishing is really good right now, come on down and get some! YouTube video should be out in a few days.
Got out with Jonathon and Kaylee today for a half day trip. Had a last minute cancellation and I normally don’t do many half days but figured I’d take what I could and conditions looked pretty good. We got out early for a little better tidal window. Caught a nice tarpon right off the bat that Jonathan got to jump in with and get pictures of! We then got some live bait and headed to the bridges. The bite was going off, every bait we put out got piled on quick. Tarpon, jacks, cudas… We caught 3 more tarpon including a 150 lber! Missed a couple others, and caught a big jack and a few big cudas. Just hot and heavy action it was a lot of fun. Tide slowed down around 9 and it was time to go home after that and we caught our last fish right around 9:15 so perfect timing. 4 nice tarpon landed in 4 hours, can’t beat that!
Also just launched latest youtube video. A cool compilation of Pete’s big everglades tarpon from a couple days ago. Mic went out on the gopro but we put it to music and it’s really cool!
I had locals Bart and Kimmie out the other day. We fished a 3/4 day locally around the bridges. Found quite a few tarpon in a couple different spots. They weren’t showing much, just laying on the bottom, and not very active. Had to put some time in but we managed a couple bites and got a technical release on one, and the other to the boatside but unfortunately a shark got him after that! Also some other action. Youtube video is here, make sure to subscribe to see more!
Hello my name is Capt. Rick Stanczyk. I’m a fishing guide in the fabulous Florida Keys, Islamorada to be specific. Tarpon are the species I spend a lot of time fishing for and they are my passion. Along with myself, I have a team of young talented guides who I've trained that are available for tarpon charters, so please get in touch if you want to go fishing!
