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6/9/2022 June Tarpon Fishing in the Florida Keys

Well it’s been busy and I’ve still been getting after the tarpon some.  April and May were decent fishing this year… not quite as good as last years epic showing but fairly consistent with a few windows of really good fishing.  Though last week i finally hit a couple trips of ‘striking out’ right before this tropical storm we had come through, which was the first time that had happened in a couple months.  Some fish were around but just not too happy and it’s been a bit of a grind the last couple weeks.  Anyways I was gone for the weekend and just got back out after some tarpon today.  Wasn’t sure what to expect but it was actually OK for us.  We fished a 6 hour trip and had 3 tarpon bites and landed all 3 fish.  Some good numbers of tarpon still around the bridges.  Though as we move more into summer I’m often starting to fish the backcountry more, and often times July/August we get some good numbers of resident tarpon back there, plus there are a lot of other options such as snook, tripletail, permit, etc… if tarpon aren’t being cooperative.  I’m fairly booked up for the rest of June, though have some dates starting in July though we’ll be on vacation ourselves for some of it.  And then the off season August – October is fairly wide open.  It can definitely still be good fishing that time of year, again sometimes best to be open to what’s biting, but I’ve had some years where that is some of the best tarpon fishing we see so you never know.  I’m also usually more amenable to booking trips further in advance for off season as I’m not as busy, and if weather/hurricane/etc… is of concern I don’t mind rescheduling or whatever we need to do.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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Facebook: Islamorada Tarpon Fishing
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Great tarpon for Glen!

April has been decent overall this year for tarpon.  Honeslty not quite as good as last year though not bad.  We’ve just had to work at it a lot of days and some days that leads to banner fishing and some days just a few fish.  But that’s fishing!  We’ve still been having some late cold fronts (though at least not major tempearture drops – just northerly winds) and very windy days, which can make fishing a little more tricky.  I’m hoping May/June is going to be on fire for us but we will see what happens!

Here is a great video of Glen catching his first tarpon he fished with me for 2 days.  We caught several each day though on the first day he wasn’t able to get a ‘face grab’ but on day 2 the first fish of the day cooperated for that!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
Instagram: @richardstanczyk
Facebook: Islamorada Tarpon Fishing
YouTube: Bud n’ Mary’s Marina

April tarpon fishing getting going!

Well tarpon fishing is really starting to heat up.  We’ve had quite a few late cold fronts throughout March and every time things have started to get right, it seems to get shut down again.  And unfortunately I must say we have another cold front coming this weekend dropping back into the low 60s so it might slow things down yet again.  But this may bode well for anglers coming later in May/June, as many of the fish haven’t been ‘picked on’ yet so the latter part of the season hopefully will be strong.  The other day fishing was phenomenal we had a banner day releasing 13 tarpon at the bridges.  Today the bite wasn’t quite as hot but we still released 5.  That’s technical releases too as many of the fish you aren’t really able to get rolled over easily for pictures plus there are lots of sharks around trying to eat them so we try to preserve the tarpons life.  Here is a crazy clip of a shark trying to eat our tarpon the other day that we broke off and managed to chase the shark away from the tarpon.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
Instagram: @richardstanczyk
Facebook: Islamorada Tarpon Fishing
YouTube: Bud n’ Mary’s Marina