Got out for some fun fishing today with friends Ron and his dad George Ferguson. We went after tarpon and decided to try and hit ’em early to see if they were there first thing with the falling tide. Yesterday we got their later in the day on the incoming and it was very good. We caught some bait early and headed out. Saw a few fish when we pulled up which was a great sign. We set up and started to see some fish going by us, but they weren’t very happy. We sat for about 30 or 40 minutes without much action. I moved a little bit and tried to get in front of other fish, and after 20 minutes or so George put a small fish in the air. Ron possibly had one that grabbed his bait and jumped as well. Then George caught 2 fish in a row, again little guys in the 20-30 lb range, but much fun! The tide started to quit after that, so we decided to just kill some time and try to catch a snook. George got a nice on on an artificial bait which was cool up inside the mainland canals. We ran back out to the tarpon area as the tide was coming in hard now. We found them in the same general area and fishing was much better. We caught 3 more tarpon in about 30 minutes to finish the day! After that we headed home and got back in time for lunch. I caught a little bit more bait on the way home so I’m all set for tomorrow at least. Hopefully the fish will still be their cooperating! 5 for 7
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6/23/17 June Full Day Tarpon Fishing Charter
Got out with Rob and his sons today for some tarpon fishing in islamorada. We headed out early and I had bait leftover from the last couple of days. We focused on tarpon and we hit a channel I hadn’t fished in a little while to start. It paid off and within 15 minutes we had a nice tarpon on! After that it quieted down though we moved and caught a bunch of sharks, and then one more move without much of anything. Tide was still falling hard and I went and took a peek around some other channels further east near flamingo. Unfortunately with the hard south wind a few days ago, the water was still very very muddy and just didn’t look very fishy at all. So we didn’t even fish there just looked around but didn’t look worthwhile. We headed out west to try off the mainland. Saw a tarpon in one area as we were running, but tried fishing there without much luck. Then we headed out further and saw another one but this time there was a good pack of fish. We ended up catching three more and jumped a couple others off. All smaller fish in the 10 to 30 lb range, but lots of fun! We also caught several more sharks. Anyways glad we stuck with it sometimes thats what you have to do, especially this year it seems! Hopefully the wind will lay down one day and it’ll be like normal summer – one can always dream! So the ‘hit and miss’ pattern continues as I’ve been preaching on here, some consistency would be great. 4 for 6
6/22/17 June Tarpon Fishing Islamorada
Got out for an extended half day with Peter today. We weren’t going to focus on tarpon for long but did give it a good shot for the first hour of the day, which is when we had most of our action yesterday. We went to the same spot but unfortunately didn’t have a tarpon bite, though we did catch several sharks. Pretty much a perfect example of how the fishing has been the last month – catch ’em good one day, and then they are gone the next! Anyways after the hour had passed, the tide quit and we went and did some other stuff which wasn’t all that easy either but we did catch a few snappers for dinner and a couple trout and ladyfish. Full day focused on tarpon tomorrow, hopefully they will cooperate. 0 for 0
