Got out with the Stepan crew again today. Good fishing out in the backcountry. Wind laid out flat calm and the tarpon were everywhere… They didn’t bite red hot we had to work at it, but ended up getting 5 bites and landing 4 fish, along with plenty of sharks too including blacktips and lemons. We did have a good hour of slack tide mid day too, took a while to turn, so otherwise we would of done a bit better I think. Tomorrow I may likely run right to this area, as we goofed around for an hour or so before getting their today and also left late at 7:30 or so. 4 for 5
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5/2/17 May Bridge Fishing for tarpon in the Florida Keys
Got out with the Stepan Polymers group today which we have for the next 3 days as well. The boys wanted meat to start with so we focused on our mangrove snappers and had decent luck with that though we had to work at it and fish multiple areas to get some good size ones. We decided to try for tarpon in the afternoon. We headed back towards the big bridge at Long Key around noon time, however we caught the very end of the falling tide and slack water after that. I didn’t feel like waiting on the tide and didn’t see much for fish either so we ran back towards home and fished some other local bridges. Saw quite a few fish on the bottom and we set up, eventually getting a bite fairly quickly and Aneil landed a nice 140 lb tarpon! We set back up and I thought it might be a good window of fishing with the tide coming in good now, but after that we never had another sniff… Anyways was glad to have gotten a tarpon. 1 for 1
5/1/17 May Tarpon Fishing in Islamorada
Broke in the first day of May the right way! Conditions didn’t look great to start with the wind was still howling and we had some passing squalls throughout the morning. We did hook a tarpon early on in one of the local channels though unfortunately we jumped him off after a few big jumps. The sharks were active though and kept us busy. After a while we had to run in to avoid some rain storms and regroup. We headed back out and found a little bit of bait on the way. I was able to catch a few but unfortunately had tweaked my back the day before, and a few throws of the net didn’t do that much good. But we got what we needed. The late morning/afternoon ended up being much nicer, the sun came out and the winds weren’t nearly as bad as the day before. We ran down to the bridges to try next and caught the start of the incoming tide. Found a few fish off one of the banks, however they were not interested in feeding we gave it a hard try and moved several times. We ended up fishing near one of the bridges and could see some fish on the bottom machine training back and forth. We had to fight the sargasm weed, but eventually got a good bite on our live mullet and caught a nice 100 lb fish! After that we caught a few more sharks and a nice mutton snapper, then we got one last tarpon to finish the day about a 50 lber. Was glad to get a couple, I have a big group the next 4 days so will likely be mixing it up each day but I’m sure a little tarpon will be on the agenda. 2 for 3
