Very tough fishing today we had originally scheduled a 3/4 day but ended up cutting to a half. No bait around in the morning I brought some frozen stuff and I had a handful of fresh baits from a couple days ago that were still on good ice. Stiff west breeze and falling tide, ugly water, didn’t see a fish in the morning. We fished pretty hard a couple of the channels where the tarpon were a few days ago, and didn’t get much of anything. Not a sniff the first hour, then the 2nd spot later we did catch a teeny blacktip and a sting ray. After an hour of that, we decided to catch a few small things to bend the rod. A few ladyfish and I saw some trout chasing the baits but we didn’t entice a bite. After 20 minutes of that the guys decided to call it a half day and we went in. Just when things had started getting better, we get crappy wind again. Really I’m about over this hard, tough year! No tarpon fishing today we are just bending the rod, will probably be forgoing it on Sunday as well. 0 for 0
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6/14/16 + 6/15/16 Islamorada Tarpon Fishing Report
Had Sarah and Barry out for a couple more days. We jumped 1 small tarpon on the 14th while snook fishing though no other bites when we tried later on for tarpon specifically. On the 15th we did end up catching one out of 2 in the last part of our day. Though we enjoyed great snook fishing both days as well as catching some sharks and other sea monsters! 0 for 1 and 1 for 2
6/10/16 + 6/11/16 Islamorada Tarpon Report
6/10/16 – Today I had Mike and his son Mike out again. We caught bait in the morning and gave the tarpon a shot early. Very weak tide so we didn’t stay for long but they wanted to give snook a shot. We had good snook action and caught a baby tarpon while doing that too which was very cool. We tried the tarpon again later on the falling tide in the afternoon, and in the last hour caught a couple nice fish of 50 lbs or so. Great day of fishing! 3 for 3
6/11/16 – Today I had Sarah and Barry who fished with me last year coming all the way from across the pond. Bait was easy first thing we caught plenty of fresh mullet. Fishing was difficult we found a decent group of tarpon in the first stop but they didn’t bite for us unfortunately. Next stop there were tons of tarpon in the channel however very finicky again. We had them tail slapping right behind the boat but never touched the baits. We put live ones out too but not a sniff, though a shark did try to eat it. We did catch a few small sharks and a big ray. Anyways tried the snook again and the bait was easy but snook fishing was slow we caught 1 and lost 1. Then tried the tarpon again the last hour on the falling tide, but no dice we caught a few more sharks to finish the day. Hopefully they’ll bite better tomorrow! 0 for 0
