Today we had good fishing we left out at 7 as I had another boat with me on the trip. We found a handful of tarpon in some channels early though not many. No bites we caught a few sharks though. Near 10:30 we were making our way to the gulf to switch things up and try something else, though we ran into a large school of tarpon on the way! It was slick calm so it was easy to spot them rolling a ways away. Anyways we were right on the slack tide it was just starting in. As soon as it did we both got good action. We ended up landing 3 out of 6 tarpon all in the 30 to 50 lb range. Good fun we were glad to have found them. Anyways I had a day off after this finally after 30+ days and lots of evenings, so enjoying that and back to the grind on Wednesday. Will be tarpon fishing some more. Summer time is here hopefully after this full moon the fish will settle in and it will get consistent as it should. 3 for 6
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5/22/16 Islamorada Tarpon Fishing Report late may
Got out early after them today. We tried some of the local channels first and got out at 5 AM in the dark. Though it was plenty bright with the full moon out. Winds were light northwest – can’t beleive it northwest breeze and it is almost June! A mild chill in the air felt good though obviously not a fan of it for the fishing. Anyways we heard a few fish rolling and made a few good drifts though never had a bite, tried another channel out back where the tide was running longer, and didn’t hear much there eventually saw one roll but still no luck. Around 6:30 we ran into the backcountry and caught a few mullet on the way. Tried a channel back there the sharks were very active, saw a couple tarpon roll eventually though no bite from them. We ran to a different channel and saw a ton of tarpon rolling – yay! We got in front of some, put baits out and soon after had a shark bite which I swore was a tarpon as a tarpon jumped right when/where it bit! I don’t know how a shark got it, but it did. Then we hooked a big lemon shark which was cool something different, and while fighting that Rob hooked a nice 40 lb tarpon we landed. After that we had one more possible tarpon bite though we missed it never saw what it was, and then the tarpon just seemed to disappear. We had been seeing them roll everywhere and now nothing. Anyways we eventually left and tried another area where we found a lot of little tarpon though no bites out of them. Then tried around town the last hour of the day with the live baits and we did have several tarpon give us some cheap shots, chasing the baits around, and finally another solid bite though we missed him – it was slack tide so tough to get tight on the fish and set the hook. All in all a fun day was glad to have gotten one again. 1 for 2
5/21/16 May tarpon fishing report
Got out this morning for a half day and we caught a nice little tarpon in the backcountry. They weren’t where they were the day before, we caught a few little sharks there. But we found some around flamingo and got one to bite at least and landed him. Didn’t see much else though only a couple rolling in the channel where we got the 1. 1 for 1
This evening I had the same crew again. Unfortunately it was slow fishing again. We had a few cheap shots on our mullet early and I thought we would get one, but didn’t happen. We moved around and tried some different areas. No dice. We did find some fish rolling off the edge of a bank and set up there to fish for a bit, finally had one bait get a little nervous and jumpy though nothing ever pounded him. We put our crabs out and we had a couple mystery bites on those, got the crabs back with a few legs missing though I dont think they were tarpon bites. Anyways slow night our sister boat didn’t catch one either they jumped one off. Going early tomorrow we will try to catch the falling tide first thing then run into the backcountry to try back there. 0 for 0
