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Took Richard out from the UK this evening for tarpon.  We fished a little later 6 to 10 PM.  Not much action early we saw a handful of fish rolling but not much activity.  Only saw one boat hook up while we were out down around the big bridges.  Anyways we made our way back to some channels and had a bite finally on the end of our first drift.  A nice big fish of 100 lbs or so.  We battled her for a good 30 minutes and got a few pictures before the end of our night.  Was glad to get one!  More of the big group tomorrow I haven’t really been tarpon fishing much with them, tomorrows the last day and the snook fishing has been really good so may stick with that, but we will see.  Will have a night trip again though too.  1 for 1

Capt. Rick Stanczyk

Today we weren’t planning on tarpon but we came across them anyways.  We were snook fishing with some live baits and the tarpon were rolling in the canals.  We ended up hooking a couple and getting two to the boat before they broke off and missed a 3rd bite.  Fun with the baby tarpons.  It was a stellar day with snook, trout, snappers, shark, cobia, and tarpon.  2 for 3

Last night we fished locally and it was tough.  We had one crush a crab and pull it off the hook but that was it.  Stayed an extra half hour too but no luck unfortunately.  Gonna mix it up again tomorrow with the corporate group I am still fishing so may tarpon fish a little we will see.  And going late tomorrow night to fish the falling tide at/after dark.  0 for 1

Capt. Rick Stanczyk

Well couldn’t talk my folks into going early today they wanted to do the standard hours.  Anyways we did try a variety of things today though nothing much was really happening across the board.  Several people I talked to were struggling with the water temps dropping into the mid 70s in the middle of May.  We tried for tarpon a little while in town for the first hour but didn’t have much activity.  After that we ran into the backcountry to try more for sharks and tarpon, though didn’t have a sniff after an hour of hard chumming and fishing.  We then tried to bend the light rods a little and caught a trout and a spanish mackerel, gave up on that after a little while longer with not much happening.  Then we did at least get on to some ferocious lemon sharks and caught several of them before just calling it quits around noon on a 3/4 day.  Anyways the guys were happy they were just winding down after a couple long days of offshore fishing, but as I’ve been saying getting out early has been the ticket for catching tarpon consistently right now.  I am part of a large corporate group the next several days so we will be doing a mix of things.  I do have Wednesday evening available and am willing to go later hours (6 to 10) I think it will be very good fishing near sunset and after dark with the falling tide, so if anyone wants to go drop me a line!  0 for 0

Capt. Rick Stanczyk