Well I’m back took a couple weeks off for the wedding and been home the last week but things really died while I was gone. Fun fished one day but not for tarpon. But today finally got back in the mix after getting cancelled yesterday due to weather. We had an overcast day today with rain offshore though we never got it in the bay which was nice, kept things very cool. We caught plenty of fresh mullet first thing and ran off the beaches of the mainland. Did not see any tarpon out there we tried a couple spots, not even a shark bite! We did catch a few goliath groupers off a deep hole, but not much else for life. We ended up catching some big mangrove snappers for lunch and then tarpon fished some of the channels over near flamingo. We got lucky and mid day we hooked a nice 60 lb fish that gave us some nice jumps and we leadered and released. That was it though no other bites, finished the day trying to catch a snook which we had a couple shots but they beat us into the mangroves. Though we did pull another nice juvenile grouper out of the trees. So tarpon are still possible to catch I will be available for charter for another 10 days or so, I only have a couple days booked so if your looking to go islamorada tarpon fishing in september drop me a line!
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8/16/14 Florida Keys August Tarpon Fishing Report
Well I can’t get a break people keep wanting to go fishing and I’m just can’t say no especially when the fishing has been this consistent and good! For tarpon fishing islamorada in august this is excellent! Had Tom and Kim from Alabama today they ran into me at the dock while cleaning a few fish yesterday. He wanted to put Kim on a tarpon and wouldn’t mind one himself. So we did just that, ran in the back caught a few baits. Baits were there but not real easy but we wrangled up 30 or so. Had the last of the incoming water I fished a channel for the first 45 minutes since we’d have slack water further out for a while. No bites just some sharks. Then we ran out off the beach and caught last little bit of the change of the tide. More sharks, then once the water started going out we saw a few tarpon free jump. Finally hooked one and Tom landed it a nice 45 lb fish. Then Kim got hers a 30 lber that was very acrobatic. Then we jumped another one off. And a bunch of blacktips in between to keep us busy! Ran out of bait and then came home.
8/15/14 East Cape Tarpon Fishing in August
Back at it again today. I had some bait from yesterday so we got a later 7 AM start. Ran into the backcountry off east cape sable. Tarpon were there and fishing was good. We had good falling tide all morning and light southwest winds. Lots of action with blacktip sharks. And we went 2 for 2 on tarpon, one 30 lber and another 50-60 lber. The august tarpon fishing in islamorada is good and fishing has been consistent as you can see. It’s very nice I am often the only boat out there and have it all to myself! But I don’t have any more charters booked and and am going out of town tuesday for a couple weeks then getting married on the 30th. I may end up going over the weekend but otherwise you may not hear from me for a little bit. If your looking to go tarpon fishing and I’m unavailable I can recommend some great guides who are so just drop me a line!
