Gave ’em a break yesterday and got a nice day off! Today we were back at it. Fishing was pretty good we caught mullet as usual first thing in the morning. Baits were not real easy but not too tough, had to make about 6 throws to get my 3 dozen baits. Off to the fishing grounds. Tide was just starting to fall when we got out there. Same general area I’ve been fishing this week. Lots of small blacktips, but got a tarpon eventually. Then more shark action and then we started seeing a few tarpon blowing up in the area – free jumping! Soon after we jumped another tarpon, then immediatly after the other rod went off and we hooked that fish. Landed that tarpon and then some more sharks, but got a 4th bite we landed just before 10:00. So 3 for 4 on the tarpons, all fish between 30 and 50 lbs, and plenty of blacktip sharks. Good fishing! We finished the day with some snook and snapper action.
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8/12/14 August Backcounty Tarpon Fishing in Islamorada
Well more fishing off the beaches of cape sable today. We caught mullet early in the morning, last of the incoming tide in my usual spot they were there. Ran out off of east cape. Saw one fish bust and we ran to set up nearby. Unfortunately a rain storm was close and we got a little wet but nothing too crazy. We did not have a tarpon bite just a few small sharks so after a little bit we moved further down just where I had caught fish yesterday. Saw a few bust inshore of us but hung out. After a bit we finally had a nice tarpon on, caught a 45 lber. Another 20 minutes later we caught another about 30 lbs. Very acrobatic summer time fish, one almost jumped in the boat! We also caught some small sharks again. Then we fished some structure and caught a small goliath and hooked into a monster blacktip shark! I saw him jump 100 yards out and it looked like a monster bull shark but they don’t jump like that. Unfortunately never got a good look at him up close as he took off when we got near him and then we had too much pressure and broke the line. But all in all a successful morning each angler got a tarpon, then we caught a few nice snappers for dinner! August florida keys tarpon fishing marches on!
8/11/14 Mid August Tarpon Fishing East Cape Sable
Got a 3/4 day in today we left early at 6 for our florida keys tarpon fishing in august. I had mullet from yesterday so we tried to catch some pilchards as we originally had a full day planned. Bait was not cooperative though only pinfish and snappers came up. So we ran and tarpon fished off the beaches of east cape sable. A boat was fishing where I had been sitting lately so I fished another area nearby, we did not have any luck early though I spotted a free jumping fish off in the distance a couple hundred yards. We had good falling tide though with the super moon. About 10 minutes later I saw another bust so we reeled our lines up and trolled over there. We set up and within 15 minutes we had a nice 65 lb tarpon on! He swam back at the boat with bait in his mouth and jumped off the bow, very exciting he did not know he was hooked. We chased and caught him and set back up. Hooked a double header though one spit the bait and we caught the other one, a 30 lb fish. Then we had about a 40 lber that went crazy jumping and we landed him quickly. It was about slack tide and little blacktip sharks went crazy. We tried to fish some muds for trout and not much action, and I talked the guys into calling it a shorter day since we did not have other bait and it was flat calm and very hot, not looking like conditions for a productive afternoon. When you catch 3 tarpon in the morning this time of year, sometimes it makes sense to just be happy with that and call it a day!
