Dreary looking morning we had lots of weather around for our june islamorada tarpon fishing this AM. Though it passed north of us and kept it overcast which was fine with me as it’s been very hot lately. We had good tarpon action first thing, I had caught mullet the afternoon before and we kept some alive which was good because there were not many around this morning when we looked. We had some cheap shots and a couple good live bait bites, then finally hooked a fish. We jumped him off and then hooked another one shortly after that we caught of 60 lbs or so. After that it was pretty much over we had one other cheap shot, and the current got weak and lots of sargasm weed around so we moved. No tarpon in the next area so we went and did some light tackle stuff for a while. Tried the tarpon in the backcountry and we got some sharks but no tarpon. We tried another spot on the way home and it didnt look real good – very green, hot water almost 90 degrees. But I did see a couple tarpon roll and right before it was time to go we hooked a nice 40 lber that we caught to finish the day. So 2 for 5 on the day not bad.
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6/9/14 June Florida Keys Tarpon Fishing Report
Fished a full day today. We ran in the backcountry and did some light tackle stuff early on. I had a load of mullet we caught first thing this morning. We tried some of the channels back there, not much for tarpon going on but some shark action. Around noon we made our way back near town here and found a hungry school of tarpon. We had 4 or so bites and another half dozen cheap shots before finally hooking into a nice fish. We fought him over an hour, my young angler did a great job hooking and fighting the fish through the bridge. After we got back set up the tide had pretty much quit and it was all over, but definitely hit it at the right time and worked hard for a nice tarpon.
6/7/14 June Evening Islamorada Tarpon Fishing
Tarpon fishing was good tonight. We had some live mullet. Went down to the big bridges channel 5 and channel 2. Saw fish at both bridges. Fished 5 for a while, no bites just a cheap shot though did see one boat hook a couple fish. After a big nurse shark we moved over to channel 2. Saw fish rolling and on the bottom, very calm with incoming tide and clear water. We set up and soon after they were busting our baits. We had a good 5 or 6 bites and caught 2 nice fish both of 65-75 lbs on the live mullets. That was all between 6:15 PM and 7:45 PM. The last couple days before that fishing has been a little slow, I had a half day we ran in the backcountry channels and caught lots of sharks but no tarpon bites, and the whole day I had before that same thing and we also did some stuff with the light tackle, but the summer time tarpon are not real thick in the everglades channels as of yet. Though they should be coming. Today we fished the gulf and caught big goliaths, bull sharks, cobias, and more. Not sure what I’m doing tomorrow, but a full day maybe tarpon is on the menu!
