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Went out for a 4 hour evening trip tonight, 4 to 8.  We caught some fresh mullet for live bait and had a few from the day before.  Bait wasn’t easy but we scraped a dozen together.  Fishing wasn’t great we had the last of the incoming tide, ran down to ch 2 and it was very weak current.  Did not see many fish I spent 15 minutes or so just idling around looking, only a couple rolling and a few on the bottom.  We set up for 30 minutes or so, several boats down there, but did not see much action at all.  I talked to some other boats, nobody really doing much.  So we ran back up near home, tide would be falling good there by now.  We set up and within 20 minutes, hooked a nice 75 lb fish.  Fought for 30 minutes or so and landed.  Caught a couple sharks and that was about it for the evening.  Two boat trip for this june islamorada fishing charter.  The other guys also landed a tarpon next to us and jumped one other one off.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk

Another overcast/rainy type day.  We didn’t get too wet though just a light drizzle.  We left early again and got a nice 60 lb tarpon right away.  After that though things slowed down for us.  We had a couple other bites that seemed like tarpon – some very hard drag pulling for 3 seconds and then dropped the baits.  Several other boats came into the area today and seemed like everyone got a bite or two.  So the fish were pretty spread out.  Anyways that was about it for the morning we also did get a big nurse shark.  I heard the live bait bite was good down the road and we stocked up on some fresh dead this afternoon, may give that a try tomorrow to do something different!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk

Had a full day today.  We tarpon fished in the morning.  Got an early 6 AM start.  Fishing was good we hooked up right away and ended up catching 3 for 3 bites.  Decent size fish, not huge, but all 65-95 lbers.  We were done by 8:30 AM and then went into the backcountry to do some light tackle stuff.  Probably doing the same game plan tomorrow hopefully they are still hungry!!!  The june islamorada tarpon fishing is off to a great start.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk