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Fished around town today for the tarpon.  We caught bait good early this morning.  Had weak tides to start I tried a local channel with the last wee bit of falling tide but did not see any fish.  We ran down the road and check a few spots – very weedy.  At the bridges finally the tide started rolling and we saw some fish.  Had a couple bites and few cheap shots in about a 30 minute window, and then the weed got horrendous and made it almost unfishable.  We ran back near home and set up with the dead baits and got a nice 65 lb on the bottom.  Went and bent the small rods with some snapper and such to finish the day.  Departing early tomorrow morning so we’ll have a couple hours of falling tide to fish.  You can see how bad the weed was while we were fighting this fish!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk

We tarpon fished today in the florida keys.  Islamorada tarpon fishing to be exact.  We hit the same areas I’ve been fishing the last few days.  It took a while for the tide to get going and fish to bite, but after an hour or so we started having action.  We caught 3 out of 5 nice tarpon again and a big sting ray.  The end of May has been much more productive the fish seem to be getting happier and out of their ‘lockjaw’ mode.  Glad to finish the month strong!  We will be getting into our summer time tarpon fishing here soon, many more local resident fish though it can be really good if you know when and where to look for these guys!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk

Today we had good bait in the morning and good fishing.  Caught about 6 dozen mullet I split with my fellow bait catching buddy.  We fished the local channels and fishing was good.  Start of the incoming tide and a bit of cloudiness/overcast.  We had 5 solid bites and caught 3 fish, mostly fishing dead bait but a good bite on live and another ‘cheap shot’ as well.  Fairly big fish 65 – 100 lbs.  We fished for about 3 hours until 10:00 or so then it seemed to be over with.  Glad to have a multi-fish day again after a little slump for the last week and a half.  Yesterday we had a couple bites we only fished for an hour in the morning and I did not have much bait, but we jumped one off on a live bait, and had another on dead bait we chased down but the hook unfortunately seemed to fall out of his mouth.  My angler wasn’t able to reel very fast and we ended up with a lot of slack line to the fish.  But still had fun anyways and we caught several other things in the backcountry after that.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk