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We were not really focused on tarpon today.  My anglers wanted fish for dinner.  So we did that most of the day.  But we did give tarpon a try for the last hour after I talked them into it!  We fished some of the backcountry areas since we were back there anyways and I wanted to see if the fish were too.  The recent late cold fronts had made the fishing back there inconsistent and tough, though the last couple days were flat calm and warmed right back up so I thought they may move in.  I was right we only fished the last hour and right at the change of the tide but we caught 1 out of 2 tarpon and a couple sharks.  Nice way to end our day.  I’ll be doing a full day tarpon fishing tomorrow and likely heading back there to get away from the crowds in town here.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk

Had a full day and an evening trip tonight.  Long day!  We tarpon fished for all of it really.  They day trip had lots of action.  We only caught 1 fish but we had probably 10 solid bites and plenty of other bust the mullets and ‘cheap shot’ us.  So it kept us entertained.  Mostly all on live bait fishing channel 2 bridge.  The evening trip was tough for me.  We found some bait balls in between trips so I loaded up with fresh bait.  We went back around channel 2 to start and had a few cheap shots fairly quick.  I was ready for it to be a productive night and then that was just about all the tarpon action we had.  We fished hard too.  Saw a handful of fish caught but we just could not get lined up on them.  Ran back up the road around 6:30 and tried some of the local channels.  We saw plenty of fish rolling though could not get them to eat for nothing.  We did catch a few sharks at least.  Oh well you can’t catch them every time… though it’s been a while since I really have been on a ‘tarpon trip’ and not had a bite.  Hopefully the last time for a while!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk

Fished a full day today and stuck around town tarpon fishing for most of it.  We had a couple bites earlier near home where I’ve been having some luck.  Unfortunately both fish did not stick we jumped one off, the other we never saw but I assume tarpon.  After that we ran down the road around the bridges.  Lots of tarpon there again and lots of boats fishing.  We managed to catch a couple, one exciting bite on live mullet and the other on dead.  A 50 lb fish and then a nice 110 lb fish.  They seemed a bit happier today we saw several other boats hook up, nobody was crushing them but at least they were biting a bit.  The afternoon was slow we did spend an hour catching more bait, it was nice to see some mullet around as they’ve been scarce.  They were not easy to catch but we spent an hour and got 30 or so.  The afternoon back around home was slow just caught a big ray, saw a few tarpon roll in one channel but no bites.  Tomorrow looks like the wind will swing back around to the easterly quadrant.  That should be good news for all of us!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk