Haven’t posted in a while and that is because it is winter time now and we are not doing much tarpon fishing. Though we did happen to catch a baby tarpon today so figured I’d mention it! We were fishing for snook around the flamingo area casting pilchards, which the snook fishing has been very good for the most part. Occasional redfish mixed in too. Anyhow around one of the island moats we landed a small 10 lb baby tarpon. I had been seeing a handful while ‘fun fishing’ deeper in the everglades in some of the creeks and such, though I am usually just fishing for snook and redfish back there when I’m out myelf for fun, so I don’t really mess with them. Anyways it is possible to catch them when the weather is warm in the winter – I usually recommend fishing for other fish with the idea that if we see some around we may give it a try. The normal december everglades fishery is snook, redfish, black drum, sheepshead, trout, and a few other fish. Also the gulf fishing for mackerel, cobia, goliath grouper, can tripletail can be good when calm!
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11/1/13 November Islamorada Tarpon Fishing Report
Well the weather was nice today and looks to be tomorrow as well. November tarpon fishing in islamorada can still be possible with these conditions! No major cold fronts yet and the mild northerly winds have pushed lots of bait down the coast. We commonly refer to this as the ‘fall bait run.’ Lots of black mullet mostly. Tarpon around the mainland really go nuts on these guys, today for instance there were literally rivers of mullet with tarpon busting them from 20 to close to 200 lbs! We had to wait for the incoming tide before bait was really catchable. But we made a throw of the net and had a load of bait. Tarpon were all off the beaches as well as in the canals – slick calm conditions which they like! We fished for an hour this afternoon for them and caught 2 nice tarpon. The fresh black mullets did the trick. We are suppose to be getting some cooler weather and once the temperatures really drop that is usually it for most the tarpon fishing I do until the spring, but other great options are possible fishing the florida keys in november.
November Islamorada Tarpon
10/21/13 East Cape Sable Tarpon Fishing Report
Well we got out today and had a lot of fun. We had plenty of mullet from the previous day iced down nicely and a load of pilchards. We had some good snook action in the morning on pilchards. We then found lots of busting and free jumping tarpon offshore in the east cape sable area. The end of the falling tide seemed to have them very active. We set up and shortly after had about 3 fish in the air within an hour. Unfortunately we did not get the hook set good enough in any of them, though we did land plenty of other fish including sharks, cobia, and grouper. The fall mullet run is occurring so tarpon fishing can still be good, I am fishing all this week and then going out of town.
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
rick@islamoradatarpon.com
