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Today the fishing was much better than yesterday for the big backcountry tarpon fishing charters.  We ran back into the everglades where we had hooked a fish yesterday.  Very early the end of the falling tide was fishable – none of the red nasty weed that was balling up yesterday all over every bait making it unfishable.  We caught 2 out of 4 big tarpon, plus a few other sharks and such.  The everglades tarpon fishing should hopefully continue to be good through the week, however the falling water and first of the incoming tide are a must with the nasty, red weed that is coming in from the gulf.  These bad boys all ate dead mullet on the bottom.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
305-747-6903
rick@islamoradatarpon.com

tarpon jumping

Had an early morning trip this morning going after some tarpon fishing islamorada.  We hit some of the local bridges which often hold fish year round, though in the spring are home to many migrating fish as well.  We did some channel 5 bridge tarpon fishing.  The tide was incoming all morning, we left at 6 AM and hit it early.  No bites in the darkness surprisingly.  Moved around once we could see a bit and found some fish rolling at some other pilings. We had 3 bites on live mullets on the surface though weren’t able to drive the hooks into any of them.  No bites on the bottom baits, and a couple other bust the mullets and miss them.  The tarpon have been around though appears to be mostly local fish.  Though now that the weather is stabilizing I imagine a lot of migrators should show up!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
305-747-6903
rick@islamoradatarpon.com
Islamorada Tarpon Fishing

Well the rain and wind didn’t stop us from venturing out to squeeze a half day islamorada tarpon fishing charter in.  It actually was fairly nice the winds did not howl till later in the day, and not much rain in the Islamorada area only a drizzle on the way home.  Mullet were everywhere again though we had some from yesterday.  We had a couple bites on bottom baits, and a couple nice lively strikes on the live surface baits as well.  We ended up catching 2 out of 4 tarpon.  Also caught 2 big nurse sharks, and a monster size jack crevalle.  All in all a fun day, beats sitting in the hotel room twiddling your thumbs!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
305-747-6903
rick@islamoradatarpon.com