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Great day with Jack, Jake, and Chris! We were focused on tarpon and had some bait left from the other day. Stopped in the backcountry first thing and caught a nice snook while waiting on the tide change. Then we went searching for tarpon. Found a good school and there were a decent amount of fish. We set up and Jake got one right off the bat to start about a 100 lb fish. After that we had to move around a little. But a little later Chris got one, about a 60 lber. Landed that one and then it was Jack’s turn. Unfortunately the tarpon seemed like they didn’t want to respond. We caught a few sharks and kept with it. Finally after several moves it seemed like it may not happen. But we had a few baits left and made one last move. We for lucky and soon Jack had a big 100 lber on! Finished the day with that one, got all three fish to the hand too which was nice. We headed on home and caught some bait on the way which wasn’t easy but we got in the right spot at the right time. Back at it tomorrow with the same crew.  3 for 3

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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Got out with the Cable family today.  We planned on a mixed bag but we did end up doing a little bit of tarpon fishing.  We managed to hook one nice fish, but after a few minutes of chasing him we pulled the hook unfortunately.  Ran deep into the everglades to look, as we had the harsh east wind again.  Did not see a ton today, but looks like it is suppose to start calming down tomorrow.  I’m not fishing the next couple days, but sunday/monday I’ll be back and looks like those days will be nicer too before it starts blowing on Tuesday.  Anyways we still had a great day today with plenty of redfish and trout, and a few snook as well as some sharks, mackerel, jacks, ladyfish, and other critters.  0 for 1

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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Got out with return customers Robert and his son Mark today.  They follow me online and knew the tarpon fishing had been decent.  So we decided to focus on that for the beginning of the day.  Conditions had deteriorated however, with a strong 20-25mph wind out of the east – more typical March type weather as we’ve been spoiled by the calm days the last couple weeks.  Anyways that was also coupled with a very weak tidal cycle, so we had nearly 2 hours of no moving water which is never a good thing for trying to catch tarpon.  Anyways we stuck it out, sharks kept us somewhat busy.  Tarpon were around too, so we had hope.  Just hard to get lined up on them, as soon as we stopped it kind of felt like they were going away from us.  We moved 5 or 6 times, and eventually Mark hooked up a nice 85 lber that we landed, so it was all smiles.  The boys wanted some dinner after that, so we hit a nice trout spot.  Very good trout fishing with some nice 25 inch fish mixed in too… great to see.  We decided to try for a snook the last hour of the day, found a handful catching about a half dozen, and a redfish and big snapper to add to the cooler.  All in all not a bad day, just not quite as good as it has been but that good stretch of weather as I said had us spoiled.  Looks like tomorrow will be more of the same… very windy.  But Friday through the weekend it looks like it will be nice again.  I won’t be fishing, but I’ll be back at it sunday after that.  Unfortunately next week as of now, looks like a crazy hard blow out of the north on Tuesday, probably a cold front, and then strong northerly winds after that for a few days.  Back at it tomorrow.  1 for 1

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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