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Great day with Jim and his daughter Alex. If was a gorgeous morning nice and calm. Tarpon were around still looked like it’d be a good day with the conditions. We has good fishing though had to work at it a bit, or maybe we’ve just been spoiled by how good it has been. They landed 3 tarpon, all big fish 100+ lbs that took a while. We also jumped off a few others, plus several sharks including some big spinners. We finished up the day with a bunch of trout and a handful of redfish. Looks like winds will pick up tomorrow for a couple days, but hopefully won’t slow the fishing down too much. Back at it manana!  3 for 6

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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Great day with Bernie and Lonny down from Montana. Tarpon was on the agenda and I told the boys we had pretty good fishing yesterday so it looked promising. We headed out early and checked a few spots. Didn’t see a whole lot where we had seen some fish yesterday, so we kept moving. Found the big school we were after and it was game on. Missed quite a few bites, fish were really blowing the bait out as soon as they grabbed it. But we stuck a few, Bernie caught a big 120 lber or so, and then later on close to a 100 lber. Lonny got a couple fish as well, a 75 lber and the another that was close to that size as well. Only got one fish to cooperate for boatside pictures, but that’s how they are sometimes fighters until the end. But plenty more action, including missing a double header. Lots of sharks to keep us busy as well. March fishing had been incredible, shaping up to be one of my strongest Marches ever. Back at it tomorrow!  4 for 10

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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Fantastic day with Kelly, Eric, and Adam. The boys were visiting down from Minnesota. Kelly had wanted to fish with me for a while but I’d always been busy, but today was our day. Tarpon was on the list. Things had warmed up from a few days ago, I hadn’t fished the last couple of days but overall sounded like things rebounded quickly from the drastic weather change. We found tarpon in multiple areas and caught fish in each of them. Eric and Adam each landed a couple, not bad for their first trip tarpon fishing! Kelly had a shot but we missed the bite, but he kept busy with sharks. We had a nice Cobia swim up while fishing, and got a bite out or him but missed the hookup, and tried to chase him down but he sunk out on us. After that the boys wanted to try for some snook. We gave it a go, little bit of an onshore breeze but not too bad. I tried a spot we had luck at last week, and today we were rewarded again! Eric caught a couple nice ones, Adam got one too, but Kelly’s got away unfortunately we pulled the hook. But all the fish weren’t in the 34 inch range very nice snook. Also a redfish and quite a few trout. Just a fantastic day, should continue to be a good week of fishing. Fishing in Islamorada continues to be really good!  4 for 5

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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