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Another day on 🔥 🔥 🔥 for Curtis, Mike, and Connie. They wanted tarpon and we were suppose to fish tomorrow, but with an impending cold front tonight I thought it might be tough duty. Luckily I had today open and we switched days, as today was nice and calm, ideal tarpon condition. We found some fish early and Connie and Mike each caught a nice one. Connie’s was about an 85 lber, and Mike’s was a good 140… Big fat girthy fish! After that we kept moving and found some more tarpon on the incoming tide. Curtis was up and we didn’t get anything on the first stop, but after a move we got lined up right and within 5 minutes he hooked a slob 175 lber! He fought her well and we got her to the boat within 20 minutes. Just a beast of a fish my biggest yet this year. We caught a few tripletails after that. Then Curtis asked about snook. I said we could give it a try I had a few live shrimp. To be honest I thought we may get lucky and catch a little one or too, but we ended up finding a couple hoss fish! He bagged two one 33 incher and one 34, a good 14 and 15 lbs or so. What a way to end the day! Headed on home after that. Winds are gonna kick tonight and it’s suppose to drop to 60 the next couple nights. I’m off tomorrow and then suppose to fish Thursday, and then a couple more off days. Rarely does it work out so perfectly that I avoid the bad condition days normally my days off I wanna be out there! Anyways, might be slow fishing in the backcountry the next couple days definitely a time to listen to your guides recommendation… but hopefully after the weekend things will warm back up and maybe the tarpon will be happier again.  3 for 3

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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Great day with Mike and Sue. We fished for tarpon as I told them it’d been good. We caught the last of the tide, and mike got a big one to start about a 120 lber. Sue was up next and got herself one of similar size. The tide quit and sharks showed up so we moved on. Tried another area and tide was coming in. We jumped another tarpon right away, then a little later Mike hooked another 80 lber that we landed. A few more sharks here too. We decided to call it an early day and got he by noon, always nice! Back at it tomorrow, hopefully the tarpon cooperate. Some cold weather starting tomorrow night, will likely slow the tarpon thing down for a few days.  3 for 4

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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Nice day for Rick and Alan today! They wanted tarpon and o told them it had been a good early start with the season so far. Things were a little slow to start, we had to wait on the tide and not much going on. Found a good pack of tarpon early but the sharks were eating everything we got out there. We moved around and waited for tide. It got going soon enough, but the tarpon just didn’t want to play still! We waited them out and soon enough hooked up. Alan got a nice tarpon to the boat, but he came off on the leader so no pics. After that we hooked another that we got about a 65 lber. After that we got a few more sharks, then Rick had a couple shots but both fish missed the hooks and the baits escaped. Finally his rod went off again with a monster fish about 150 lbs, and Alan hooked one at the same time – double header! We chased Rick’s around and held on to Alan’s, but unfortunately the line snapper on Alan’s, mustve had a knick in it somewhere as it snapped down deep in the spool but we had quite a bit of line out at that point. But we got Rick’s fish. After that things seemed to slow down, we caught a few more sharks and saw some tarpon but they weren’t having any of it. But overall great day with 3 tarpon landed, and first ones for both these anglers. Back at it tomorrow.  3 for 6

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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