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Conrgrats to angler Jim catching the first tarpon of 2023 for me!  She was a nice 70 lber that we caught drifting our live pilchards.  Other than that it was a slow day of fishing for us – it’s been a little tough with the weather changes lately and overall a lot of our backcountry fishing just has seen better days.  But definitely still worthwhile and hopefully we’ll be into tarpon season here soon in another month or so.  Anyways if we have warm weather windows tarpon like this are definitely a possibility and the Islamorada Tarpon Fishing crew will be dialed in on them in short order.  As always, if you are wanting straight shooting drop me a line and I’ll give you my best thoughts on if it’s worthwhile targetting tarpon or not.  For the winter time we often catch other fish we use for bait for them so at least you get to bend the rod a little and if nothing else usually catch some big sharks.  Once mullet start showing up in the spring then we usually start catching & using them for bait more.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk

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: Islamorada Tarpon Fishing
: Bud n’ Mary’s Marina
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Well the last week or so there’s been lots of tarpon showing up in the backcountry with the arrival of the Fall mullet run.  Tons of fish in the 40 to 60 lb range with some big bruisers mixed in too.  We fished yesterday and today out there for them and has some good luck.  Yesterday we just fished for a couple hours and landed two nice medium size tarpon and four juveniles in other areas.  It was tarpon action every where we went!  Today we fished a shortened 3/4 day as the boys had to be in by noon, but again good fishing we hooked 6 tarpon and landed 3 as well as some big sharks.  The fish are out there in number and I imagine it will still be productive for at least a couple more weeks and who knows maybe into November if the weather stays warm.  You can check out a couple videos of the last couple days action here and if you are wanting to get out fishing, give me a shout!  If I’m not available I have Capt. Brandon at the ready and he’s dialed in to the tarpon patterns as well.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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There’s been some juvenile tarpon still around lately.  Bait’s been a little difficult to get specifically for just tarpon (mullet) but we’ve been getting shots at some of these smaller guys while we’re snook/redfishing.  On pinfish or pilchards.  Fishing should still be good through the next couple months here and it’s off season so the fishing pressure is low!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
Instagram: @richardstanczyk
Facebook: Islamorada Tarpon Fishing
YouTube: Bud n’ Mary’s Marina