Tough day for us today we got out early and I had a little bait left over. Was hoping to get some more on the way back. I checked further to the west where there had been some in the afternoons, but we did not see much at all this morning. So I ran off the beaches where we had good fishing a few days ago. Today it was ghost town however we did not even have a shark bite. Moved around 3 different times and fished it pretty hard. When I was just about out of bait we saw a free jumping fish about a 100 yards out but didn’t have the bait to go try to fish there. Anyways we spent a good amount of time after that looking for bait to no avail. The falling tides have been very hard for bait, there was some mullet around but way up on the flat where I couldn’t get to them, and as soon as the boat got within 100 feet they were scattering. We gave up on the tarpon and tried to catch some smaller stuff, but even those fish didn’t want to cooperate. We caught a handful of snappers and then called it a day. Can’t catch ’em every day! 0 for 0
8/12/15 Florida Keys Tarpon Fishing in August
Had Michael and Steven out again from yesterday. Today they wanted to try for some snook so tarpon wasn’t really on the game plan. But that didn’t stop us from catching one! We were chumming some bait in one of the channels and saw some tarpon rolling along the edge nearby. I had some bait leftover from yesterday and we put a couple out while we continued to chum and catch bait. Soon Michael had a nice 50 lb fish hooked up! Fishing lesson #1 – Always be prepared! After that we had a good day catching the boys their first snook among several others, and some nice mangrove snappers for dinner! 1 for 1
8/11/15 August Everglades Tarpon Fishing Report
Got out extra early this morning my people showed up a little after 5:30 and I was ready so off we went in the dark. Made it back around the flamingo area. Tried to catch some bait and I got stuck by a catfish early on… not good, very painful and even passed out for a few seconds. After a half hour or so I felt much better and was able to catch some bait in another spot about 3 dozen or so. We set up in the channels nearby for the last of the falling tide. Hooked and got leader on a small 30 lb fish. Then caught several sharks and a big ray. Saw one other fish roll but no other bites. Around 9:00 or so we headed out further west to catch the start of the incoming tide. It was smoking when we got there and saw plenty of fish rolling around. It was instant action we jumped two fish off right away, then we caught the next 3 including a double header. We jumped off a couple others, then landed another one. Then moved over a little bit and hooked another double header though one came off, and we landed the other. It was insane action as good as it gets here august tarpon fishing in Islamorada. Unfortunately I didn’t get many pictures as the action was so hot and heavy, though hopefully my guys will send me a few of them. Tomorrow I got the same guys again we may try some snook fishing, but have some leftover bait in case we want to try the tarpon again. 6 for 11
