Well had Friday off for some boat maintenance and then I fished yesterday morning but not for tarpon just trout, snapper, etc… Though last night I went out with a few friends for a couple hours and we tarpon fished. Luckily during the day yesterday we ran across a big ball of mullet and I was able to put a few away. Last night we fished close by, sharks were pretty active the first hour and then we hooked a nice 50 lb tarpon Virginia caught. Good battle on lighter tackle. We fished another hour but things died down no more bites or activity and came in. Today I had a full day in the backcountry I had some bait to start with and we tried some channels where I hadn’t fished lately. Flat calm today we saw plenty of porpoises in there and a few tarpon rolling around. Tide was slack though once it started to trickle in we had a bite and caught a nice 40 lb fish. After that the fish seemed to have moved on we only saw one more roll and then they quit. We caught a few more baits the same ball we had seen the day before. Tried the beaches and saw more fish out there then I had seen the last week but they did not want to cooperate. We moved around several times and saw a couple jumpers and a handful rolling around but just sharks, though we did get 4 hammerheads which was cool. After that I tried another area and we saw tarpon there too, again moved around to get in front of them a few times, but no bites. We finally tried again close to home and even saw a couple tarpon there roll eventually but still no bite. Anyways good to see fish around in several different areas, they will start feeding again at some point! 1 for 1 and 1 for 1
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
