Well all good things can’t last forever the tarpon fishing has definitely dropped off the last several days in our area of Florida. I had a night trip last night and a trip today we had 1 bite on each trip. Last night unfortunately we did not catch our bite, today we did and we caught a bunch of other stuff including lots of snook, trout, and sharks. But the tarpon you really have to work for and there are only seemingly a handful around. I’ve talked to several guides who are fishing all across the board in Islamorada, the lower keys, and in the everglades and all seem to agree the big bodies of fish have pushed on. Now of course tomorrow that could change and we could get another big push of fish. The summer time fish should settle in more and more, and of course if you get in on a small school of fish early in the morning the action can be hot and heavy. But it definitely takes some work! I’ll be doing some more tarpon tomorrow the good news with my trips is leaving early the bait has been consistent in the backcountry and I have seen a few fish in the main areas I fish so get in on them early with the right bait and you can get a few bites! 0 for 1 and 1 for 1
6/18/15 June Tarpon Fishing Everglades Backcountry
More tarpon fishing again today. Boy how a day can change things! We caught bait early and ran to where we had been catching tarpon very good the last few days. Today though they pulled a disappearing act! We fished for about 1.5 hours out there and just sharks no tarpon bites. I didn’t even see any rolling or anything very strange… Anyways we had weather behind us so after it passed we ran back into the channels where there had been some fish previously. Did not see much on the surface though we did eventually catch a nice blacktip shark there. After 45 minutes a fish started rolling behind the boat and 10 seconds later we had him on – a big 85 lb fish! We landed him and tried one other area for another hour but that was it for the tarpon, just more sharks. Anyways any day you get one is a good day! We finished the day after that catching some trout and snappers for dinner. Have a morning trip and an evening trip tomorrow, I don’t think we are tarpon fishing in the AM but will be tomorrow evening. 1 for 1
6/17/15 June Tarpon Fishing in the everglades stays hot!
Another fabulous day this summer time thing is really something special right now! We had some bait leftover from yesterday and I did catch a handful on the way out. We didn’t leave until 7 I couldn’t get ahold of my people ahead of time they were coming from overseas. But it didn’t stop us we got on the tarpon early and first bait out we had one on within a few minutes! We ended up going 4 for 5 on tarpon in about 2 hours. The tide quit and we decided to try some other things. We chummed up some live baits and then we had some good fishing for snook with a few redfish, trout, and jacks mixed in. A phenomenal day with multiple SLAMS (redfish, snook, tarpon). 4 for 5
