Today we fished back in the glades. Suppose to be a full day trip but the rain chased us in early. We caught mullet and fished a close by channel. A few shark bites and then a nice size 90 lb tarpon. Great show and crazy jumps. We landed him and set back up. Tide was about ready to quit, a few more shark bites and we moved. Ran further to the west where the tide was already going out now. A little choppy, hard moving tide right into a westerly breeze. The tropical storm off the east coast of florida is sucking the weather that way. We had another tarpon bite there and caught a couple more sharks but the tarpon got away. Then the lightning chased us back towards home. We tried a couple spots without much luck, then in the last spot we were about to head in early and we had a bite! Another nice size 80 lb tarpon. Put on a good show we got him to the boat and then popped him off, right before the rain started to get us again. So 2 for 3 not too shabby.
7/1/14 July Islamorada Tarpon Fishing Report
Well July is here and I had an evening tarpon fishing trip tonight. I caught some mullet this morning, they are not very easy to find especially locally around islamorada. But I was lucky and loaded up on them. Anyways we ran down the way to Ch 5 and Ch 2 but not much action down there. We fished a couple spots for a while, and looked at a few other spots. Falling tide and west wind, kinda strange wind this time of year. But I did not see a fish roll nor did I see any laid up on the bottom on the other spots I skimmed by. We ran back near home and fished some mullets and soon we had a nice fish on of 80 lbs or so. He would not give up and we had him on the leader several times, trying to break his will to get a good picture, but he eventually got us into some structure under one of the bridges and cut us off. We went back and soon hooked another tarpon. Now its about 7:30 and we fought him and leadered him too. I thought he would cooperate better but alas he popped off too. Oh well we caught 2 out of 2 which for right now is not bad. There aren’t a whole lot of fish around locally seems the big schools of migrators have moved on. Maybe we will get some more? Though local fish can still be good through into August. I’m pretty much done with night trips I have one more later this week and that will be about it for me. I may open up a few nights for short notice trips when I have plenty of bait from the previous day. But it’s been a long and busy season. Anyways drop me a line if your interested in going, if I’m not available I work with several other great tarpon fishing guides in the islamorada area.
6/28/14 Islamorada June Tarpon Fishing Report Backcountry
The boys were with me again today with dad. We caught mullet first thing in the AM. Ran out west to where the tarpon had been. We had action early and caught 1 out of 3 tarpon. Also got a nice hammerhead and large bull shark. After that we tried some other things without much luck. The right size pilchards were tough to find, and looked for permit for a bit but did not see any. So we tried for tarpon again for the last hour and got another nice one of 75 lbs or so. 2 for 4 on the day!
