After a nice day off yesterday today I was back at it. I had bait from a couple days ago still on good ice and in good shape. We departed early and got into the backcountry. Fishing a channel, we saw a few fish roll and things looked good. Almost immediatly we were hooked up to a 30 lb tarpon which we landed. After that we put the baits back out, and within a few more minutes we had an 80 lb tarpon on. We had to chase him and we landed him. After that things seemed to slow down and it got very grassy making fishing a little more difficult. We had one more tarpon bite that we jumped off, a smaller fish again. Still saw them rolling, but they did not seem to be as happy. Anyways 2 for 3 in the morning. Plenty of action with redfish and snook later in the day, and also caught a crazy 350+ lb goliath grouper while catching some pilchards. He was laying under the boat!
6/25/14 Everglades tarpon fishing report
Tarpon fished for a bit this morning on our full day trip. Left early at 6 AM and caught a bunch of mullet in the backcountry. We set up in one of the channels. After a little bit we hooked a nice 40 lb tarpon we landed. After that though not much else for tarpon action. Tried one other spots. Plenty of sharks. After that we went snapper and snook fishing and had a great day. Day off tomorrow, woohoo!
6/24/14 Late June Tarpon Fishing in Islamorada
Today I had a nice family out and we gave the tarpon a try for a bit while doing some other things too. I had some mullet from a couple days ago still on good ice and we fished with those. First thing this morning we caught the last bit of outgoing tide. It did not fall as long as I thought it would, but we had a good half hour. Did not really see any fish for sure though and no bites. We did other things that were very productive, lots of trout and snapper, and a bunch of snook we got on some fresh pilchards we caught. Then in the afternoon we gave it a try for tarpon again. I found some mullet but they were tricky to catch so we fished with the last few baits I had and hooked a nice 80 lb fish within 10 minutes. My young angler landed him and that was a great end to the day. Unfortunately he did not cooperate for a boatside picture and I didn’t get any jumping shots.
