Back to tarpon fishing today. We caught mullet in the backcountry around some islands first things. Got a good crack on them about 4 dozen or so. We fished a channel close by, tide had just started in. We saw a few fish roll and after a little bit we were hooked up. We caught 2 out of 4 fish, mostly smaller fish in the 30-40 lb range, but a tarpon is a tarpon! We got some sharks too. After that we caught some dinner, mangrove snappers, and some more sharks. We tried another channel for the last hour and got a nice big tarpon of almost 100 lbs, plus a couple big sting rays. Nice end to the day, 3 for 5 tarpon. The summer everglades tarpon fishing is getting better.
6/20/14 June Backcountry Tarpon Report
Well tried to mess with the tarpon this morning in the backcountry. We caught some mullet early and ran a bit to some further channels that had supposedly been good the last few days. We did not see much, we did hook 1 tarpon we lost pretty quickly. Though we had a great day after that catching a couple big sawfish, goliath groupers, and plenty of snook, redfish, trout, snapper, and sharks. Tomorrow I’m doing the snook and redfish thing probably not tarpon fishing. We did fish last night and it was tough, weak incoming tide with clear water, we had 1 bite we missed, and then when the tide turned and things looked good the rain came and chased us in.
6/17/14 Backcountry Tarpon Fishing in June
Rainy day but we caught mullet first thing in the backcountry. Set up in the channels and saw a few fish rolling. Last of the incoming tide. Finally got a bite though it took a little bit, caught a nice 30 lb tarpon and a few sharks. After that we bent the light rods – trout and nice snappers, and finished our day with about 20 snook.
