Tarpon fishing was good tonight. We had some live mullet. Went down to the big bridges channel 5 and channel 2. Saw fish at both bridges. Fished 5 for a while, no bites just a cheap shot though did see one boat hook a couple fish. After a big nurse shark we moved over to channel 2. Saw fish rolling and on the bottom, very calm with incoming tide and clear water. We set up and soon after they were busting our baits. We had a good 5 or 6 bites and caught 2 nice fish both of 65-75 lbs on the live mullets. That was all between 6:15 PM and 7:45 PM. The last couple days before that fishing has been a little slow, I had a half day we ran in the backcountry channels and caught lots of sharks but no tarpon bites, and the whole day I had before that same thing and we also did some stuff with the light tackle, but the summer time tarpon are not real thick in the everglades channels as of yet. Though they should be coming. Today we fished the gulf and caught big goliaths, bull sharks, cobias, and more. Not sure what I’m doing tomorrow, but a full day maybe tarpon is on the menu!
6/4/14 June Florida Keys Tarpon Fishing Evening
Went out for a 4 hour evening trip tonight, 4 to 8. We caught some fresh mullet for live bait and had a few from the day before. Bait wasn’t easy but we scraped a dozen together. Fishing wasn’t great we had the last of the incoming tide, ran down to ch 2 and it was very weak current. Did not see many fish I spent 15 minutes or so just idling around looking, only a couple rolling and a few on the bottom. We set up for 30 minutes or so, several boats down there, but did not see much action at all. I talked to some other boats, nobody really doing much. So we ran back up near home, tide would be falling good there by now. We set up and within 20 minutes, hooked a nice 75 lb fish. Fought for 30 minutes or so and landed. Caught a couple sharks and that was about it for the evening. Two boat trip for this june islamorada fishing charter. The other guys also landed a tarpon next to us and jumped one other one off.
6/3/14 June Tarpon Fishing Islamorada
Another overcast/rainy type day. We didn’t get too wet though just a light drizzle. We left early again and got a nice 60 lb tarpon right away. After that though things slowed down for us. We had a couple other bites that seemed like tarpon – some very hard drag pulling for 3 seconds and then dropped the baits. Several other boats came into the area today and seemed like everyone got a bite or two. So the fish were pretty spread out. Anyways that was about it for the morning we also did get a big nurse shark. I heard the live bait bite was good down the road and we stocked up on some fresh dead this afternoon, may give that a try tomorrow to do something different!
