Today we had good bait in the morning and good fishing. Caught about 6 dozen mullet I split with my fellow bait catching buddy. We fished the local channels and fishing was good. Start of the incoming tide and a bit of cloudiness/overcast. We had 5 solid bites and caught 3 fish, mostly fishing dead bait but a good bite on live and another ‘cheap shot’ as well. Fairly big fish 65 – 100 lbs. We fished for about 3 hours until 10:00 or so then it seemed to be over with. Glad to have a multi-fish day again after a little slump for the last week and a half. Yesterday we had a couple bites we only fished for an hour in the morning and I did not have much bait, but we jumped one off on a live bait, and had another on dead bait we chased down but the hook unfortunately seemed to fall out of his mouth. My angler wasn’t able to reel very fast and we ended up with a lot of slack line to the fish. But still had fun anyways and we caught several other things in the backcountry after that.
5/28/14 Afternoon tarpon fishing in Islamorada
Well I got the bad mojo off finally. We caught a nice tarpon this afternoon of 85 lbs or so. Started back around flamingo again in the morning, caught some bait back there. My net got caught on an underground tree limb though, busted a couple brail lines getting it back, but still in one piece and had some mullet in it! Anyways we tried for tarpon back there for an hour in the morning, saw a few but no bites but did catch a couple of big rays. After that we bent the rod a bit with some trout and ladyfish. Then we ran back towards islamorada and caught the tide change. We caught a few big jacks, had a couple great barracuda bites, and then finally hooked into a nice tarpon that we landed. I heard the fish around town were a little more active this morning too, going to look for bait early and probably stick it out around the local areas if I can load up with mullet tomorrow.
5/26/14 + 5/27/14 Tarpon Fishing Report
Went into the backcountry the last couple days. We had a mixed bag of action each day. We did a little tarpon fishing in the mornings back there. Found a few schools of fish in some of the channels near flamingo. They weren’t very active but we did get a bite out of them each morning, unfortunately though they both came off the hooks. Plenty of action with sharks in the other channels though and as I said good mixed bag of action with other species such as trout, snook, snapper, and more. I heard some tarpon bit around town here in Islamorada this afternoon on the falling tide, may be focusing more on the tarpon again if they are getting a little more active after the lull we’ve had!
