Capt. Rick Stanczyk's Islamorada Tarpon Fishing

Yesterday we caught 2 out of 4 tarpon in the morning.  Last night we caught 2 out of 2.  Much slower fishing in the evening with lots of boat traffic.  Tonight we fished an area that is out of the way of many boaters which worked out well.  Caught 4 tarpon on our evening trip plus a nice bull shark.  Great day on the water!  The may evening tarpon fishing in islamorada should be good the next few days, falling tides into the darkness.  This can be feeding frenzy time.  Fish begin to feed on crabs much more as the mullet thing out – these can be deadly especially fished at dark and after dark!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
305-747-6903
rick@islamoradatarpon.com

Well more good tarpon fishing today.  We caught 2 out of 4 nice size tarpon in the backcountry this morning, plus several blacktip sharks.  Later we did some other stuff such as trout, ladyfish, snapper, etc…  All on fresh dead mullet.  Backcountry tarpon fishing should get better as we get some new arrivals of fish in from the gulf spawn!  Tonight we fished the channel 5 bridge tarpon fishing.  We got a few local resident fish going (smaller guys 30-60 lb).  We only got one to the boat, but we jumped 3 more and also had a few other ‘cheap shots’ where they busted and missed the bait.  Fun action though and any night you get a tarpon is a good one!  The islamorada night tarpon fishing should be good as we have good falling tide in islamorada, the best tide for tarpon fishing.  Yesterday we did not have a good report, a north wind shut many of the backcountry tarpon down and we did not have any bites, not even from sharks… so ended up doing other things that day instead which worked out well!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
305-747-6903
rick@islamoradatarpon.com

Today the fish bit good in the backcountry tarpon fishing.  We caught 4 out of 6 big tarpon in just a couple hours.  All on fresh dead mullet on the bottom.  We also got some sharks and a lot of other fish later in the day as we tried for other stuff since my anglers were tired out!  Good to see hopefully this means more fish making their way to the islamorada tarpon channels.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
305-747-6903
rick@islamoradatarpon.com