Capt. Rick Stanczyk's Islamorada Tarpon Fishing

Sorry haven’t had time to post – been too busy catching big tarpon fishing islamorada in april!  Last couple of night trips we boated 2 fish each, 6 bites in 2 hours a couple nights ago and came in early… then last night 8 bites.  We would of caught 3 last night IF you counted the fish that jumped and landed on the bow of my boat, luckily to flop right back in the water and break off.  Hey that’s getting him ‘in the boat’ right, a standard catch for most anglers?  LOL!  The day before yesterday we caught 1 out of 2 fish early, and did some other stuff since I had the guys fishing for tarpon the next couple of days – including big sharks, ‘sea monsters’, and trout.  Today we capped off their 3 day adventure with a bang.  Backcountry tarpon fishing in islamorada we landed 6 big fish all over 100 lbs out of 13 bites of big fish in the air flying.  You don’t get much better fishing than that for florida keys tarpon fishing!  If your wanting to go I have some evenings available  though every day is booked the rest of this month and most of May.  However the evenings can be very, very good for big tarpon!

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

april islamorada jumping tarpon

Today the fishing was much better than yesterday for the big backcountry tarpon fishing charters.  We ran back into the everglades where we had hooked a fish yesterday.  Very early the end of the falling tide was fishable – none of the red nasty weed that was balling up yesterday all over every bait making it unfishable.  We caught 2 out of 4 big tarpon, plus a few other sharks and such.  The everglades tarpon fishing should hopefully continue to be good through the week, however the falling water and first of the incoming tide are a must with the nasty, red weed that is coming in from the gulf.  These bad boys all ate dead mullet on the bottom.

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

tarpon jumping

Had an early morning trip this morning going after some tarpon fishing islamorada.  We hit some of the local bridges which often hold fish year round, though in the spring are home to many migrating fish as well.  We did some channel 5 bridge tarpon fishing.  The tide was incoming all morning, we left at 6 AM and hit it early.  No bites in the darkness surprisingly.  Moved around once we could see a bit and found some fish rolling at some other pilings. We had 3 bites on live mullets on the surface though weren’t able to drive the hooks into any of them.  No bites on the bottom baits, and a couple other bust the mullets and miss them.  The tarpon have been around though appears to be mostly local fish.  Though now that the weather is stabilizing I imagine a lot of migrators should show up!

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