Capt. Rick Stanczyk's Islamorada Tarpon Fishing

Lots of fun with Tom and Tommy today! We chased tarpon early on, found a good handful in some channels. Had to work at it but we managed to fool a couple and both of them caught one! Nothing huge but a 25 and 40 lber. Also got a big lemon shark. After that the tide quit and we decided to keep moving. Tried an area where we found some redfish yesterday, but today they weren’t home. We did see some big bait schools so we trolled in there and did catch a half dozen trout, including a couple Whoppers for Tom Sr. After that we ran further in the Backcountry. Had to work at it and move around a lot but we got into some decent snook, catching maybe 10 or so. Also about a half dozen redfish. So both the boys slammed out! It was fun and one of those days where we weren’t crushing ’em but putting in the work paid off. Makes you appreciate them more! Off for a couple days and the I’ll be back at it Sunday!  2 for 2

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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Great day 2 with Carlos and Alan. We mixed it up again and had good action with everything we tried. Tarpon fished early, didn’t get any hits but we did get some sharks and 5 tripletail. Even had a big one eat a tarpon bait but we pulled the hook. After that we hit a redfish hole and it was loaded, we lost count in a short amount of time. After that we found some more tarpon and had a couple shots, hooking one that broke us off and another we landed. Then later we found a nice goliath grouper, a big snook, and had a big Cobia on for a few that cut us off as well. We tried some tarpon areas again on the way home, didn’t seem like it would happen but then we had a bite from a big 100 lber! Unfortunately she didn’t stay buttoned. All in all a great day though got to see some really cool stuff!  1 for 3

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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Got out with Kiff and Alan today for a full day trip.  Tarpon was on the list so we gave it a go.  We happened to see some tarpon on our way into the backcountry, and stopped and set up on them.  Jumped one right away and then got a few sharks.  We had several moving by us for about 20 minutes, it looked good…  But nothing happened.  We were about to leave when we hooked a nurse shark, and then after we landed him the other rod went off and Kiff hooked a nice 70 lb tarpon!  We landed that one and got some pictures, mission accomplished!  After that we jumped around trying a few other areas in there but seemed like it was over.  We finished the day doing other stuff, struggled a little to get on a good bite but we put a good catch together overall with about 16 redfish, a few snook, some trout, a tripletail, and a few other odds and ends.  1 for 2

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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