Capt. Rick Stanczyk's Islamorada Tarpon Fishing

Glenn and Karen had a great time with me yesterday! We focused on tarpon early and had some good luck. Glenn jumped a fish off first thing, then a little later got a nice smaller 40 lber to the boat. After that Karen was up. She landed two 50 lb and 65 lb fish. We also got a tripletail that floated by us. After that the tide slowed down and we switched gears. Found a good school of redfish to keep us busy the next hour. Had a big lemon shark get after them though, but we were able to lock our drags down and keep any more reds from his mouth. We tried one last area for snook before heading home, no luck there but we did get another redfish and a few catfish. Fishing feels like it’s getting a little tougher, bait has gotten a bit more difficult we will likely have to spend some time on that today. But overall still great fishing!  3 for 4

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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Got out with Matt and his sons Aiden and Zack who have fished with me several times of the last few years.  It was Aidens birthday.  First day in the new Contender boat which is in service now!  It proved to be good luck – we found a good group of tarpon to start the day and caught three in the first hour plus a nice tripletail for dinner!  After that we jumped one more and the tide quit.  We tried some other stuff, and caught a redfish and a few jacks and other things.  Then came back to the tarpon grounds for a bit and jumped three more just couldn’t get them to stay on the hook.  Headed in a little early as the boys were getting hot.  But still good action and a great day on the new boat, broke her in right!  I’m off tomorrow, then back at it for the week on Sunday.  3 for 7

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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Last day with the same crew as the previous two days.  We caught 3 tarpon so we had another pretty good day.  All of our action was early in the morning on the falling tide.  Once the tide turned we had one more bite that we missed.  Then didn’t do much for the next couple hours, finally getting zipped by one more before we called it a day.  The sister boat to our trip, Capt. John Johansen, caught one in the morning, then they ended up getting in the right spot and getting three later in the afternoon.  All in all good fishing!  Fishing Friday and then off Saturday, then another week of fishing.  May start mixing it up in the backcountry some, I’ve heard there are a few tarpon back there which is good to hear.  Getting a little tired of the bridge fishing myself and it’s getting crowded for sure!  3 for 5

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