Well more tarpon fishing today. Yesterday we did other stuff and had fun with trout, snapper, snook, and other creatures. Today my angler Ian came from Australia with his family, his son Oliver was fishing today too. He had hopes of landing his first swordfish and silver king. Unfortunately swordfishing yesterday they had a fish on the leader within sight and pulled the hook on him. A heartbreaking loss though that is fishing! Anyways we left out early today and caught some bait on the way back. Mostly large black mullets the silvers have thinned out, a few throws and we had 3 dozen baits. We fished off the beaches of the cape and saw tons of fish early. Moved around quite a few times though they were just not biting we saw a few other boats and nobody we saw hooked up. Lots of sharks kept us busy though and Oliver had a great time catching them. We ran further up the beach and found some more fish later on as the tide was quitting. I decided to wait until the tide turned since we had seen fair numbers of fish and eventually we got into a good tarpon bite. Ian caught 2 out of 4 and was thrilled and Oliver landed 15 sharks total. It took some patience but in the end persistence paid off. Sometimes you have to fish all day to get those few cracks at the silver king! A couple days ago we did tarpon fish back there most of the day in the harder southeast wind. We only had 1 bite we missed and lots of sharks. 0 for 1 and 2 for 4
6/22/15 More great june everglades tarpon fishing
We had another stellar day today in the everglades backcountry of islamorada tarpon fishing. Bait was a little tougher today had to throw quite a few times and just pick at them a few at a time. But we got what we needed and I had some leftovers from yesterday. Luckily my anglers showed up extra early so that helped since bait was more difficult! We ran out where we found tarpon yesterday and had the last bit of incoming tide. We had shark activity right away and soon after a nice 40 lb tarpon. We landed him, he fought well though was foul hooked which explained why. After that we set back up and the tide was just slacking and we jumped another fish of about the same size. Once the tide started falling again we had a couple more tarpon bites and landed both those fish, both in the same size range, plus several more sharks including some big blacktips. After that the wind picked up and things seemed to kind of shut down so we tried some other stuff. Finished our day with a few trout and snapper, and about half a dozen snook. 3 for 4
6/21/15 June Tarpon Fishing in Islamorada continues!
More tarpon fishing today we got out at 6 AM nice early start. Caught some bait on the way out. Tried some local channels with the last trickle of incoming tide followed by a quick turnaround of falling tide. Saw some fish but they really didn’t respond, tried a couple places where we saw fish roll and even free jump. After that we ran out off the beaches and found some fish near shore free jumping. We set up and caught some sharks and eventually a nice 35 lb tarpon. After that we moved a few hundred yards down where we saw some fish rolling. Soon we hooked a massive 150 lber that was a battle like none before! The fish dragged us about 4 miles up the beach and then out into the gulf. A school of permit even came up and followed him briefly (we weren’t able to catch any unfortunately). The fish only jumped one when hooked and then just would not give up as we kept heavy drag on him. Eventually we got him to roll over on the leader for pictures and then it was about time to go home. But what a fish and a 2.5 hour battle! We also caught a couple hammerheads and blacktip sharks. 2 for 2
