Capt. Rick Stanczyk's Islamorada Tarpon Fishing

The paola worm hatch went off on the end of the falling tide late this afternoon.  From 3 to 5 PM or so down by channel 5 bridge, craig key area of islamorada.  We were fishing by channel 2 and had some good action.  2 drifts with live mullet and 2 big tarpon hooked right in the same spot.  Both fish had a couple other ‘followers’ smaller fish that tagged along while we fought the other.  Pretty cool.  After we landed the 2nd it was pouring rain and lightning, so we hid under the bridge for 30 minutes until we had a window to run home in. Made it back safely –  another good night tarpon fishing in the florida keys!

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

Well we are supposedly in for more rain and have had a bit the last couple days.  Very unusual weather for june these prolonged rainy days.  Today we tarpon fished all day and saw plenty of fish though they were not biting well.  We did catch 1 nice 100 lb fish on dead bait and had a another solid bite on a bottom rod that we are not sure what it was but likely a tarpon as it just scaled the mullet.  We had a few ‘cheap shots’ on surface live mullets but never got the actual bait.  Yesterday I did not tarpon fish but the day before we did give it an hour in the morning before doing other stuff and did get about a 60 lb tarpon to start the day again on dead bait.  Right now the best bet for tarpon fishing in islamorada is catching the falling tide either later in the evening (from 7:00 on) or early in the morning (before day break).  I am pretty booked up through June though have some evenings available and a handful of mornings.  July can still be great tarpon fishing if your interested in tarpon fishing in July drop me a line.  I am not fishing every day then so I am open to doing later evenings or early morning trips to get you on the ‘hot bite.’

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

Well we have had a lot of rain the last few days so I haven’t gotten out much.  A couple days ago we did stick locally and didn’t get rained on too much.  Ended up catching 1 nice big tarpon which we fought a while on a dead mullet.  Tonight is the first trip i’ve had since then and we got 2 80 lb tarpon again on dead bait.  Not much was going on with the livies nor on the crabs, though we had rain this morning and a nice late afternoon/evening until around 7:15 when the big rain rolled in.  We decided to pack it in at this point having caught 2 fish already.  Looks like the rain will start to clear somewhat tomorrow and much lighter winds too, hooray!  Looking forward to some june islamorada fishing for tarpon.

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