May 2013

Well more good tarpon fishing today.  We caught 2 out of 4 nice size tarpon in the backcountry this morning, plus several blacktip sharks.  Later we did some other stuff such as trout, ladyfish, snapper, etc…  All on fresh dead mullet.  Backcountry tarpon fishing should get better as we get some new arrivals of fish in from the gulf spawn!  Tonight we fished the channel 5 bridge tarpon fishing.  We got a few local resident fish going (smaller guys 30-60 lb).  We only got one to the boat, but we jumped 3 more and also had a few other ‘cheap shots’ where they busted and missed the bait.  Fun action though and any night you get a tarpon is a good one!  The islamorada night tarpon fishing should be good as we have good falling tide in islamorada, the best tide for tarpon fishing.  Yesterday we did not have a good report, a north wind shut many of the backcountry tarpon down and we did not have any bites, not even from sharks… so ended up doing other things that day instead which worked out well!

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

Today the fish bit good in the backcountry tarpon fishing.  We caught 4 out of 6 big tarpon in just a couple hours.  All on fresh dead mullet on the bottom.  We also got some sharks and a lot of other fish later in the day as we tried for other stuff since my anglers were tired out!  Good to see hopefully this means more fish making their way to the islamorada tarpon channels.

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

Well the may florida keys tarpon fishing in islamorada hasn’t been easy as of late.  Today the bait was very tough not even our live bait delivery guys found many of them.  The tarpon bite was also on the slow side however we did catch 1 out of 3 fish, a big 150 lb slob that we fought for 1.5 hours so that made the day!  Yesterday we caught 4 out of 5 smaller tarpon in the 30 to 60 lb range which was great all in the morning on live mullet.  We also caught a nice 80 lb fish last night on an evening trip, though again not much action there a few ‘cheap shots’ where fish busted on the mullets but only that one real bite which we landed luckily.  If the weather stays nice like this the tarpon fishing in islamorada should improve and hopefully more migrating fish will show up.  As of now it seems many of the migrators have left many of the local islamorada spots anyhow, definitely not seeing the numbers we were a few weeks ago though a nasty west wind/cold front can make those fish move on!  However still big tarpon to be caught!

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