Back at it again today i had the same crew from a couple days ago. We had bait stocked up from the other day and went right to the channels we found fish in the other day. We fished for about 30 minutes but did not see much for signs of life, no bites. Though I did see what I thought was possibly a few fish splashing a couple hundred yards up the channel. We idled up there and set up and sure enough saw a few fish start to roll around us. We hooked a fish soon after though unfortunately jumped him off, then about 10 minutes later we hooked one that we landed. While fighting him we did hook another one and briefly had a double header hooked up, though the 2nd one got away. After that the fish seemed to quit, we saw them busting out at the end of the channel where we started, so I moved back up there, but they seemed to be on their way out, no other action. We checked around a couple other spots, rain was a factor so we didn’t fish one area. We then headed near flamingo to try some areas and set up, within 20 minutes we saw a big fish roll, and about 10 minutes later we hooked him. A nice fish about 100 lbs he put on a very good fight. We had one other possible bite, something picked up a bait and dropped it. After that we moved out front to catch the start of the incoming tide. We set up and fished the last hour, had one good bite we are not sure what it was, and about 10 minutes before we left a tarpon came up behind the boat rolling, but we never hooked him and that was the last of our bait and time to go home. Anyways landing a couple tarpon in September is a great day! 2 for 4
September 2015
9/10/15 September Tarpon Fishing in the Florida Keys
Fished a full day today. I had told my clients that fishing has been a little tough for tarpon so we originally had plans to try some other stuff. I ran into the backcountry and tried chumming some live bait in a channel and while doing that, of course we started to see several tarpon roll in the channel. We caught plenty of small live pinfish though I knew mullet would probably be preferential for the tarpon. The guys were asking me about catching them so I said lets take a quick look and see if we can’t find some mullet. Luckily enough out off the bank we came across a ball of bait, no birds on them or anything but it was calm enough to see them rippling on the surface. I made a few throws and we caught got a good crack on caught a cooler full. We went back and caught the last trickle of falling tide, and within 5 minutes hooked a nice 50 lb fish that we fought for 20 minutes and Eric landed. After that we set back up, still saw a few fish rolling and the tide was ripping in now. Though no bites we moved around a few times, but the big herd of fish we saw an hour before seemed to have moved out with the tide. We still saw a handful roll here and there, but did not have any other bites. We finished the day trying to catch some snook, no luck with that but we did have one baby tarpon we pulled the hook on, then caught a half dozen nice snappers and a few trout for dinner to finish our day, plus some big ladyfish. I’m fishing these guys again Saturday, I kept plenty of bait on ice so we will be fully prepared first thing in the AM. Hopefully they are still there. If you are looking to go fishing, there are still shots at tarpon through September however bait is often the tough thing to find. However next Wednesday or so we will have good ‘incoming’ morning tides that make bait more consistently easy. 1 for 1
9/6/15 September Florida Keys Tarpon Fishing
Fished today and gave the tarpon a try. Bait was OK this morning but will probably be tough for the next week again or so as we have falling tides in the early morning. That has been much more difficult for the bait catching. Anyways we fished around flamingo tried some different channels from yesterday first thing. No love again not even any shark bites, the sharks are few and far between too. We then ran and fished the same channel I tried yesterday which had been good a couple weeks ago. We fished hard and after 20 minutes or so we finally go our bite and Steve landed a nice 60 lb tarpon. That was it though no more tarpon or shark bites, did not see much rolling or any other signs of life. We decided to finish the rest of the day with trout and snapper on the light rods. That fishing was very good. 1 for 1
