Got out with Mike and Harry for a full day today. Bait was tough for us we didn’t catch much in the AM but got a handful, and I had a few leftovers from a few days ago. We found some small fish first thing in the AM, had a couple bites out of them but they threw the hook straight away! Also got a big trout, a few sharks, and a bluefish. After an hour or so the tide quit, we tried to catch a bit more bait. It was a struggle but we caught another 8 or so which helped. Next stop it paid off Harry hooked a big 120 lb tarpon we landed on one of them! We moved around a bit more and then had a few more sharks starting to bite. Then Mike had a nice 80 lb tarpon grab a bait but he didn’t stay on the hook for us unfortunately. I was running low on bait again and we looked around one more time but bait just wasn’t very catchable, but one of our sister boats who was also fishing the same party spared us a few extra he had. We ended up getting a big sawfish on one of those baits which was cool! We moved one more time where we had seen a tarpon but no more tarpon bites. Though sharks kept us busy. Back at it tomorrow with these guys hopefully we can get Mike a tarpon! 1 for 4
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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