10/11/11 Everglades tarpon action and more!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk fished today with his girlfriend Elizabeth and friend Ron Modra for some islamorada fishing october.  We got a bit of a late start and took time to run around and find some bait.  Could not find pilchards to the north, but did find a few big balls of mullet.  Threw the net on them a few times and got tons of good size small mullet.  Ran in the everglades with those and some shrimp.  Caught a nice snook on first finger mullet out, tried a few other areas around the island but no more luck.  Caught plenty of snappers and jacks though on shrimps.  Went to a tarpon spot and put out some more mullets on the bottom.  Ron caught a nice 80 lb tarpon about 15 minutes later!  Tide quit on us then and it was high noon.  We ran further out to check things out, stopped at a spot.  Very slick calm and beautiful - tarpon everywhere!  Had a couple chase mullets on top, but missed them.  Ron hooked a mystery fish that we could not get off the bottom on a light rod, maybe a juvenile goliath??  Anyways ran into some creek areas after, lots of tarpon in there too and some big schools of mullet they were busting, had another zip us and suck the bait off, and after that decided to call it a day!  I imagine if the mullet stay around, the tarpon will too before it gets cold, so come on down!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
305-747-6903
rick@seethefloridakeys.net
Islamorada Fishing