4/25/11 Great night fishing tarpon islamorada action!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 08:49AM Capt. Rick Stanczyk brought his father, Capt. Richard Stanczyk Sr., and girlfriend Elizabeth Baxter out for an evening tarpon trip on 4/25/11. Elizabeth hadn't yet caught a large tarpon so we were out to put her on one! We caught some mullet out of a huge ball of bait nearby, big tarpon and purpoises were busting on them which was really exciting to watch! Unfortunately this made fishing nearby pretty tough so we ran down the road to one of Richard Sr's old favorite spots. We had one good bite on a mullet though we missed him just before sunset. We made another drift and ran back towards home to a local channel close by to Bud n' Mary's. We had a bite within 5 minutes on our first drift and Elizabeth caught her first tarpon - a nice 50 lb fish that didn't jump we thought might have been a permit. We made another drift and hooked a larger fish, a nice 90 lber that we were able to keep the light on and see some cool jumps out of! After this we headed home. Fishing was good from sunset on, with the tide running late into the evening.
april, rick stanczyk, tarpon
Reader Comments (1)
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