7/22/11 Islamorada night tarpon fishing

Capt. Rick Stanczyk fished a later evening trip last night, 5:30 to 9:30, for some florida keys tarpon fishing.  The bite was ok we had 3 for sure tarpon bites, and one other possible one.  We jumped the first two off, couldn't keep them on.  The 3rd we fought for a bit, got near the boat, and he took off again and unfortunately wrapped us up around another guide who was fighting a shark.  But we got him up and got a good look at him at least, plus some nice jumps!  Also had a couple shark bites.  Once it got near dark we began drifting crabs.  Rick ran to the other side of the basin and put them out and instantly a nice permit swam right up to the bait and inhaled it.  10 minutes later Glen Gilmore got this nice permit, close to 20 lbs!  Glen really wanted to catch a permit so it worked out great for us!