6/30/15 End of June backcountry fishing report
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 at 03:21PM June is about officially over. Boy it feels like summer time the last couple days have been as hot as it gets. Very light southwesterly winds and water temperatures up to 92 degrees in some areas. Luckily the fishing has still been pretty good. Tarpon are still being found back in the everglades and a few around town. Plenty of sharks mixed in. Capt. John Johansen and Capt. Rick Stanczyk have both reported good tarpon action in the backcountry. Capt. Mark Hlis has reported seeing some bonefish while sightfishing around Islamorada. Damian White of Tampa sight fished a nice 10 lb bonefish out of a pack of 20 or so. Capt. Skip Nielsen last week reported some good tarpon action in the backcountry. He also had some good snook fishing with Steve Kost catching a nice one on fly, and Dave Kubert landing several on ultra light tackle. Capt. Perry Scuderi has had a few tarpon close to home as has Capt. Mike Venzia in the last week. Capt. Bill Bassett reported a big day a few days ago, with several mud marlin, a big cobia, sharks, and a couple tarpon. There has been good trout and snapper action in the bays out closer to the gulf. The deeper, cooler water seems to be providing better action this time of year drifting the grass beds and potholes. I'll be out of town for a week or so but fishing is pretty good right now, summer time can be 'hot fishing!'
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