Well we’re in the midst of summer and getting to the real dog days here where its starting to get hot! Honestly though it’s not all that bad on the water most days as long as you have a little bit of a breeze. Also we like to leave the dock plenty early to get our fishing in before the heat gets to you. So we have had a much better summer of tarpon fishing compared to the earlier spring time of March/April. May and June got much better and July has overall been really good too. The last couple of weeks there have been a fair number of tarpon out in the backcountry. I’ve had several banner days with double digit bites so about as good as you could ask for. Though I also did have one day where the tarpon were there they just weren’t biting in the window we were fishing. That day it was a bit windier and we had falling tide and just tried all we could to get them to react but not much. Finally at the end of that trip I gave it an extra 30 minutes once the tide started in and we did definitely jump one fish and possibly had another bite but neither of them stayed connected for us. Unfortunately that’s how fishing goes and I always tell people I do what I can which this time of year means leaving the dock early, either already having or spending time catching fresh bait, running far and timing the tides as best we can where we fish. But overall it’s not a bad time to come and hopefully August and September will continue producing for us. There have been some big snook in the mix too we were catching some back in June randomly while tarpon fishing several days. I’ve actually tried targeting them in the last couple of weeks with my dad and we had luck on both days catching 3 each day and that is of course of those size L and XL fish. I actually caught one myself that may have been the biggest I’ve ever landed and I think was close to 30 lbs. If you want to get out in the next couple of months shoot me an email I definitely will have some time in August available as well as in September. September we are offering discounts too and barring any hurricanes that is often a great time of year to fish.
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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