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We've had some gorgeous weather the last couple days it has laid out flat calm and we are on a warming trend. This will be good for the tarpon there are some fish starting to show up now. A few were caught today though it isn't red hot yet, the water temperatures are still in the low 70 degree range in the backcountry and getting in the mid 70s in Islamorada, so a few degrees warmer should get the fish much happier and they should really start showing strong. Today we had good action in the gulf with sharks, cobia, tripletail, and drum. Capt. Jeff Beeler reported some nice tarpon action on artificial landing a nice one plus some snook and tripletail. Capt. John Johansen caught a nice big tarpon today as well. Capt. Bill Bassett had some decent mackerel fishing and caught some nice sharks in the afternoon. Yesterday we had one of the best fishing days I've personally had in my life. We ran way out in the gulf looking for tripletails and we had some good success. Later in the morning we came across a huge ball of gigantic redfish it was unbeleivable seeing the school of them in the water. Anyways we set the boat up and tossing a simple shrimp and jig rig, we landed double digit bull reds in the 20 to 35 lb range in about two hours! Simply phenomenal I've caught a handful of big reds but never more than one or two in a trip and they are definitely a rarity here. We also landed a nice 15 lb snook. It was the type of thing you dream about and I am grateful to have experienced it. The day before we landed 1 nice red like that, but that was it, and we did catch plenty of nice tripletail that day as well. The forecast looks great for the weekend looks like calm weather though next week it may pick up a bit. Should be a great weekend for fishing so get on down here spring time is here! 305-664-2461
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
This Fishing Report was submitted on 3/3/2016 2:35:59 AM by Seamus and last updated on 3/4/2016 2:35:59 AM.
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