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3/13/14 Backcountry Fishing Report

 | By Seamus on 3/13/2014 3:25:58 AM | Views (64)

We are about to get another mild front, wind was blowing west yesterday and north today.  The temperature hadn't dropped yet so the fishing was pretty good today.  Tonight it is suppose to get down to 60 or so, which may slow things down a bit especially for tarpon.  The past few days I've had good reports.  Capt. John Johansen had reported great action throughout the day and good tarpon/shark action in the afternoon on the 10th.  Capt. Skip Nielsen has been catching several tarpon as well.  He had Brandt Snedeker, pro golfer, fishing for tarpon.  He released two big ones.  Scott Braco and Steve Arch fished the patches out front and had good action, plus both released nice size permit!  Dick Alt and Frank Vecella each released tarpon as well.  Capt. Jim Willcox had reported some redfish and snook activity in the everglades today, and the other day he had a nice size goliath grouper and mud marlin.  Capt. Ben Ekblom has been having some tarpon activity around town here too fishing mullets.  He fished several evenings ago and caught a monster tarpon pictured below!  Capt. Bill Bassett also had big mud marlin two days last week, both caught on the bayside of channel 2 oddly enough.  He also had some nice mangrove snappers and variety of other fish.  Capt. Ken Cohan had two nice tarpon close to home yesterday afternoon.  Myself I've been focusing on tarpon.  We caught 2 nice fish today with the north wind.  Yesterday we went 3 for 8, and the day before that we caught 2 out of 3.  The fishing has been good and mullet have been around so that helps.  The past couple days we also hit the patch reefs midday, and caught plenty of mangrove snappers for dinner and a few nice hogfish each day as well!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk

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Catch Information

Species:
Goliath Grouper
Goliath Grouper

Gray Snapper
Gray Snapper

Hogfish
Hogfish

Red Drum
Red Drum

Snook
Snook

Tarpon
Tarpon

This Fishing Report was submitted on 3/13/2014 3:25:58 AM by Seamus and last updated on 3/16/2014 3:25:58 AM.


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79851 Overseas Highway
Islamorada, FL US


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