Weather Tarpon

 The last month or so we has had some rain than normal and along with the rain is a classic to have our big tarpon very active. For the last 18 years I had fish the lagoons as professional guide I had seen this tarpon getting very active on the rainy season or late Sept-Oct and early Nov. Last year the first monster was guiding Petter Debon and Sabrina were she hook a tarpon over 140-150 lbs on fly rod and pull the hook…22 days after we were able to hook and land a tarpon on the 150 with Mike Mazur from Sport Fishing Mag. This year we are able to guide customers on up to 6-8 tarpon on the 60 to 100 pound range on the boat WITH UP TO 18 BITES OF BIG TARPON on 1/2 day or 4 hours all on live bait. When the rain stop over some consecutive days we are able to spot nice size frenzies on the peak tides. This frenzies or blitz can produce average of 10 to 20 bites landing 8 to 12 tarpon on the 10 to 40 pound range wich are perfect fish for 8 pound test and 6wt fly rod. We also have a good number of snook were the average size is 2-10 pounds and some 12 to 15 pounder has been report by other charter boats that like to spend more time on the snook.  

Off shore, the blue marlin season has been slower than last year but enough to keep customers busy. The first couple of mahi-mahi are showing under floating debris, weed lines, empty buckets, wooden logs etc. Along with this small mahi-mahi we can experience some big blue marlin still around, not big numbers of them but big ones since the water still on the low 80s we still have time to nail a fish over 700 pounds. This year a hand full of boats land big blue marlin and I don’t think any boat this year land more than one or two fish over 500 pounds. Last year some charter boats land more than one 700 pounder contrary form this year. This year First Lady land only 2 nice size blue marlin one about 450 and another one about 500, but the average were around 150-250. All the lures we drag this year were Top Guns and Bart Millers. This is the last couple of weeks were we will use the guns or the 80 pound test and keep a combination of lures and ballyhoo for mahi-mahi, wahoo and sailfish that has been report by some recreational fisherman. We still have plenty of  days open for tarpon fishing in the back country and off shore for blue marlin, sailfish, tuna, nahi-mahi and wahoo.