The april islamorada tarpon fishing bite has continued to stay strong throughout the month. We’ve been catching fish on every trip really. I think I only had one trip where we fished a half day due to a cold front and caught fish on the patches, only giving the tarpon a try for the last hour, where we did not hook at least one tarpon. And only one other trip where we did not land a tarpon (we had two tarpon break us off in the bridges). That’s great fishing! We average probably two fish landed a trip, when you average the good ‘banner’ days where we release 3, 4, or more. We’ve had a share of 1 fish landed trips in early april as we had a bit of a lull in the numbers of tarpon around, though the last week we’ve seen plenty more show up. I think we had such a good early start that fish showed up strong in february and march, leading to a lull in early April which is traditionally considered ‘peak’ season. Every year is different but like I said the last week seems to have seen big numbers around town again. The backcountry has been a little slow with the tarpon since the last front, but they can show back up there any time again too I think when the wind stops blowing and some of the nasty ‘red weed’ that has been plaguing us back there dissipates. Look for May to be stay strong that is often the best month of the year for tarpon and the weather stays consistently warm. Summer can be very good too, last year July was just about as consistent as April with the early mornings being very good in the backcountry as well as good fishing around town on the evening trips with much less pressure on the fish since it is a bit slower with business and boats then. I have some evenings available over the next couple months, just about every day is booked until June, but tarpon is what I’m doing and if your looking to catch one now is the time!
April 2014
4/3/14 April Islamorada Tarpon Fishing Report
It’s April and the tarpon have made their presence known here in Islamorada and throughout the Florida Keys. Islamorada tarpon fishing is the big thing here for the next several months. We’ve had a great early season and the weather is now really getting right for a big month in April. Plenty of big schools of baitfish (mullet) have been showing up, several big ‘balls’ of thousands at a time that we use for bait. The last few days I’ve been having great action fishing live mullet for tarpon. We’ve had 6 fish to the boat in the last 3 trips, and over another fifteen or so that didn’t quite make it there! Lots of other fish boiling, flashing, and busting the baits that weren’t hooked too. It’s game on here for april tarpon fishing in Islamorada. The fishing should only get better. I’m booked most every day but I do have evening trips available that go from 4 to 8 PM so check with me. It is a great time to go after big tarpon and the bite around sunset usually goes off! You can see from the pictures below we’ve been having wild action the last month, and as stated before April only gets better. The weather usually stabilizes and the big schools of migrating fish show up along with the schools of mullet. It’s a mixture for tarpon craziness that you don’t want to miss! Drop me a line lets get you hooked up to the fish of a life time!