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June 12TH Fishing Report

Tarpon fishing has continued to be very productive this week! We have been fishing the schools of tarpon that are moving down the beach and also catching fish in the evenings around the passes using live shinners and crabs for bait. The full moon tides this week have been awesome and it sure made the tarpon very hungry! Clients have been hooking and boating several fish a trip in the 80-130 LB weight class. Bob from California, caught the fish of the week on Tuesday evening, an estimated 180 LB tarpon on 30 LB test line! Bob fought the fish for 55 Mins and it pulled us 2 miles out into the gulf!

I did not fish for tarpon today, instead my clients wanted to fish the flats for snook, reds and trout. We did very good on catch and release snook (they are out of season right now) and we also limited out on trout in the 15-22 IN range. The redfish still have not shown up in large schools, but we did manage to catch 2 keepers, 22 & 26 IN. If you are interested in going fishing, Capt. Craig can be reached anytime at (941) 812-1402.