Yesterday the weather was a treat compared to what we’ve been expereincing on and off with blustery winds and churned up water. It was calm with a slight breeze from the north east. Tarpon tend to shun away when there is any bit of north in the wind but several guides did manage to hook a few fish.

Our tarpon season has been off. Although there are tarpon in the area their behavior is not the same is it has been in recent years. Late March usually marks the time when these fish are laid up in the basins. They tend not to want to move too far until the water temperature is over 75 degrees, some say 78 is the magic number.

Each cool front we get blows these fish off the mark and therefore we’ve been struggling with trying to find them and get them to bite.

Yesterday shed some hope on the situation. Tarpon have to migrate, they’ve done it forever. We just catch a small portion of the stream of fish heading up the Keys and up the coast of Florida.

What does this mean? Possibly an incredible summer of big tarpon.