Tarpon in assorted sizes have been in the area in fairly large numbers. We haven’t been getting much cooperation out of the larger fish that are in good sized groups out along the beach, have only gotten a handful of strikes and put a couple in the air, but that’s tarpon fishing. But anytime you have a six foot long fish in your sights, the adrenaline gets pumping pretty good. The little guys inside the ICW have been consistently eating though for anyone who really wants to get one. Been able to get some snook chummed up, but like everything else, they’re really not chewing well yet. A few king mackerel are being caught, and there are some truly huge jack crevalle cruising the bait schools out along the beach. The only really hot action recently has been provided by the false albacore. This past Sunday they put on a spectacular show, there were albies crashing the surface as far as the eye could see. It looked like a hail storm with ten pound hail stones hitting the surface! Flying fish running for their lives, big head wakes right under them. And when the flyer touched down, boom! I had a couple of really die hard anglers out, Andy and Carlos from Pittsburgh, Pa. for four days. And after some less than cooperative weather and lackluster fishing, these guys really made up for it on Sunday. We fished until the t-storms really got going late in the afternoon. I think they boated better than forty albies between the two of them, with nothing under ten pounds and the big fish of the day being a massive seventeen pounder. That’s only a pound off the world record. Yesterday, the albies weren’t quite as wild, but it was still fish at will. And we boated an even larger albie which I didn’t weight. I was getting worried that the albies weren’t going to put in an appearance like normal this year. They are only about a month late showing up in numbers. Hopefully this means they’ll be a month late leaving.