9/20/12 Great backcountry september florida keys fishing report!

Had my father Capt. Richard Stanczyk Sr. and friend/photographer Ron Modra out for some september fishing in islamorada for fun today!  We brought some shrimp and a load of pinfish to try deep in the florida everglades fishing.  We left early at 6:00 AM and headed back to cape sable.  We found some rolling tarpon early in the morning though it was tough to get bites out of them.  We drifted pinfish, anchored, alas no luck.  Finally I had one pinfish just hanging behind the transom of the boat, splashing on the surface, and wham a nice 40 lb tarpon ate him right there!  We caught him, very nice fight on light 15lb spin gear!  We then headed further back up the cape and fished some of the runoffs and shorelines.  Tide was still falling and water was very low for florida keys fishing in september, we finally found one area where there were several nice slot redfish and got one small/medium snook, fishing mostly shrimp and some cut bait.  We also got a nice baby goliath grouper and a couple small black drum.  We continued picking away and made are way up the creek as the tide died.  We then tried some other creeks, and as the tide started coming in so did some big snook!  We caught several nice 10-12 lber islamorada snook fishing, likely half a dozen and a couple smaller ones.  We got one nice 10 lb red as well.  Most these fish were eating pinfish.  We then had lunch and looked around a bit more and then made are way back towards middle cape.  We tried one more shoreline area and got into some more big redfish, 10-12 lbers, and got one more nice snook.  Again, pinfish was the ticket as well as some cut bait.  The tide was coming in pretty good now, and the overcast/rainy weather likely helped keeping the water a bit cooler for our islamorada fishing trip.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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