9/19/11 Variety in the backcountry, still good summer-time fishin'

Capt. Vinnie Biondoletti has fished a few days and half days backcountry in the past week.  His son Ryan caught 4 nice reds sight fishing with him for a few hours, including this nice one!  Tom & Christine also caught several pictured as well as some trout, ladyfish, and sharks!  Ed Phillips and his son Mike had similar fishing, and also caught this nice toothy barracuda!

8/24/11 Florida Keys Backcountry Fishing Action!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk has still been picking up a handful of half day trips short notice and getting some good action in on his islamorada backcountry fishing trips!  We headed out this A.M. in search of some table fare and the mangrove snapper bite in the bay has been pretty good!  We headed out to the west and anchored in an area where there has been plenty.  We chummed up a few small ballyhoos and netted a few of those.  Cutting them in half made perfect baits for the hungry mangs, also a few small ladyfish worked almost as well cut in small chunks. After we had enough of that we headed back towards Islamorada to try to bend the big rods.  We ended up jumping a small tarpon.  Then after putting the last couple pieces we hooked a double header.  One was a nice 30 lb cuda that skyrocketted all around the boat.  The other was some kind of monster hugged on the bottm!  We got the cuda in and released him and then proceeded to fight the other.  After a 15 minute battle we pulled up this huge sea monster!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
305-747-6903
rick@seethefloridakeys.net

Great April Tarpon Fishing for Capt. Skip Nielsen

Capt. Skip reported yesterday that he had Deb and Rich Riolo the night before. They are staying upstairs over the tackle shop this week. They come down every year first week of April and last night released 3 Tarpon. We had lots of action.Tarpon were blasting our live mullet and "cheap shotting" us. Deb and Rich managed to hook 3 out of 10 bites. Great sunset Tarpon bite!  They also fished today and caught 4 tarpon in the backcountry!  They got DNA samples of one tarpon Deb caught for research purposes!  They also caught this toothy cuda!

Capt. Jim Willcox also caught a toothy cuda on a half day the day before, check this guy out!!!

Great weather, great fishing on the patches! 1/3/11

With the winds dying out and blowing around 10 mph out of the north, it's been fairly calm out front for a little Florida Keys Fishing.  Capt. Rick Stanczyk fished a half day this morning and did well on some shallow patches.  Shrimp was the bait of choice as well as a few chunks of ballyhoo.  We caught plenty of mangrove snappers along with a handful of nice ones, lots of blue runners, yellowtail, some smaller grouper varieties, some spanish mackerel, porgies, and 8 or so 6-10 lb jack crevalles.  Very fun on light tackle!!!  It was calm enough to go out a little further as the report from yesterday was the kingfish were biting so good they were eating jigs with shrimp, however we didn't have any luck doing that the last 45 minutes of our day, so we headed in to end our day of Islamorada Fishing.  We caught plenty of fish for lunch and sent the boys over to lazy days for some lazy days style snapper!  Capt. Skip Nielsen also reported similar catches from the day before, he also caught some nice cudas around the lighthouse as well as some king mackerel!