1-21-11 Plenty of backcountry fish!

Matt Waddell and his son Jay, first timers at Florida Keys Fishing promised to come back every year after a full day with Captain Jim Willcox. They caught their limit of snappers, & many mackerel,bluefish , Ladyfish, 4  pompano, and a big blacktip shark Jay's first!!!  Very exciting stuff fishing in Islamorada!  Capt. Rick Stancyk had regulars Rob and his buddy Lee from NJ and they reported catching many redfish as well as snappers, trout, pompano, and a handful of mackerels.  Caught a few pompanos and jacks on fly as well!

1/10/11 - Fantastic redfish bite as well as mackerel!!!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk took his father out, Capt. Richard Stanczyk Sr., along with family friend and photographer Ron Modra for some Islamorada fishing.  They had a late start around 9 am, and got back to one of Richard's old favorite spots around 10.  They stopped to catch a few pinfish at first, which came right up with a little chum.  We stopped in a runoff creek and caught a handful of nice trout as well as some jacks.  Putting up a little further (upon Rick's suggestion) they got into a huge mess of redfish!  It was action every cast, some eating bare jigs!  Probably caught 75 in total in about 2 hours.  Also caught a nice bluefish on a pinfish as well as this nicer red (pictured).  After the tide quit falling we ate some lunch and ran out into the gulf.  Not much happening out there, though we did see shocked permit swimming around, threw him a shrimp which he boiled on but wouldn't eat.  After this we ran back towards home and stopped at a favorite mackerel spot.  Caught about 25 mackerels, with the little chum we had, and a nice one that was close to 8 lbs (pictured)!  Had a good bite on the shark rod though that we missed, and called it a day!  Gorgeous weather, some clouds and rain around though that didn't bother us.  Fabulous day of fishing in the florida keys!

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

12/29/10 - Still a little chilly, but fishable and fun!

Capt. Jim Willcox today catching over 150 redfish in some deeper channels way back in the everglades today, despite being record lows just a a couple nights ago!  He said trout fishing was not happening yet the couple spots he tried.  Capt. Rick Stanczyk, Capt. Ken Cohan, and Capt. Ed Cale had good fishing on the patch reefs, lots of porgies, snappers, few nice groupers and muttons, hogfish, and some nice cero mackerels!  Ken also caught a few pompanos, and Rick had a big bluefish!  Capt. Mike Bassett reported catching a couple smaller tarpon in one of the local Islamorada canals, all huddle up from the cold weather!  Capt. Nick Stanczyk aboard the BnM had 5 sailfish today!  Capt. Alex Adler aboard the Kalex had some nice king mackerels, and smaller cero's, as well as some bottom fish and a nice cuda caught by a young angler!  Looks like the weather will just be getting nicer and nice as we move in to the weekend, and hopefully hold up for next week!