1/1/12 Islamorada Fishing in January 2012

Happy New Year everyone, gorgeous weather today here fishing in islamorada!  Capt. Vinnie Biondoletti was out the other day and John Gray fishing along with his dad John Gray caught some nice Hogfish for dinner. They fished a full day in the backcountry. We released lots of nice trout and ladyfish. In the afternoon the winds dropped  off and we headed out to the shallow reef. Lots of action out there on barjacks and other hard fighting bottom dwellers.  Capt. Rick Stanczyk also fished Richard Cromwell and his son Luke, who are fishing with his brother Nick today offshore.  We caught a couple dozen reds, very beautiful fish way back in the everglades.  Also caught snappers, sheepshead, ladyfish, and jacks.  In the afternoon we ran out to some structure in the gulf and had a 35 lb cobia swim up but couldn't get him to eat.  Then we ended the day catching big trout in some channels and headed home!  Capt. John Johnsen fished the bay and ocean side as well yesterday... similar report mackerels, ladyfish, snapper in the back and lost a big goliath grouper at the boat.  Then caught hogfish and grouper oceanside and a nice cobia on fly rod!  Hope your out on the water today for your florida keys fishing in january!

Update on Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 06:41PM by Capt. Nick Stanczyk

Out on the Reef the New Year started out great as well. It was a beautiful day and Luke fished on the BNM and caught and released 2 sailfish, as well as keeping a couple of mahi, kingfish and yellow jacks. The Sugaree also had a limit of kingfish and a sailfish release.

12/3/11 Good islamorada snook fishing in the backcountry!

Capt. Vinnie Biondoletti had Thomas and John Cashion fishing in the backcountry today.  They caught several nice snook including these pictured here today!  Weather was blowing hard 20 mph and was nice once they got back there.  Also pictured are fish from Capt. Rick Stanczyk's trip yesterday including spanish mackerel, big trout, and big 200 lb goliath thrashing his tail before he snapped the line!

11/3/11 November Islamorada Fishing.. mack attack, 400 lb goliath!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk fished two half days today on 11/3/11 for some november islamorada fishing report substance!  This morning had Keith Krunk down with a group also fishing Capt. Jack Backus and Capt. Ed Cale.  We fished out west trying for spanish mackerels since a few have been showing up since the temperatures have dropped.  Today the wind fell down to 5-10 mph, from blowing over 25 mph yesterday out of the north!  Lots of cool air, but at least not so rough today!  The macks did not bite great this morning with the in tide, though we caught a handful and pulled some off.  Lots of big ladyfish as well as some jacks and snappers.  Kept us busy!  This afternoon when the tide starting falling into the gulf with the wind behind it, it was game on with the spanish mackerel fishing!  Had Jeremy and his dad out who fished with my monday AM, we had caught some trout, snapper, ladyfish, and a few macks that day, plus an 80 lb goliath.  Though got drenched on the way in and caught in a nasty storm.  They braved it again and had a beautiful afternoon.  Caught probably 30 mackerels along with plenty of jacks too, some nice size mackerel too.   The big blacktips were also chewing and going crazy, we got one to the boat and broke off probably 4 or 5 as they jumped and twisted, straightening hooks and breaking #9 wire!  Lots of fun to watch!  At the end we hooked something big on the bottom, not a black tip this time...  We chased after it, too big to stop anchored.  Thought it was a big nurse shark, but no - big 400 lb goliath grouper!  Got him up to the surface and he soaked us with a splash of his tail.  Got him up again and he calmed down for some pictures, close to 7 feet long!  Great way to end the day for these guys on their florida keys fishing trip!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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9/22/11 Good fishing report from Capt. Mike Bassett

Capt. Mike Bassett reported catching a few redfish as well as a small tarpon, some trout and big jacks too.  He also reported they lost a large snook in the mangroves and a goliath grouper got them wrapped up in the bottom too, but that's fishing!

6/13/11 Some big summer goliaths while florida keys fishing

Capt. Rick Stanczyk has fished the past few days in the islamorada backcountry.  Some nice snappers have been way out west in some of the close gulf areas, white holes, wrecks, etc...  Some goliaths have been out there as well we caught a nice one yesterday and had a couple others cut us off in structure.  A few other captains reported some in some other areas as well.  Today Capt. Rick also caught this nice 50 lber, along with several blacktip sharks, lemon sharks, and some BIG 150-200 lb nurse sharks.  We also jumped a couple of 50-75 lb tarpon, couldn't get the hooks to stay in, but good to see some in the backcountry with the wind laying down.  There was also some good action with ladyfish, trout, and jacks today as well.