2/18 + 2/19 - Quality, not quantity, in the offshore and backcountry!

The Proctor family fished with Capt. Nick & Capt. Rick Stanczyk this weekend, 2/18/11 and 2/19/11, for some offshore and backcountry action.  They fished aboard the "BnM" on Friday for a full day.  Fishing was kind of tough, sailfish did not cooperate, nor the king macs, or even the yellowtails on the reef!  However, they did catch a nice 40 lb cobia out of the kite while sailfishing!  They also dropped on a hole and caught a huge 18 lb mutton, as well as a 20 lb black grouper, too bad they weren't in season!  They also caught a few tunas, a schoolie dolphin, some kingfish and a big ol' porgy!  Saturday they went for a half day with Capt. Rick Stanczyk in the backcountry.  They fished the edge of the gulf, again fishing was a little tough back there, though they did catch about 15 spanish macs, ladyfish, a couple bluefish, 2 nice blacktip/spinner sharks, and a lil' 10 lb. cobia on the light jig rod - very fun on light tackle!  Sometimes it's quality, not quantity, that counts!  As the weather continues to warm up, the backcountry fishing should really be taking off again, looking forward to great days in the gulf, as well as tarpon fishing in the back!!!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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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!

Day after xmas, 12/26/10, offshore aboard BnM!

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Capt. Nick Stanczyk aboard the BnM was able to get a half day in Islamorada Fishing before the real windy weather came towards Islamorada, Florida Keys on 12/26/10.  They caught a couple real nice afican pompanos off a popular dive wreck nearby up to 30 lbs!  Bottom fishing was good producing a 5 lb mutton, and a 10 lb black grouper.  They wanted some action and jumping so they decided to go Florida Keys Fishing for sailfish, here's a picture of a nice sail they caught!  They ended up catching 3 sails for the day, releasing all unharmed!  They also caught 3 kingfish on this Florida Fishing Charter.

12/25/10 - Christmas morning on the patches

Merry Christmas everyone!  Capt. Rick Stanczyk fished a half day xmas morning with Chris and his father Ed from just up the road here in Florida.  Fishing Islamorada was good out on the shallow patch reefs.  Dirtier water on the inside led them to some nice mangrove snappers, a few porgies, and half a dozen red groupers, one which was legal size but we let everything go.  The fish have to celebrate christmas too right?  The deeper patches were not as productive as the water was pretty clear, mostly grunts on the bottom.  Anyways, not a bad way to spend your xmas morning on a Florida Fishing Charter!