1/30/11 - Backcountry variety day! Big Black drum, reds, trout, snappers, and more!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk had Richard Arluck and his family out, Mike and Dave, today on Saturday 1/30/11.  They were visiting down from Miami and wanted some action and good stuff to eat!  They headed back towards the cape area around 8:00 and arrived around 9:30.  The tide had just stopped falling and they fished a deep area around the shoreline.  Soon as the tide started trickling in, they were catching plenty of black drum, sheepshead, redfish, ladyfish, even a couple trout and pompano!  Shrimp on jigs did the trick, and it was bites on every cast for a while!  Good action there for a couple of hours!  Once the tide started really ripping and some poirposes showed up, they decided to take a break and eat lunch.  After that they headed out towards the edge of the gulf off sprigger bank and snapper fished in some holes.  It took some looking around, but eventually they got into them real thick and caught plenty of keepers, as well as some small groupers which they released.  The weather as absolutely gorgeous this afternoon, light winds and the sun with cool air - just right!!!  Tons of action and probably caught 15 different species of fish!

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

1/24/11 - Reds, trout, and ladies - eating the fly!

Capt Jim Willcox fished with Kim, Andreas, & Rasmus from Denmark today. They caught multiple trout, reds, pompano, & lady fish, all on bait & on fly. The highlight of the day was Rasmus's first red on fly!  Capt. Rick Stanczyk also reported catching many reds, trout, ladyfish, and a mackerel and bluefish on his half day!

1/21/11 + 1/22/11 Backcountry and gulfside half days!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk had his regulars Lee and Rob down from the NJ area.  They were glad to get out of dodge leaving the cold weather and snow behind to come and visit to do some islamorada fishing.  We fished two half days, the first day we ran in the back and fished some ditches and runoffs, catching trout, ladyfish, some little pompano, and got into some thick redfish!  Rob caught some pompano on fly as well!  Lots of action and rod bending.  The next day we did something different, ran on the edge of the gulf and caught some mackerels. Got them going pretty good, caught some on fly again, and also put some out for some black tip sharks.  Got one to the boat and broke off a couple others, very fun and exciting watching them go airborne and spin like a torpedo!  It was Rob's first so he was very stoked!  We then hit a little wreck and caught some mangrove snappers for lunch for them before they headed back towards home!  They said they can't wait to come back and do it again hopefully later this year!!!

1/23/11 COLD slow morning, but the backcountry woke up!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk and Capt. Jim Willcox had Ed Forrester and his party in the backcountry for some florida keys fishing on 1/23/11.  It was a freezing cold morning being in the high 40s last night, and very windy.  We took the long, smoother ride back towards flamingo through some really low water.  We fished some deeper channels and creeks in the back and picked away at a handful of redfish, though having gotten cold so quick things were a little slow early.  Roy on Capt. Ricks boat did catch a nice 15 lb snook with a shrimp on the bottom though which was a real exciting fish to see as there population has still been hurt since the last cold winter we had in 2010.  We decided to run back around some runoffs in some other channels closer to home around noon when it started to warm up, and we really got into the reds then!  Each boat probably caught close to 50 a piece!  Tried fishing the edges of some of the banks, and not much but catfish, and a couple pompano.  After that we headed back to Islamorada!  Capt. Vinne Biondoletti reported similar fishing in the A.M., though fished a different area in the afternoon and did catch a lot of ladyfish and pompano.  Capt. Alex Adler on the Kalex had a nice catch of snappers and some nice cobias as well up to 40 lbs!

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

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!