About Bud N' Mary's

Bud N' Mary's Fishing Marina is located in Islamorada, Florida, The Sportfishing Capital of The World!  It was established in 1944, and over the years has been one of the most famous sportfishing destinations in the world!  It is home to over 40 of the finest offshore captains and backcountry guides.  We also have a spectacular party fishing boat, the Miss Islamorada.  There is also a great dive shop, boat rentals, motel, boat storage, transient dockage, and tackle store.  We will be posting fishing related events, catches, media publications, and overall news concerning Bud N' Mary's here, so keep tuned in!  You can contact Bud N' Mary's at 1-800-742-7945 or e-mail us:
bnmfm@budnmarys.com.

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Welcome to our Florida Keys Fishing Reports section.  Here we will be posting all the catch reports both offshore and backcountry around Islamorada and the Florida Keys.  Remember all captains can be booked through Bud N' Mary's Florida Keys Fishing Charters by calling 1-800-742-7945Islamorada Fishing Reports vary year round, so check back often! Thanks!

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To see older fishing reports, scroll to the bottom and click the page numbers!

P.S. You can also read Capt. Rick Stanczyks updated fishing reports here or tarpon reports here (during season).

Entries in mackerel (34)

Friday
Dec232011

12/23/11 Christmas fishing in the Islamorada Backcountry!

Fishing in the backcountry was red hot today for Capt. Vinnie Biondoletti on 12/23/11. Lots of nice snook and redfish, which will hopefully continue biting into our january islamorada fishing report trips. Ned Barnes along with his son Tripp and niece Lauren released lots of both. They fished around flamingo with very low water as you can see from some of the pictures.  After the bite slowed we headed to the Gulf. Once there we caught lots of Spanish mackerel. The winds were down from  what they have been about a ten knot breeze out of the east, which is a releif as the past several days have been 15-25 knot winds - very windy month of December!  Christmas week fishing in the florida keys should be very nice as the temperature has been warm in the 70s and doesn't look like it will change much, so get out on the water if your down here!!!

Wednesday
Dec142011

12/12/11 Great mix bag day of fishing, backcountry and gulf!

Capt. Skip Nielsen had Doctors Liz and Mark Harris visiting from the Isle of Man in the UK.
They caught and released 18 redfish,20 seatrout then moved to the gulf where the Spanish Mackerel bite was off the chart. Broke out the flyrod and Dr. Mark released over 20 fish of 5 species on the flyrod. I quote from Mark.."I am knackered" what a great day of fishing in the Islamorada backcountry fishing out of Bud n Marys Marina!  The weather has been on the windy side as of late though great to be able to get some different kinds of fishing in on a full day trip!  Wonderful to see as we enter our busy christmas week fishing islamorada!

Saturday
Dec102011

12/10/11 Sprigger Bank Fishing Charter

Capt. Rick Stanczyk fished Tom and Rick again today for a half day sprigger bank fishing charter.  We left out a little after dawn, good tide heading into the gulf with gentle east breeze behind it.  After arriving at our spot about 45 minutes later we drug the chum bag around a bit to get them going good.  Tons and tons of pinfish out there as usual, dip netted by hand about 50 of them!  After anchoring down on some potholes we started fishing.  Spanish mackerel bite was just about as good as you wanted it, not too crazy where they were biting the knots off every other cast, but a fish every 3rd cast or so.  We caught plenty on just one block of chum, also a nice mix of blue runners, and some big ladyfish at the end, plus random mangrove snapper and sea trout.  Lots of fun action on ultra light tackle rods, a few real line zingers!!! Put some shark rods out but the big blacktips were not biting, water was still a little chilly though back there.  We tried to hit a goliath spot a little further out, but no avail, did catch some more macks out there as well as random mix bags of other things.  Little bumpy ride in for a few miles in the open gulf, as wind did pick up a bit, but thankfully not too much.  Anyways good action packed half day for our florida keys flats fishing trip.

Capt. Jim Willcox ran far back into the everglades and fished the cape area and some other channels and run-offs in the backcountry.  They caught redfish, some big trout, and a nice snook!

Wednesday
Dec072011

12/7/11 December Islamorada Fishing Report

Capt. Jim Willcox fished with Bud n' Mary's regulars Kevin and Susan Dunne today on 12/7/11.  They did a bit of everything as it was a gorgeous day to be on a florida keys fishing charter.  Several nice redfish and trout in the backcountry near the mainland, and this good size snook!  The mackerels bit well too they caught as many of those as they wanted!  Islamorada backcountry fishing has been great as of late with no major cold front shutting down the bays so get on out there while it's good!  Capt. John Johansen reported similar bite, they caught about 15 redfish, a snook, and lots of mackerel this afternoon!

Tuesday
Dec062011

12/6/11 Spanish mackerel fishing islamorada inshore

Jim & his friend is Ed from Maryland fished with Ed Cale today for a half day of fishing islamorada backcountry. They caught spanish macks, pompano, bluefish, bluerunner, bar jack, lane snapper, grey snapper & crevalle jacks!  Lots of action!  They also landed a nice blacktip shark.  Capt. Rick Stanczyk had them out the afternoon before, it was much windier and we couldn't fish the open bays, but got into some protected waters with several nice size trout, ladyfish, and a few mackerels as well.  The fishing further out west was not as good as it was close by, we did catch about a dozen spanish mackerels today, plus some blue runners, snappers, and ladyfish, but had to work at it pretty hard!  Long casts in the chum slick, alternating fast and slow retrieve with a double twitch produced fish best!  Good backcountry fishing action close to home with options on both the bay and ocean side depending on weather!