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.
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 1-800-742-7945. Islamorada Fishing Reports vary year round, so check back often! Thanks!
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P.S. You can also read Capt. Rick Stanczyks updated fishing reports here or tarpon reports here (during season).
Friday, March 4, 2011 at 04:52PM Mark Brouse of Salt Late City, Utah, fishing with Capt. Ken Cohan caught this MONSTER bonefish weighing in at 14 lbs on a boga grip. This was Mark's first bonefish, and what a fish to catch! It was howling wind again today likely gusting over 30 mph so fishing options were limited, but as you can see staying close to home doesn't mean you won't catch the fish of a lifetime!
Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 05:22PM Well it was HOWLING today, reports of 33mph sustained winds out of the east - very nasty! Though the backcountry wasn't too bad if you rode along the edges of the banks and fished the runoff channels and such where you were protected. That's what Capt. Rick Stanczyk did, he had Dan Memory out for his first islamorada fishing trip. They started off catching some whopper trout, some over 20 inches, which were very nice as there hadn't been many big ones around. We also caught a handful of redfish, ladyfish, and an unusual flounder. We then put the big rods out which was tough as there were 3 footers in the main channel where we shark/tarpon fish with the tide going right into the wind! We gave it a try and ended up getting a few shark bites which bit us off, so we put the wire on and ended up catching a few blacktips which were very cool and acrobatic! We had two big 'mud marlin' on again as well, one slashed through the leader pretty quickly as he made his way directly out into the gulf - which was likely for the best as it was very rough out there! The other we fought for about 45 minutes and he stayed in the channel hugged to the bottom, though it was tough to pull on the leader myself and drive the boat at the same time with the howling winds, we finally got him tired and coming up a little when he started slashing around on the bottom and knicked the wind-on leader above the wire. But very tough battle, Dan said it was like trying to pull up a small car!
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 06:17PM Capt. Rick Stanczyk fished two half days on this first day of March, and had a great day to ring in the new month and start of spring! This morning he fished Bob and Sue, who stayed the night at Bud n' Mary's and fished the day before in the backcountry, catching plenty of redfish, trout, and ladyfish. They wanted to try something different so we took them out on the edge of the gulf. Caught some mackerels, bigger ladyfish, and blue runners. Also caught them 3 nice size blacktip sharks. Caught a tide change in the middle, though the end of the fall and beginning of the rise was good fishing! This afternoon Rick took Brent and his son-in-law kyle out for some florida keys fishing for dinner and caught them their limit of nice mangrove snappers! They also caught a handful of mackerel, blue runners, and groupers too. They wanted to catch a shark, so we went to one of the edges of the banks where the current was running pretty good and put out the few chunks of mackerel we had. While rigging the 2nd rod up, the first conventional started going click-click-click-click! Rick handed the rod to Brent, and said "lock it up in 10 seconds" figuring it was a shark. All of a sudden - BOOM - big splash behind the boat and a nice 60 lb tarpon! We caught him in about 15 minutes and got a nice picture of him and released him unharmed. We also caught a nice blacktip again after that for Kyle. Great way to end a day of fabulous fishing in islamorada with a nice florida keys tarpon!!! Capt. Jim Willcox also reported good fishign in the backcountry, trout, ladyfish, snappers, sharks, and caught another big 'mud marlin' as well! Capt. Perry Scuderi also reported good action around the bridges for mackerel, ladyfish, bluefish, and caught a big 250+ lb goliath grouper in the channels near the bridges!
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
305-747-6903
rick@seethefloridakeys.net
http://www.budnmarys.com
