11/25/11 Florida Keys Redfish Backcountry

Well the wind was howling today out of the east 15-20 mph!  Blustery day after the holidays.  Capt. Rick Stanczyk did a 3/4 day with Mike and his son AJ who have fished with him the last several years the day after thanksgiving.  We did some florida keys redfish backcountry fishing.  Had an extreme low tide in the everglades, flats were sticking out everywhere and very little water in the channels and cuts.  We hit a spot out I had not fished much since last year.  Fishing was great caught close to 20 nice reds, mostly slot size fish!  Several on shrimps with jigs and a few on live baits.  AJ caught his biggest ever pictured here.  Also caught a handful of trout as well as ladyfish.  After the tide quit we ran towards flamingo area to catch the end of the tide there.  Hit a few spots in the channels there near shorelines and such, though not much going on.  Caught 3 or 4 reds as we moved from runoff to runoff, and that was about it.  Tried around some islands after that where tide was still flushing out even a little past noon, but not much luck there either. Decide to head in a little early and call it a day! Oh well started strong and definetely worth the trip for these guys!  Stay tuned and be ready for some great december islamorada fishing report information!

11/9/11 Islamorada Offshore & Backcountry Report

Fishing was good all around today here in Islamorada Florida Keys.  In the backcountry Capt. Rick Stanczyk reported hooking double digit snook and catching 8 or so.  Redfishing around flamingo was not so hot just a few small rats.  Capt. Mike Bassett caught a real nice size fish on a half day back there as well.  Capt. Jim Willcox ran deep into the backcountry and caught some snook, redfish, and a baby tarpon.  Capt. Skip Nielsen did say he got a few nice size reds out to the west.  Capt. Vinnie Biondoletti fished the patches and caught several nice size hogfish - great eating!  Also plenty of porgies and other fish.  Offshore Capt. Nick Stanczyk on the BnM got into several nice mahi, great to see them this time of year.  They also caught 2 sailfish.  The gulf edge got a little nasty this afternoon, Capt. Rick reported it started blowing out of the west shutting a lot of fishing down out there this afternoon, we did catch some nice jacks and found a big goliath grouper on some structure.  Unfortunately we hooked him about 6 times and could not pull him out of it with the rod we had, must of been a very big fish!!!  Great fun still though to feel them pull!

11/7/11 Florida Keys Fishing in November

Capt. Rick Stanczyk and Capt. Jim Willcox took the Bonacci family fishing today for a half day in the backcountry on 4/7/11.  Florida Keys Fishing in November has been producing a decent redfish bite and some snook in the back, which is what we caught today.  Together we probably caught over 100 fish in all.  We had about 20 redfish, 1 snook, and several ladyfish and jacks.  Capt. Jim reported a similar catch, he had dad and daughter, Rick had mom and son.  The girls may have beat the boys it was a close match though we lost count in the end!  The reds bit best early at the end of the falling tide.  The in tide brought some sea trout with it as well, they bit the gulp aritificials good.  Live shrimp did the trick otherwise.  Young Steven did hook another nice snook at the end of the day though we pulled the hook, though he did get a nice red after that. Tides should be good the next several mornings back in the everglades and flamingo, hopefully the fish will continue to bite good!  I'm sure they got pounded over the weekend with the Redbone tournament going on.

11/5/11 Islamorada Fishing in November, snooks!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk fished a half day today backcountry fishing florida keys.  We ran back around flamingo and caught the end of the falling tide.  We caught half a dozen small snook, much fun on light tackle!  Also caught a few black drum and sheeps head.  We moved to another spot and got into the ladyfish, and a couple small rat redfish.  Good to see the snook around again.  Capt. Bill Bassett reported catching some snook and redfish a few days ago too back there.  This afternoon we fished again, the mackerels were very spotty, though we did catch a bunch of jacks and blue runners, along with some ladyfish, a few trout and snappers.  The big blacktips were biting again, got one to the boat.

10/26/11 Snooks and redfish backcountry fishing Islamorada

Well it was another blustery day here in islamorada backcountry fishing on 10/26/11!  I had Hack and Jill Albertson. Hack is with the Paralyzed Verterans Association who do a big trip to the marina every year.  They come to Bud n' Mary's and book several guides/charters and also have a big cookout, lots of fun!  We left out at 7:30 this morning, daybreak is getting later and later though will be changing time soon.  We headed back to the mainland/flamingo area, took a longer ride to stay out of the chop which was nice.  Unfortunately 4 boats already sitting in one area that's been hot, so we moved down the channel a little bit.  Fishing was good, lots of trout, jacks, ladyfish, and few snappers early.  As the tide died and got very low, caught several redfish probably 20 in all, handful of decent slot fish.  Hack also caught his first snook on shrimp, unfortunately Jill lost hers, also had another one get cut off.  Had to chase hacks down since it was on very light tackle, good catch!  When tied died at noon we ran down the beach a bit and fished a creek.  Hack caught another snook on pinfish, and we missed another bite.  Also caught a handful more reds, plus various others.  Ran home after that, not bad day with the conditions!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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