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!

1-19-11 Great backcountry and offshore action!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk reported catching many redfish close to 40 in about half an hour in the backcountry today.  They also caught some trout, ladyfish, and jacks nearby.  Had a couple shark bites while putting the big rods out but couldn't keep 'em on.  Later on they caught plenty of mackerel and snappers on the edge of the gulf.  Capt. Bill Bassett and Ken Cohan also reported lots of trout, ladyfish, mackerel, and snappers fishing towards the edge of the gulf.  Capt. Nick Stanczyk had a nice catch of sails today, the Relentless with Capt. Paul Ross had several nice large cobia some over 50 lbs, as well a the Kalex, and plenty of king mackerel on the docks!

1-16-11 - Backcountry action!!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk fished Howard and Mike today for a full day in the backcountry off of Islamorada, Florida Keys.  We had incoming tide most of the day, so we ran and fished the edge of the gulf of mexico to fish for spanish mackerel.  The mackerel bite was great!  We stopped at some sunken debris down off long key.  Caught probably 2 dozen, and a dozen or so nice mangrove snappers.  After this we ran further out in the the gulf, and hit a couple more spots in hops of fishing for cobia or maybe getting a nice goliath grouper or shark.  Unfortunately the water was still a little chilly, in the low 60s, so we didn't have much luck with anything except some small jacks.  We ran back into the park around 11:30 and caught the last of the in tide in a little runoff and caught some nice trout and ladyfish!  When that dried up, we moved to another runoff a couple miles away, and caught the beginning of the falling tide.  Some more trout and ladyfish, and we also caught half a dozen pompanos which was a nice surprise!  No redfish, and had to cut our trip a little short before the tide got low enough for them to stack up, but great action and variety fishing the florida everglades!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
305-747-6903
http://www.budnmarys.com
rick@seethefloridakeys.net

1/13/11 - Cold north wind, but some nice snappers!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk fished a half day this morning with the Zarecki's, south florida natives visiting the keys!  We left a little later in the morning since we had a cold front hit us last night.  The wind was howling out of the north, very muddy and choppy in the bay.  We left around 9:30 and made our way back.  Some of the areas where I'd been catching trout and redfish were extremely muddy due to the wind, we tried for a few spots but no luck, so we headed back on the edge of the gulf and hit a little mangrove snapper hole.  It was loaded up with nice snapper, hadn't been there since last winter, but great to see! Caught our limit very quickly, a few nice ones close to 13 inches!

1-11-11 Half day, tons of action!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk took Ed Grassia down for vacation in the keys out for a little half day backountry fishing trip today.  The fishing in islamorada had been fantastic!  Lots of fog this morning made it a little eerie riding back in the everglades this morning, but it lifted enough for a safe ride back.  We fished a few runoffs and got into some nice trout, some ladyfish, and some jacks!  Plenty of action, and lots of schools of mullet mudding around with porpoises going nuts feeding on them!  We did that for an hour or so, then made our way up a little further in the same area and got into a great bite of redfish!  Probably caught around 40 reds, 20 trout, a dozen ladyfish, and a dozen jacks.  Spectacular fishing for just a couple hours!

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

Foggy morning ride!