1/10/11 - Fantastic redfish bite as well as mackerel!!!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk took his father out, Capt. Richard Stanczyk Sr., along with family friend and photographer Ron Modra for some Islamorada fishing.  They had a late start around 9 am, and got back to one of Richard's old favorite spots around 10.  They stopped to catch a few pinfish at first, which came right up with a little chum.  We stopped in a runoff creek and caught a handful of nice trout as well as some jacks.  Putting up a little further (upon Rick's suggestion) they got into a huge mess of redfish!  It was action every cast, some eating bare jigs!  Probably caught 75 in total in about 2 hours.  Also caught a nice bluefish on a pinfish as well as this nicer red (pictured).  After the tide quit falling we ate some lunch and ran out into the gulf.  Not much happening out there, though we did see shocked permit swimming around, threw him a shrimp which he boiled on but wouldn't eat.  After this we ran back towards home and stopped at a favorite mackerel spot.  Caught about 25 mackerels, with the little chum we had, and a nice one that was close to 8 lbs (pictured)!  Had a good bite on the shark rod though that we missed, and called it a day!  Gorgeous weather, some clouds and rain around though that didn't bother us.  Fabulous day of fishing in the florida keys!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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rick@seethefloridakeys.net

Great weather, great fishing on the patches! 1/3/11

With the winds dying out and blowing around 10 mph out of the north, it's been fairly calm out front for a little Florida Keys Fishing.  Capt. Rick Stanczyk fished a half day this morning and did well on some shallow patches.  Shrimp was the bait of choice as well as a few chunks of ballyhoo.  We caught plenty of mangrove snappers along with a handful of nice ones, lots of blue runners, yellowtail, some smaller grouper varieties, some spanish mackerel, porgies, and 8 or so 6-10 lb jack crevalles.  Very fun on light tackle!!!  It was calm enough to go out a little further as the report from yesterday was the kingfish were biting so good they were eating jigs with shrimp, however we didn't have any luck doing that the last 45 minutes of our day, so we headed in to end our day of Islamorada Fishing.  We caught plenty of fish for lunch and sent the boys over to lazy days for some lazy days style snapper!  Capt. Skip Nielsen also reported similar catches from the day before, he also caught some nice cudas around the lighthouse as well as some king mackerel!

12/25/10 - Christmas morning on the patches

Merry Christmas everyone!  Capt. Rick Stanczyk fished a half day xmas morning with Chris and his father Ed from just up the road here in Florida.  Fishing Islamorada was good out on the shallow patch reefs.  Dirtier water on the inside led them to some nice mangrove snappers, a few porgies, and half a dozen red groupers, one which was legal size but we let everything go.  The fish have to celebrate christmas too right?  The deeper patches were not as productive as the water was pretty clear, mostly grunts on the bottom.  Anyways, not a bad way to spend your xmas morning on a Florida Fishing Charter!

Redfish in the back 12/17

Capt. Rick Stanczyk fished a full day in the florida keys backcountry today, 12/17/10.  We caught a bunch of redfish, probably 40 or so, 2 to 6 lbs.  A handful of black drum up to 8 lbs or so.  Mostly in the deeper channels back around east cape.  With the water as cold as it was, this was probably the best bet back there to fish islamorada , we did try to fish a little further in the gulf but still wasn't warm enough to produce much out there.