9/11/12 Backcountry September Islamorada Fishing Report

Well the winds swung around from the west to out of the north this morning on 9/11/12, giving us some nice cooler air for most of the morning on today's september islamorada fishing charter.  Lots of rain last night as well over the mainland and cape area of the everglades, we dodge a bit throughout the day which pleasently cooled us off!  Had the Leon's down from Miami FL, father and son.  We started out on the edge of the gulf this morning, leaving early at 10 till 7 AM.  Trout, snapper, ladyfish, and jacks were biting non-stop.  Lots of decent size trout for dinner with some nice mangroves mixed in.  We did this for about half an hour, then decided to try some other stuff before it got too hot on this florida keys fishing september trip.  We then ran towards the cape and tried fishing in some of the finger creeks that go up inside.  Tide was still coming in, with plenty of high water to get around.  We ended up catching 2 snook, one decent one of about 6 lbs, all on big shrimp which were available due to the cooler weather the night before.  There were a handful of baby tarpon at the mouth of one of these canals too, though we did not get any bites out of them while trying to drift large shrimp back on corks.  We ran out and tried some spots in the near gulf for some different action.  We caught 2 large 'sea monsters,' one was likely 300 lbs - exciting stuff backcountry fishing in islamorada!  We also caught half a dozen cobias on pinfish, a couple were keeper size, though we only kept one as that's all we had room for!  We also jumped a 60 lb tarpon off, and saw plenty more rolling rolling around.  Then headed back towards flamingo fishing for some redfish while the water was still high enough to hit some shoreline spots.  We worked a few areas and finally got into some, catching about 10 in total with a few slot size fish, all of which we released.  Great stuff to write about for this september florida keys fishing report, hopefully things will continue to be good out there!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk

8/10/12 Backcountry fishing.. bonefish and action in the gulf

Capt. Vinnie Biondoletti reported this morning.. Had Jack ,Roman and chad out on a half day of fishing for tarpon and bone fish. After two hours of tarpon fishing in Islamorada with no luck we switched gears and went for bones. We saw several groups of fish and managed to catch a nice 7 pounder to end our day. Bone fishing remains steady for the patient fisherman.  Nice Islamorada bonefish!

Capt. Jim Willcox reported some good fishing in the florida keys backcountry with lots of trout and redfish action.  They also caught 2 nice cobias, some black tip sharks, and a couple of 'sea monsters' by mistake!  Capt. Rick Stanczyk also ventured out further into the gulf, reporting good trout/snapper/etc.. action early with a mix of mackerels too.  Once the tide started falling they had a few shots at permit, catching 2 and losing 2 to sharks, as well as 3 cobia, and several goliath groupers.

8/9/12 Big Snook for some young kids

Kurt fished with his 2 sons, Kylan (12) and Ian (9) with Capt. Mike Bassett.  They fished 2 days yesterday and today, 8/9/12.  in two days they caught 2 nice snook, 11 and 6 lb, a 30 lb bull shark, a 6 lb trout, lots of redfish, a black drum, sheeps head, and jacks and snappers to eat.  They were down from VA and had lots of fun!  Capt. Rick Stanczyk reported good fishing on the edge of the gulf today, with a mix of trout, snapper, ladyfish, spanish mackerel, and a couple pompano!  We then chunked them up in some hold and caught a couple big goliaths, 2 big sawfish, a lemon and black tip shark, and got rocked up by some other goliaths, fun day of rod bending!

7/14/12 Bonefish, snook, sea monsters, backcountry!

Captain Vinnie Biondoletti reported the last couple days for this islamorada fishing report...

Bob Casey senior caught this nice bonefish on fly. He was fishing with his son Bob Jr. He also hooked another bonefish this morning. Fishing was quite good we saw a dozen groups of fish on a half day. 

More bone fishing this morning with Bob Casey senior and Jr. Saw lots of tailing fish back in the bay. Bob Jr. Managed to hook up on fly. He brought a nice 8 pound fish boat side. No pictures of this fish it fell off while we were trying to get it in the boat. We also had several groups of permit turn down our fly presentations. All in all another great day on the flats. 

Sara Michael caught her first snook today with  Capt. Bob Reineman.  They fished the backcountry around Flamingo.  Snook fishing in the everglades!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk had Jason and crew down for some fishing in the backcountry today.  We caught plenty of trout, mangrove snappers, and some ladyfish in the bays early.  We fished some out off of east cape later for bigger stuff, and caught 3 big sea monsters, a couple smaller sharks, and jumped a 30 lb tarpon and had one other flash a pinfish.  Great day of fishing in the florida keys!

6/3/12 Backcountry fishing report and florida keys tarpon fishing

Well summer feels like it is here things sure are getting hot now.  We've still been having some crazy weather patterns though the last few days have been absolutely gorgeous.  Before that we had a couple days of solid rain again coming out of the tropics.  On 6/3/12 I got back in the backcountry fishing with Mickey, Mike, and Mike for some backcountry fishing.  The day before we had caught loads of trout, ladyfish, and a few snappers.  Had tried islamorada tarpon fishing for a little while but action fishing was preferred!  On this day we started out way back in the everglades.  First fish of the day was a large snook of 20+ lbs!  Great way to start. We then caught 3 big sea monsters for something large for the boys to pull on.  One of them drug us a mile inshore.  We also had a hammerhead shark eat a pinfish off the surface while getting pulled around which was a cool sight to see.  Tarpon were rolling in the area but we did not have any bites out of them.  After this we hit some high tide shoreline spots and found some nice redfish, and also caught half a dozen black drum which is unusual for this time of year, as well as another snook!  Great day of family fishing in the florida keys!

Capt. Skip Nielsen had been reported good tarpon action on mullet last week with several multiple fish days, though finding the mullet is getting tougher and tougher.  Some bites on the falling tide in the afternoons have also come on crabs, Capt. Perry Scuderi had a nice fish the other afternoon on a crab. Capt. Mike Bassett also reported some snook action in the everglades on live pilchards. The falling tide will be extending nicely into the evening trip hours throughout this week, so it would be a good time to plan a night tarpon fishing trip in islamorada!