Ringing in the new year in the backcountry! 1/1/11

Galen Edie & his family(Galen,Nick, Chris & Sean) Bud & Mary's Florida Keys Fishing regulars for 20 years,rung in the new year fishing with Capt Jim Willcox & Ken Cohan on Dec 31st & Jan 1st. Day one was filled with plenty of trout & a full limit of snappers for all 5 anglers. Day two the boats split up & fished two different areas. Both boats caught double digit redfish,black drum,sheepshead,& large trout. Shrimp was the main bait of choice back here with the water still being somewhat cool!  The weather was beautiful & there were no other boats around. The pics are of Sean with a nice black drum, Dad with a big trout, a close encounter with a crocodile, & a sneak preview of a new dam under construction.  Great way to spend a day fishing in Islamorada!

12/29/10 - Still a little chilly, but fishable and fun!

Capt. Jim Willcox today catching over 150 redfish in some deeper channels way back in the everglades today, despite being record lows just a a couple nights ago!  He said trout fishing was not happening yet the couple spots he tried.  Capt. Rick Stanczyk, Capt. Ken Cohan, and Capt. Ed Cale had good fishing on the patch reefs, lots of porgies, snappers, few nice groupers and muttons, hogfish, and some nice cero mackerels!  Ken also caught a few pompanos, and Rick had a big bluefish!  Capt. Mike Bassett reported catching a couple smaller tarpon in one of the local Islamorada canals, all huddle up from the cold weather!  Capt. Nick Stanczyk aboard the BnM had 5 sailfish today!  Capt. Alex Adler aboard the Kalex had some nice king mackerels, and smaller cero's, as well as some bottom fish and a nice cuda caught by a young angler!  Looks like the weather will just be getting nicer and nice as we move in to the weekend, and hopefully hold up for next week!

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!