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
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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!

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
305-747-6903
rick@seethefloridakeys.net