1/1/12 Islamorada Fishing in January 2012

Happy New Year everyone, gorgeous weather today here fishing in islamorada!  Capt. Vinnie Biondoletti was out the other day and John Gray fishing along with his dad John Gray caught some nice Hogfish for dinner. They fished a full day in the backcountry. We released lots of nice trout and ladyfish. In the afternoon the winds dropped  off and we headed out to the shallow reef. Lots of action out there on barjacks and other hard fighting bottom dwellers.  Capt. Rick Stanczyk also fished Richard Cromwell and his son Luke, who are fishing with his brother Nick today offshore.  We caught a couple dozen reds, very beautiful fish way back in the everglades.  Also caught snappers, sheepshead, ladyfish, and jacks.  In the afternoon we ran out to some structure in the gulf and had a 35 lb cobia swim up but couldn't get him to eat.  Then we ended the day catching big trout in some channels and headed home!  Capt. John Johnsen fished the bay and ocean side as well yesterday... similar report mackerels, ladyfish, snapper in the back and lost a big goliath grouper at the boat.  Then caught hogfish and grouper oceanside and a nice cobia on fly rod!  Hope your out on the water today for your florida keys fishing in january!

Update on Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 06:41PM by Capt. Nick Stanczyk

Out on the Reef the New Year started out great as well. It was a beautiful day and Luke fished on the BNM and caught and released 2 sailfish, as well as keeping a couple of mahi, kingfish and yellow jacks. The Sugaree also had a limit of kingfish and a sailfish release.

12/23/11 Christmas fishing in the Islamorada Backcountry!

Fishing in the backcountry was red hot today for Capt. Vinnie Biondoletti on 12/23/11. Lots of nice snook and redfish, which will hopefully continue biting into our january islamorada fishing report trips. Ned Barnes along with his son Tripp and niece Lauren released lots of both. They fished around flamingo with very low water as you can see from some of the pictures.  After the bite slowed we headed to the Gulf. Once there we caught lots of Spanish mackerel. The winds were down from  what they have been about a ten knot breeze out of the east, which is a releif as the past several days have been 15-25 knot winds - very windy month of December!  Christmas week fishing in the florida keys should be very nice as the temperature has been warm in the 70s and doesn't look like it will change much, so get out on the water if your down here!!!

12/17/11 Action packed reef and gulf fishing islamorada!

Capt. Vinnie Biondoletti fished Jerry Fontain his daughter Melanie and Mike Plonian. They went out to the patches this morning.  They caught lots of nice porgy, Hogfish and bar jacks along with some throw back grouper.  Lots of action fishing the islamorada patch reefs!  Capt. Rick Stanczyk fished this afternoon and reported a good spanish mackerel bite close to home in the bay behind Channel #2 and #5.  Mix of jacks, trout, ladyfish, and snapper in there as well.  The sharks were swarming too, caught a nice 60 lb blacktip and jumped a few others.  Further out offshore the offshore boats had a good bite of king mackerel and handful of sailfish bites though not real red hot.  The florida keys reef fishing was good however, the party fishing boat Miss Islamorada had tons of yellowtail - great dinner! 

12/5/11 Flamingo fishing report december!

Capt. Vinnie Biondoletti reported good backcountry fishing in flamingo today!  Matt Myers and his friend Jim caught 40 redfish and several snook today. They fished the Flamingo area all day. The winds were strong about 20 mph. Lots if jacks and lady fished mixed in.  Capt. Rick Stanczyk picked up a late afternoon half day today, they stayed close to home and fished some muds that had lots of nice trout in them, about 2 dozen total.  Also in there were several nice size ladyfish and a few mackerels.  Shrimp has been doing the trick and is the bait of choice here in the winter time when the water cools down in the backcountry. 

12/4/11 Islamorada Flats Fishing in December

Capt. Vinnie Biondoletti had the boys from University of Northwest Ohio out for a few hours and caught ladyfish, mackerel and a few small blacktip sharks. Plenty of action in the muds and such in the bays close to home.  The wind was howling 20-25 mph out of east/north east.  Islamorada flats fishing in december has been good, lots of options as the water hasn't chilled too much yet.  The Bodacious with Capt. Nick Stanczyk as angler and crew mate won the Islamorada Sailfish Tournament for 2011 with 22 sailfish in 3 days, great job!  The Catch 22 and Kalex out of Bud n' Mary's also placed in top 5. Florida Keys Deep Sea Fishing has been good if you can stand the chop, lots of muttons and a few groupers roaming the reefs and in the sand.  Come on down now it's a great time to go december fishing in the florida keys before the craziness of christmas week!