Bud n Mary's fishing report Islamorada 2-6

[Fishing Report]

Strictly Business takes 3rd place in the Ladies Sailfish Tourney!
DateMonday, February 6, 2012 at 06:03PM

Last weekend the Ladies Sailfish Tournament took place here in Islamorada. The Florida Keys sailfishing was decent and over the two day period the girls on Strictly Business with Capt. Wes released 5 sailfish to take 3rd place. It was a windy and rough weekend but quite a few boats still made it out to the Reef and had fair fishing. Nothing was really red hot, but there was a mix of a yellowtail snapper, a few mutton snapper, barracuda, king mackerel, and a handful of sailfish caught amongst the fleet. Monday brought heavy winds with rain most of the morning but there was still some action for the boats that stuck it out. Mostly snapper, king mackerel, cero mackerel, and some groupers (which have to be released because of the closed season).

2/3/12 Great fishing in the everglades despite the wind!
DateFriday, February 3, 2012 at 04:56PM

Capt. Rick Stanczyk fished with Carlo and his brother down from Canada today on 2/3/12 for a full day islamorada fishing charter. The winds were howling, a steady 20+mph all day with gusts over 25! Luckily it is coming from the eastern quadrant which is not too bad in the everglades. We skated the edges of the banks and channels towards flamingo, arriving early at 8:00 am. Caught the end of the falling tide.. first boat there luckily. Fishing was red hot, we used primarily shrimp. Lots of redfish, a handful of slot fish mixed in with lots of puppy drum. We caught a couple nice snook early too, one with a horn hooked shrimp on a jig, the other off a pinfish on the bottom. Several black drum were in there too with one nice size one, as well as half a dozen slot trout which we kept! We fished for a few hours catching close to 50 fish, through the slack tide and the in tide. After things slowed a bit, we moved to some channels a little further west for some florida keys shark fishing. Lots of trout in there mixed in with jacks, no pompanos today. We saved some stuff for bait, and after we ran out of shrimp, moved deeper in the channel for some shark fishing. We caught probably 8 black tips, mostly little ones, and this nice 90 lb bull shark. No tarpon today though the hard winds and bit of chill in the air likely has shut them off again. Last bait of the day we hooked something big... ran us down to the mono backing on our BG 90 while I threw the anchor ball. We chased the big sea monster around for 25 minutes or so, but unfortunately while pulling on him he got the wind-on leader wrapped around his sharp toothy bill and cut us off! We then headed home, the boys are fishing offshore tomorrow and staying on one of Bud n' Mary's houseboats tonight!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
305-747-6903
rick@seethefloridakeys.net

Bud N' Mary's Fishing Marina
PO Box 628
79851 Overseas Highway
Mile Marker 79.8 - Oceanside
Islamorada, Florida Keys

Business Phone: (305) 664-2461
Toll-Free Number: (800) 742-7945
Fax: (305) 664-5592

Website: www.budnmarys.com
Email: bnmfm@budnmarys.com

[bassjedi]

Way to pull out the day under tough conditions.