Capt. Rick Stanczyk's Islamorada Tarpon Fishing

Well I haven’t been fishing a whole lot as we’re into September, our slowest month of the year for business.   But I did get out the last couple of days and the first day we tarpon fished for a bit of it.  Found a massive school of fish in one of the usual backcountry haunts…  We ended up catching three in about an hour – very good fishing!  Including one nice size 60ish lber.  Got some great video footage I put together which you can watch below, also including the rest of my fishing report from the second day.  Right now not much going on until the end of this week, and I have a few days open at the end of the month.  The beginning of October is also fairly open for me though I start getting a bit busiest mid-october.  So if you are wanting to come on down, it’s a great time to fish!  I especially love October as we often get the fall bait run going and it can be some of the best fishing of the year.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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Well it’s officially off season now here in the Keys.  Fishing is still really good but not a whole lot of people fishing this time of year as it’s just not too busy.  The threat of storms and school starting back keeps the crowds away.  So it’s often a great time to come enjoy our piece of paradise if you want to have it a little more to yourself.  Right now there are a few tropical systems brewing out there but we have yet  to see if they’ll affect us.  I always work with people this time of year so if you make a reservation and it looks to be in jeopardy due to weather, don’t worry we can reschedule, cancel, whatever we need to do.

Now on to the fishing… the tarpon bite has been pretty good the last couple of days.  I’ve had tarpon action on every trip with exception to one.  It got a little slower right around the full moon, we still managed a couple fish one day.  The day after we only tried for about 45 minutes and didn’t get a bite but went on to other stuff.  But the last two days were good we caught 4 out of 6 two days ago, and 1 out of 4 yesterday.  We also caught 2 very large snook one day while tarpon fishing, and another decently large one the day after that which was really cool.  We will have a nice stretch of weather coming up next week as it’s been fairly windy here this week for this time of year… so it might get even better!

Give me a shout if you are looking to schedule a trip.  I have plenty of days open and will probably still offer a few discounted trips to those who ask ahead of time.  But I’ve almost got enough days booked this month that I’ll probably stop offering them soon!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
Instagram: @richardstanczyk
Facebook: Islamorada Tarpon Fishing
YouTube: Bud n’ Mary’s Marina

Well back at it after a few days off during our brief encounter with Tropical Storm Laura.  We were very lucky the storm just slightly grazed us earlier in the week.  We had some 40+ mph winds and a little bit of rain, but nothing too crazy.  It did stir up the backcountry a bit which wasn’t good for fishing in the immediate days following but probably a good thing in the long run as it helps circulate water in some of those trapped areas where things get hot and stagnate in the dead of summer.  Anyways I went out yesterday and caught a bit of bait which was pretty easy, and today I had Jeff fishing with me.  We headed out early and I wasn’t sure what to expect but we’ve had 3 days since the storm passed so I figured things had probably had a chance enough to settle down.  We looked around a few spots early and stumbled into a few tarpon.  Low and behold it turned out to be a pretty red hot bite, we ended up catching 5 tarpon and jumped a few more!  So great to see and my hope is September continues to be awesome for the tarpon.  A couple years ago that was definitely the case.  We caught a few snook and a redfish later in the trip to complete the Backcountry Slam, and called it an early 3/4 day.  I’m fishing again tomorrow and have a good handful of days already booked in September.  But pretty good availability so if you are itching to come down give me a shout… it can be some pretty big fishing in the early Fall here as you can see.  I’m more than happy to move things around too if we have the threat of any more storms or anything like that.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
Instagram: @richardstanczyk
Facebook: Islamorada Tarpon Fishing
YouTube: Bud n’ Mary’s Marina