February 5, 2012

We 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 up and cut through it.  Oh well, was a great 
day fishing for these chaps!


Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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