Well September is almost officially over. I haven’t been fishing a ton and Capt. Stephen and Capt. Trent both took good long vacations over the last couple of months. We also got knicked by hurricane helene but luckily came out virtually unscathed. I’m getting the boats together we’re almost finished totally redoing the seacraft with a new wiring job, new paint, and a new 200 HP yamaha. So she’ll be all ready to go here in a couple of weeks for when Capt. Trent is back again. And Capt. Stephens Contender we’ve done a little bit of maintenance on and it’ll be ready for season as well. I myself traded in my 25 Contender for the new 23 Bay which I’m very excited about. Haven’t gotten it wet yet but hopefully sometime this week or next. Fishing has been decent the last couple of months there’s been a variety of things going on. Tarpon in the everglades have been good on & off. September I had some pretty decent fishing back there which was good to see. October can yield some awesome fishing for resident tarpon as we start to get the fall bait run so that’s something to look forward to. We’ve had some good snook fishing in the backcountry too not supe red hot all the time, but overall decent and a few days with some good big ones around. Capt. Stephen has done some local fishing for permit and bonefish lately and that has been really good! They had trips with multiple bonefish recently and got a nice big 25 lb permit on one day around the bridges which was really cool. If you are looking to go fishing in October it’s a great time to be here as mentioned with the bait runs going on and it’s still a little slower with business so you get the fishing more to yourself. We also just fished the Keys Kids fishing derby and my son Felix got 1st place which was really cool with a nice 2.5 lb mangrove snapper. Come down and take the kids fishing this fall you won’t regret it!
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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