Capt. Rick Stanczyk

4/4/20 April Deep Dropping in Islamorada for Golden Tilefish

Well a fun day spent with family and close friends yesterday deep dropping off Islamorada for some eating fish! We fished with my brother Capt. Nick Stanczyk and caught an elusive Golden Tilefish! Also a nice barrel fish and a few other smaller rosefish and a hake. One of the silver linings of dealing with this corona virus… we are spending a lot more quality family time together. Make sure to subscribe to our youtube channel, and we’ll keep the videos coming!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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April 4, 2020 by Capt. Rick Stanczyk Fishing Videos

3/31/20 Offshore Fishing for big Sharks in Islamorada

Got offshore in my bay boat yesterday just to mess around while we are all still on lockdown here. Caught some big sharks off the hump using huge amberjack as bait! Check out the YouTube video here!

Also in regards to the coronavirus, we are still more or less out of business here in the Keys. Roads are shut down to non-residents coming down from Miami indefinitely. However we’re hoping in the next couple weeks at least that will open back up so perhaps people from south florida can come down and fish. Fishing has been really good and you have the place to yourself, and it’s prime tarpon time now!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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March 31, 2020 by Capt. Rick Stanczyk Fishing Videos

3/12/20 Backcountry Tarpon Action back in business

Well we had a chilly week again but water temps finally breached 70 degrees yesterday in the backcountry. I had Reg and Lucinda whom were really after some tarpon and wanted to see it in the backcountry. I wasn’t sure it’d be good or not, but today was our day. Luckily we made it happen, not a ton of tarpon back there but enough we landed 2 and missed a 3rd. But looks like no more cold fronts in the immediate future, and the winds are going to be a standard 10-15 mph. So that should be good for tarpon fishing back there. I also have had several days open up due to corona virus fears… so check with me you could get lucky and have cherry picked awesome early season tarpon days available, because otherwise I’m more or less booked through to Mid June.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
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