October 2019

Fun day filming episode 3 of the Bud n Mary’s YouTube show. We had our friend Capt Jim out today along with my dad. Fishing was pretty good we ran deep in the Backcountry. Decent snook bite with a few reds mixed in. Plenty of Jack’s and ladyfish. Jim had a big 100+on tarpon eat a jig that broke off. We finished the day with some trophies though! Dad got a snook close to 20 lb, and I got a red close to 15 lbs! Jim got a good handful of nice reds to close out as well. Will let you know when the show is out next week!

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
Instagram: @richardstanczyk
Facebook: Islamorada Tarpon Fishing

Awesome half day for Sun and John. Lots of snook and Goliath’s, handful of reds, 1 for 2 baby tarpon, and all the 12 to 15 inch mangrove snappers you wanted. Incredible!  The day before we had the same crew, plus their friends Tom and Grayson.  4 people which is a crowd but will do it on occasion as long as everyone realized we gotta take turns fishing and that kind of thing.  But we went in the backcountry, was really windy the day before and muddy as heck.  But we still picked away, a few black drum and snook to start.  Then a mixed bag with some jacks, trout, reds, etc…  Then at the end of the day when the tide got high we crushed some nice reds and snooks so awesome finish!  We’re back to filming our YouTube show this Wednesday and fishing a few more days at the end of the week.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
Instagram: @richardstanczyk
Facebook: Islamorada Tarpon Fishing

Last couple of days. Fishings been good! Now the wind machine is cranking up for a little bit might make things a little tougher. But yesterday great day filming the new Bud n Mary’s YouTube show with my dad, clay and bill broach. Lots of snook, redfish, couple monster black drums including Bills biggest ever, had a tarpon on for 10 minutes that we opened the hook on, small Goliath’s and finished with a nice tripletail. It’ll be another epic episode! And today was just fun fishing with Frank Come and my sister in law Sara. Lots of redfish, snook, black drum including a handful of nice 10 to 15 lb fish. And a couple small Goliath’s.

Capt. Rick Stanczyk
Instagram: @richardstanczyk
Facebook: Islamorada Tarpon Fishing