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My morning trip was with Owen and David and we started off tarpon fishing finding a few and throwing flies and baits but it was an eco tour.  We switched off to bonefish which was also slow with the highlight was David hooking a stingray. 

Most of my fishing the last 2 weeks has been out of Key Largo. I’ve running to back country getting ready for the Take Stock in Children tournament. I fished one day out of Flamingo with John Foss and had a really good day. On his first cast h

SPECIAL SHARK FISHING REPORT! The Lady Pamela Sportfishing Team is on some of the most intense Shark Fishing that South Florida has seen in years! The action has been truly unbelievable with some “bucket list” catches! We remain open for

We’ve got a variety of sharks in my region that you can fish for including blacktip lemon bull and hammerhead sharks. The best shark fishing takes place in the late spring and early summer when the tarpon have migrated to our coast and the sha

Water temperatures are back to a normal spring like level and there have been a handful of tarpon around. Normally march tarpon fishing charters are the norm especially as we near April. Today Capt. Ben Ekblom one of Bud n' Mary's new guides

Bull Shark

The Islamorada Fishing Trips have been really good the last couple of days here at Bud N Mary's Marina. Almost every boat has been fishing and there's been lots of different fish to catch. The Sailfish have been a little scarce but we did ma

Wednesday 6/24/15 Captiva fishing catch of the day! Bull Shark. Captiva fishing Wednesday 6/24/15 catch & release bull shark inshore of Sanibel!  For more photos and/or fishing reports from our other Captains’ boats from other marinas

Capt. Rick Stanczyk had Bob Davidson and crew out for a day of fishing the gulf of mexico on 7/28/12. We started off some of the banks that line the edge of everglades national park and the gulf. The bite was hot with a mix of big ladyfish sea trout

Unlike a lot of areas of the state where you can sight cast cobia free-swimming along the beaches in the Southwest Region we find our fish either on wrecks or on the grass flats. On the southern end of my region from Ft. Myers Beach all the way down

It's been a gorgeous week here while fishing is Islamorada. October is still a transistional month and we are seeing a little bit of everything. It can be tough to predict what you will catch this time of year but I can assure you there's al

The weather still is pretty nice though it has been breezy the last few days. However the nice thing about the backcountry fishing in Islamorada is you can almost always run a path that keeps you out of the nasty choppy water/weather and figure out

The wind has been steady out of the NE about 15 - 18 knots the past couple of days making the seas a little choppy but not too bad for most. The Islamorada Sailfishing slowed down a little bit but the boats that have been patient and putting their t

It's been a busy few days here in Islamorada at Bud n' Mary's Marina. It seems like a lot of people are down here for Thanksgiving. We had some windy and rainy weather at the end of last week but a handful of boats still fished in it. Th

We had another late season cold front move through last night and early this morning. Temperatures didn't drop a ton but the wind went from a strong south east breed a few days ago all the way to the west and then from the north this morning. Wi

The Reel Candy has been fishing consistently this past month which doesn't allow for much time on the computer. The dolphin bite has picked up considerably with a few sailfish still lingering. We've been picking up some big bull sharks and ho

It's 2013 here now for our Islamorada Fishing Trips and the Deep Sea Fishing Charters started out the new year with plenty of fish. Yesterday only a couple boats fished but the Reel McCoy had a banner day and manage to catch and release 11 Sailf

Recently got back from a great trip to South Carolina with my family and with Capt. Gary (Kongo Charters) and his family.  It's amazing how fast you forget what day it is!    We did a lot of relaxing fishing biking and hangin

Today we had the first cold front of the year and only the seconds real cold snap of the winter season. It was a brutal ride and fishing was not very productive for us running deep into the backcountry today freezing cold water in the low 60 degree