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Brr it's chilly here in the south Florida Keys but the fishing has been red hot with the latest cold front to push through this december in islamorada. Yesterday the winds laid down to almost nothing just a light breeze of 5 mph out of the north in the morning, switching to the southeast in the afternoon. We ran out into the gulf in the morning and caught the start of the falling tide. After chumming for a bit we had the spanish mackerel biting very good and it was all the action you could handle for a solid hour and a half. Most fish in the 3 lb range though a handful of 5 lbers. Fishing the gulf of mexico is a good bet on calm, cool days such as this and you don't have to beat other boats to the 'hot spot' as can often be the case on busy days in the flamingo area. After we had our fill we went to flamingo and hit a few spots I haven't been too in a while. It was nice as we did not see any other boats in the first area I hit, and fishing was spetacular. We had a solid snook bite for a good hour or so, plus got a handful of redfish and sheepshead. After that we hit some of the channel run-offs on the end of the falling tide, but did not do much else... but still a spectacular day florida keys inshore fishing in december. Capt. Skip Nielsen had Tom and Wendy Sims, long time Bud n Marys customers, out the day before. Not quite as nice a day wind wise but it wasn't too bad fishing the nearby patch reefs. They got some nice hogfish for the cooler, plus plenty of other fish including a variety of snappers, gorgeous trigger fish, and other patch species. Capt. Mike Venezia had a couple days filming with Copout Adventures. They had a good day in the backcountry a couple days ago with redfish, trout, sheepshead, and sharks. Then yesterday hit the florida keys patch reefs for hogfish, porgies, lane snappers, and some mutton snappers. Capt. Bill Bassett several days ago reported a backcountry slam in the afternoon they caught plenty of snook, a few redfish and sheepshead, and topped it off with a 30lb tarpon on light tackle. Capt. Bill also had some very nice size mangrove snappers yesterday and a few juvenile groupers off of a sunken boat they found in the nearby gulf of mexico. Capt. Jeff Beeler had some good patch fishing yesterday as well with some nice hogfish for the cooler. My brother Nick and our friend Capt. Dave Peck who visits in the winter from NC for a few months had a good day in the east cape sable fishing. They had solid snook action in the morning with several nice size fish. This weekend looks to be nice weather it should start slowly warming up though the winds are suppose to stay light to moderate out of the north. Business is picking up and the phones are ringing, christmas week is just around the corner. If your looking to get out fishing islamorada in december, give us a call we can get you out on the water!
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
This Fishing Report was submitted on 12/12/2014 8:10:16 AM by Seamus and last updated on 12/15/2014 8:10:16 AM.
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