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The warm winter continues to march on here in the Florida Keys as is the case throughout the whole US east coast. Over the weekend we had a mild front though it didn't get as cold as we hoped, barely down into the high 60s maybe at night. The winds were cranking though we had a couple days of it blowing 25-30 mph, but looks to be letting up some starting tomorrow and will be more of a southeast breeze. Fishing before, during, and after the front has held up pretty good luckily most of our winter time fishing has been decent even though it hasn't been cold. Capt. Rick Stanczyk had reported good fishing before the front running into the gulf and the everglades. He had good mackerel fishing out west, with some tripletails on many of the crab pot bouys mid day, and then finished several afternoon days with a good catch of snook and a few redfish. It was a good routine for several days while the tides were right for it. During the front he made it out to the patches and caught some good eating porgy, hogfish, and snapper, and even got his anglers on a nice 15 lb permit! Today they fished the gulf on a half day and he reported red hot mackerel action with some nice mangrove snappers mixed in. Capt. Jim Willcox has been getting deep into the glades and the wind hasn't bothered him once back there. He has reported a mixed bite of redfish, black drum, and snook. Having to work around a bit, the fish aren't stacked up in the winter time holes since it hasn't been cold, but they are back there. Capt. Bill Bassett reported a good day with some nice reds and a couple snook way back in the 'glades a little over a week ago. He also has had some good action with the mackerels in the near gulf. Capt. Mike Bassett reported a few snook around the mainland creeks and also got a nice black drum and 40 lb tarpon the other day. They had to head in early due to weather chasing them back but made a good day of it. Capt. Perry Scuderi had some good action fishing out on the patches last week too before it got windy. He reported some nice hogfish, bar jacks, porgies, and various other species great for the table. Capt. Clyde Upchurch was able to get out during the wind over the weekend they stayed close to not get beat up and were able to catch a variety of thing including plenty of mangrove snapper for dinner. The weather for christmas week looks to be very warm and a slight southeast breeze which won't be too bad at all in the backcountry. Fishing should remain good. We may have a very early start to the tarpon season if this warm weather holds out through January.
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
This Fishing Report was submitted on 12/21/2015 4:16:07 PM by Seamus and last updated on 12/25/2015 4:16:07 PM.
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