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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 range plus lots of mud etc.... from the 25+ MPH wind. However yesterday we had a great day fishing with Lars, Oscar, and Paige over from Sweden. It was flat calm and actually a little hot out for this time of year. We caught spanish mackerel, trout, ladyfish, jacks, bluefish, snappers, tripletail, blacktip sharks, a big bull shark, and a couple 150 lb goliath groupers! It's amazing the difference a day can make! Capt. Ben Ekblom did report leaving a bit later, staying much closer to home, and had the mangrove snappers biting. Earlier this week 5 backcountry captains had the Cohen family on their annual flamingo fishing trip. Young Ben Cohen caught redfish and more with Capt. Skip Nielsen. The rest of the family also caught plenty of reds, trout, and crevalla jacks. Jan 4th with Capt. Skip, Tony Honour from Pagham, England fished and caught snook and redfish. All of Skip's anglers use Fox sportfishing tackle while fishing. Also included is a large 30 lb kingfish caught near nine mile bank Dec. 30th with Joe DesRosier and Sarah Avigne. The kingfish ate a smaller spanish mackerel rigged for sharks. Capt. Mark Hlis also on Jan 4th had Chen Wong from LA who caught a nice 10 lb redfish on fly in less than ideal conditions. Capt. Dave Sisung also had some action the other day with mackerel, trout, snapper in the gulf plus some blacktip sharks. He also had a young man catch a few nice redfish around Islamorada as well. It does look like the cold should be over with after today with temperatures getting back into the 70 degree range tomorrow. Suppose to still be a little breezy out of the north east, but nothing like today. After thing settle down january islamorada fishing should get more productive again!
Capt. Rick Stanczyk
This Fishing Report was submitted on 1/7/2014 11:51:25 AM by Seamus and last updated on 1/8/2014 11:51:25 AM.
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