Tag: Bn’M II

December 3, 2014 Key Largo Reef Fishing Report

The winter time fishing in Key Largo has been action packed lately. I fish just twenty minutes south of Key Largo, and we have been catching both pelagic species and bottom dwellers. A few of my charters wanted to focus on big fish, so we spent much of the day kite fishing with live bait. Each day we put in atleast a couple hours doing that we had shots at sailfish, releasing them on 3 of my last 4 trips. Now winter time is definitely not prime time for mahi mahi, but I always say you never know what you’re going to catch off the Florida Keys! One day we had 2 young kids and their parents, and they caught a double digit number of mahi, and the day before we caught half a dozen. There’s been a couple blackfin tuna and king mackerel around the reef and wrecks too. While bottom fishing on the reef we’ve been catching plenty of fish for a few dinners while you’re on vacation too. We’ve had all sorts of snapper, including yellowtail, mangrove, and mutton. As well as a few red and black grouper. Grouper season closes on January 1st, so make sure to get out there this December and catch a few for dinner! Let me know if you’d like to book a private fishing charter on my boat the Bn’M II, which is at Bud n’ Mary’s at mile marker 79.8. Send me an email to bnmcharters@gmail.com

Capt. Nick Stanczyk

 

8/21/14 Deep Sea Fishing report south of Key Largo

We get a lot of people who come down to go fishing in Key Largo, and they are more than willing to drive the extra 20 minutes south to where the best offshore fishing in the Florida Keys is! The fishing conditions are changing a little bit offshore now, with the mahi thinning out some, but the blackfin tunas becoming more reliable on the humps. There’s also some big sharks around too. We should see mahi and tuna the next couple months, but the mahis probably won’t be as good as they were in June and July. The swordfishing charters have been consistent overall this summer, We’ve been catching fish on about 75% of our charters, and some days yielding multiple fish. the biggest one we had this summer was 212 lbs, and most are 50 – 120. It takes patience though, because you are fishing for a bite or two all day. We had some big “slammer” mahi this summer, including a 57 lb bull on the Bn’M II. I have my boat, the Bn’M II,  1995 36′ Jersey Devil Express Sportfish boat for sale, if anyone is interested. If you’d like to go fishing send me an email at bnmcharters@gmail.com and I’ll try to get you out!

Capt. Nick Stanczyk