Islamorada Tarpon Fishing

Islamorada Tarpon Fishing Follow Capt. Rick Stanczyk and his fishing charters out of Islamorada in the Florida Keys. Also check out his YouTube Channel with great fishing content.

Islamorada Tarpon Fishing Charters with Capt. Rick Stanczyk

Great day with George we caught a tarpon early on and jumped off another as well as a variety of sharks.  The wind kicke...
07/26/2025

Great day with George we caught a tarpon early on and jumped off another as well as a variety of sharks. The wind kicked up and the tarpon weren't too happy after that. But we managed to find some finger mullet and some nice snook in the creeks and caught a strong handful of them. Had to work at it but strung a solid day together!






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Handful of bites, caught a couple, and got one up for pictures!  Lotsa summer time tarpon around still if you wanna get ...
07/24/2025

Handful of bites, caught a couple, and got one up for pictures! Lotsa summer time tarpon around still if you wanna get after the silver king.






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Some good ones out there today!
07/21/2025

Some good ones out there today!







Tarpon were chewing today!  Lots of activity the little guys kept us busy all morning. Still lots of resident fish aroun...
07/17/2025

Tarpon were chewing today! Lots of activity the little guys kept us busy all morning. Still lots of resident fish around for the later summer months. Still have a few days open later this month and plenty in August and September. DM me if you're interested!





⚒️🔨 Hammers today! One of the biggest ones I think I've seen in a minute too!                           usa
07/14/2025

⚒️🔨 Hammers today! One of the biggest ones I think I've seen in a minute too!







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Great first day back after a few weeks away for vacation!  Started the day off with a double header tarpon... Can't beat...
07/09/2025

Great first day back after a few weeks away for vacation! Started the day off with a double header tarpon... Can't beat that! They kept on biting for us and everyone got to get one to the hand. Also caught a couple sawfish which was cool, a nice tripletail, and some other sharks. Young Peyton was thrilled and has some great fish stories for his buddies back home!

I'm fishing a little more this July and have dates available. Click my link in bio to book, or DM me with any questions!






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Something a little different yesterday while on summer break up in Knoxville!
06/19/2025

Something a little different yesterday while on summer break up in Knoxville!



Some days the fish gods just smile on you!  😃Now off to Tennessee for a couple weeks but will be back 2nd week of July i...
06/12/2025

Some days the fish gods just smile on you! 😃
Now off to Tennessee for a couple weeks but will be back 2nd week of July if anyone wants to fish hit me up!








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Worked hard for one today!  They weren't biting great but we made our shot count. Did see some decent numbers of fish, h...
06/09/2025

Worked hard for one today! They weren't biting great but we made our shot count. Did see some decent numbers of fish, hopefully after the moon here they'll fire up a little more.






Fun couple of days out back!  Plenty of snook, a few goliaths and other critters, and hooked a few tarpon... got a coupl...
05/29/2025

Fun couple of days out back! Plenty of snook, a few goliaths and other critters, and hooked a few tarpon... got a couple boat side but they flopped off before we could get pictures. Summer is here, fishing is good, let's go catch 'em! Had a couple different cancellations in early June if you wanna go!







Banner day for us today after a nice little break for the holiday weekend!  Everyone got to catch a tarpon and we also g...
05/27/2025

Banner day for us today after a nice little break for the holiday weekend! Everyone got to catch a tarpon and we also got a bunch of snook, goliaths, and a redfish for a Backcountry SLAM! Have some days open in June and just got cancelled for a couple. Give me a shout to get out this summer!





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Another jumbo snook for Mike today. Tarpon weren't to be had again but we did have plenty of shark action with blacktips...
05/20/2025

Another jumbo snook for Mike today. Tarpon weren't to be had again but we did have plenty of shark action with blacktips, lemons, and hammerheads. Back at it next week!





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For the love of tarpon

Capt. Rick Stanczyk is a born and bred native of Islamorada in the Florida Keys. His family owns and operates the world famous Bud n’ Mary’s Fishing Marina located right in the heart of Islamorada, the sportfishing capital of the world. Rick’s love of tarpon fishing started when he was a young boy fishing with his father, Capt. Richard Stanczyk Sr. They would spend many evenings fishing the local channels for fish up to 200 lbs, many of which weighed twice as much as a young Rick Stanczyk! Fast forward to 2008 and Rick started his own guiding business and tarpon quickly became the focal point of his fishing charters. There may not be a game fish that is more sought after than tarpon. They are hard to catch, get incredibly large, fight very hard, are super acrobatic, and here in the Florida Keys can be caught almost all year long. There are not many guides who put as much time in focused on tarpon as Rick does. He fishes for them all year long, with exception to the handful of weeks where it is freezing cold and just not happening (though they do occasionally get lucky and still catch a few then too!) With Rick’s fishing style you can be complete novice to the sport. He will teach you how to do everything yourself and encourages you to do so, but with his live and dead bait fishing style you don’t have to be an expert caster to catch a tarpon. Please like and follow my page for my daily updated fishing reports, and you can also read my more detailed reports on my website http://www.islamoradatarpon.com