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Mill House Podcast

Episode 105: Capt. Nick Stanczyk - Stanz Fishing

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5973 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Daytime swordfishing began in Venezuela when Aquiles Garcia and Captain Oscar Benito Marcano used a bag of rocks to get their bait down to where these prized fish swim in extreme depths during daylight hours. In 1997, on the La Guaira bank many Captains started to target these billfish with confidence. It wasn’t refined until two brothers, Richard and Scott Stanczyk started to consistently catch them in the Florida Keys around 2002. But it was Richards son, Nick, that took the swordfish game to new heights catching an estimated 2,000 fish with a personal best of a 757lber. Nick grew up on the docks in the sport fish capital of the world (Islamorada) and began catching snappers before he could walk. He later attended the University of Miami but always knew he was going to make his living on the water. Nick has gained a massive audience in the last 8 years with social media and marketing himself as the guy that consistently catches broadbill swordfish. Currently he is taking more time off spending time with his family and growing his YouTube and Stanz fishing apparel line. Although, if you want to catch one of these monsters of the deep he still remains one of the top captains in this genre of fishing. On todays podcast, Nick talks about his family’s relationship with swordfish and his profound legend of catching them...

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Duck Camp makes outdoor goods so you can outdoor good. From the shallow water flats to the

0:08.0

Mallard Field Marshes, Duck Camp is there to make you feel comfortable and enhance the quality of your time and the elements.

0:15.0

Not only do they make some of the best outdoor apparel on the market,

0:19.0

but they support many of the organizations near and dear, fighting for a resource in the natural world.

0:26.0

Check them out at duckamp.com and tell them we sent you. Starting from a 90 year old family recipe, wickles are wickedly

0:38.2

delicious pickles packed with garlic and peppers, a staple in our skiff and all shoreline lunches.

0:44.4

Originating from Sims Grandmother's kitchen to a pantry near yours.

0:48.8

From pickles, okra, relishes and spreads,

0:52.3

check them out to elevate all of your meals to the Florida Keys and sword fishing, few stand out like Captain Nick Stansic.

1:16.6

Nick's family has owned and operated, but and Mary's Marina since 1978, and that is where he cut his teeth catching snappers off the sea wall.

1:26.0

He later put all of his focus into trying different swordfish techniques

1:31.0

that would separate him from the average charter boat. To date,

1:34.8

Nick has been a part of over 2,000 swordfish catches and counting. On today's

1:40.4

podcast we dive into the intricacies of a fishery 1800 feet down.

1:47.0

We broke everything, we broke lines lines we broke cooks we broke rods we broke our minds we broke

1:58.8

marriages we broke the whole thing we came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest pair of pain he's went to pot.

2:10.0

I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the other way so I doubled them both ways.

2:17.0

But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.

2:21.0

I got him on. All right now, we're going to teach him on. I'm all right now.

2:24.0

I'm going to teach him a lot so.

2:26.0

I'm just an old guy that likes to fish and I'm not quitting yet.

2:30.0

And he said, well who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?

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