Always Have a Plan B When You Go Fishing

Well one of my buddies Andy wanted to go sword fishing and needed some help, so I came along to catch one of these stupendous creators. We made two drops before his reel crapped out. We couldn’t get it fixed so we went to plan B. Plan B was to use the electric reel and [...]

Key West Inshore 8-12-10

Fished the backcountry this morning.  What a day.  Weather was great and we had fish in front of the boat all day.  Water temps in the morning around 82 -  83 degrees.  Lots of baby tarpon in the morning and big schools of small permit.  Finished the day off with three nice bonefish. It was [...]

Offshore Fishing Report: Over and Back Again Finding the Fish

MARATHON, Florida Keys — Hey everyone, I have a great report for ya! We decided to run across the pond to look for yellowfin tuna and dolphin since the fishing on this side has dried up a bit. We left the dock about 3:00AM to get some pilchards out on the reef. They weren’t super [...]

Key West Offshore Report – July 2010

Traditionally, July is a great month in Key West for running offshore and finding large schools of small to medium size keeper dolphin, with an occasional large bull or cow thrown in; medium size wahoo under floating objects; and  the rare but ever present chance of encountering a blue or white marlin. However, this year, [...]

Captain Marlin Scott – Key West Flats Grand Slam

Last Thursday afternoon I called Captain Marlin Scott to go flats fishing with me on Friday.  In particular I wanted to take him bonefishing.  I got his voicemail and left him a message telling him we have perfect weather and the fishing is incredible right now.  A couple hours later I got the return call [...]

From 7 Mile Marina in Marathon…..

Over the weekend catch: Capt. Chris Morin: Walk A Bout Charters … huge muttons & mangrove snapper Capt. Tom Beck: Sea Phantom Charters … Big Black Grouper, Red Grouper, Mangrove Snapper, Muttons Capt. Howard Kelly: Fin Chaser Charters … Huge Mangrove (Night Fishing) Dan – 7 Mile Marina

On the Water Art

They’re coming to take them away hay, hay. They’re coming to take them away hay, hoe.  And for those of you who enjoy fishing it is time to avoid the madness that is Lobster season. Even thought the shallow water reefs are under attack does not mean you can’t get out for some great fishing [...]

Fishing Report July 26th

Water is clear, about 83 – 85 degrees and really good tides.  No ill affects from Tropical Storm Bonnie.  The day Bonnie was near it was the calmest day we have had in over a week.  It’s been a bit cloudy making sight fishing pretty tough but not impossible.  Found a lot of bonefish yesterday, [...]

Catching the Rarest Fish in the Keys

MARATHON, FL —This past week we fished 40 miles west of Key West for yellowtail and grouper.  The bite was on for the yellowtails.  We placed a block of chum in the bag and it wasn’t five minutes when we were pulling in our first flag yellowtail.  We had blue runners about five pounds swimming [...]

No Oil Here, Just Lots of Fish and Sunshine

MARATHON, Florida Keys — This week we were inundated with lots of small dolphin offshore, with a few bigger ones. Break out your ruler because most of them are close. One day there were decent schoolies from 6-9 pounds, real quality fish, but they weren’t eating, and they wouldn’t stay with the boat. The full [...]

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