Today we fished a 4-hour trip starting at 8:00 a.m. We ran out about 5 miles and anchored up. We caught a bunch of ballyho and then headed out to a wreck in about 120 ft of water. We only needed to fish one spot we caught snapper after snapper a beautiful black grouper a few sharks and one monster Goliath grouper.
Today I had some great older clients that I fished with many times. Today’s weather conditions were not conducive whatsoever to going offshore. So we stayed close to the island and got to fishing almost flat calm seas all day. We caught an awesome variety of fish. By days end we had more than enough meat in the cooler and some really cool catch and release catches. Key West has so many fishing options that almost any day you can get out somewhere and have a great fishing trip. You can plan everything about your trip except for the weather being able to adapt and overcome is very important on the water.
Today I set up on the reef to do some snapper and grouper. About 10 miles from Key West we anchored in 80 feet in hopes of big yellowtail and maybe a grouper.
We had an amazing Yellowtails snapper bite. We could catch them as fast as we were putting lines in the water. So we had lots of snapper for dinner in the cooler. We turned our focus to the bottom fishing after the cooler was filled up with snapper.
The grouper fishing was good but the Bull sharks had other ideas. We lost a few nice ones so I changed the rigs. It was time to get even. We hooked 3 monsters and landed 2 out of 3 Bull. I first bowl was a little over 6 ft and definitely 200 lb and our second bowl was closer to 7 ft and easily 300 lb. Just an absolute unit of a fish.
Here in Key West the fishing really starts to heat up as the water temp begins to drop. As fall is setting in the fishing here is really heating up.
My last few trips the fishing has been awesome! We have been catching big yellow tails, mutton snappers, black groupers and so many other awesome fish species.
Summer is in full swing and you never really know what you’re going to catch. We started our day off today catching a few sharks and muttons on the reef. After that we headed offshore to a deeper wreck where we were able to catch lots of different fish on vertical jigs. We landed a few nice blackfin tunas some big amberjacks and a handful of bonitos. All in all an almost perfect 6-hour trip. We had lots of action a few big ones and plenty to take home and eat. You just can’t beat that.
Today I got to take out an awesome fathers and sons combo. Two dads and their young sons both seven and eight road out with me today on our 6-hour charter. We headed to a wreck in 150 where we caught a few barracudas and some small jacks along with eight big yellow tails we kept for lunch.
We then moved to a deeper wreck in almost 400 ft where we set up for some big jacks so the boys could battle something really big. Right away we hooked up and the boy 7 and 8 mind you teamed up and landed a nice jack about 45 lb all by themselves! After that it was one big jack after the other landing multiple fish over 40 and 50 lbs.
Today I fished a full day charter here in Key West FL, with one of my favorite crews. Cory and his dad Alberto have fished with me for years. Our first trip was not long after I started my business back in late 2017. Our game plan was to do a little bit of everything and that’s exactly what we did.
We started our morning off by catching live threadfin herring on sabiki riggs. After we had 25 to 30 baits in the livewell we headed out towards the end of the bar west of Key West. The truck was about 16 miles for out bait spot. We anchored up in 140 feet and put our live baits out. It wasn’t long before we had steady action. We caught three nice King mackerels along with lots of Bonita’s and 3 nice Blackfin tuna.
After a morning of live baiting we switch gears and started bottom fishing. We moved about 5 mi back to the east and fished a wreck in 120 ft. We caught two Black groupers and two amberjacks along with one Margate. After only a short while we moved again East to a wreck in about 110 ft where we caught four nice mutton snappers and four beautiful black groupers.
Grouper season is still closed however so all five groupers we caught today were healthily released back to be caught another day. May 1st is fastly approaching and I’m excited to be able to keep some groupers. One of the best eating and best fighting fish we have here in Key West. But to wrap things up today was a beautiful day flat calm seas comfortable temperatures lots of action truly a near perfect day on the water. Can’t thank my loyal repeats enough coming back and seeing me year after year.
So many options as far as styles of fishing here in Key West Florida. You have styles like bottom fishing, trolling, live bait, jigging, free lining, and that’s just the name the most common. Along with a numerous number of species to be caught. Everything from snappers, groupers, sharks, jacks, barracudas, mackerels, and lots and lots more.
Today we went out and fished a full day from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. . We caught close to a 10 species. We also filled the cooler up with Mutton snappers. My anglers had some Mutton for dinner and lots more to freeze and send home.
We had absolutely beautiful weather this morning. Seas were calm and the temperature was almost perfect. We started our days catching some live baits. After about 30 minutes we had all we needed. We then headed to a deep wreck in about 350 feet. We landed big Amber jacks one after the other. With our arms and backs tired it was time to put some fish in the cooler for lunch.
We headed to a wreck in 150 feet where we had all the action we could handle. We caught snappers, sharks, groupers, barracudas and that’s just to name a few. It didn’t take long and we had more than enough fish in the cooler. With the remainder of our trip we put down our biggest rod in hopes of a big sharks. We didn’t have to wait long. The fight lasted about 30 minutes to get the fish boat side. It was a 300+ lb Bull shark. A perfect ending to our Key West fishing charter. After a few pictures we let the shark go and headed for home.
