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.
