Inshore action on windy days

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.

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Battle of the Bulls

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.

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Cooler temperatures hotter fishing

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.

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