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Catch of the Day

The New Year started off with spectacular weather. Calm seas and blue skies. We slept in so everyone could “recover” from celebrating the end of 2019. I got pretty wild myself. I sat up until midnight with my nephew, Jack, and went to bed. Staying up that...

We finished the year with a long day on the water. We fished a 6 hr trip in the morning and a 4 hr trip after that. That means it’s dark when we get to the boat and dark when we leave. Charter boat crews sleep very well this time of year. This was a pretty good...

The week between Christmas and New Year is usually the busiest time of year in Key West. That goes for the Charter Boat Too. The weather just before Christmas was horrible, but fortunately, it has been beautiful since Christmas for the most part. Hopefully, this is a...

The holiday season here in Key West. That means you get a lot of families on the boat spending quality family time together. These days with way too many kids having their nose stuck in their phone and oblivious to everything around them, it is still as important as...

I have said many times, I like fishing with live bait when I can. There has been a decent amount of Ballyhoo, (baitfish) on the reef in the last few days. We’ve had just enough “cool” weather to push it out from the shallow inshore waters. Still not...

This time of year is one of my favorite times of year to fish. When conditions are normal, we usually stop on the reef and net some live ballyhoo, (baitfish) and then slow troll them along the reef looking for mackerel, Snapper, Grouper and barracuda or we go out...

Today started out as a very Ugly day! It rained most of the night and many of the boats canceled or postponed their trips. It really wasn’t blowing very hard. The rain was steady, but not a real heavy downpour. So we decided to go for it. I knew there was a...

The folks I have onboard are very easy going. As long as the rod is bent they are happy. I have them for multiple days and today they just wanted to keep busy. They also wanted a little fish for dinner. We made the decision to go Snapper fishing today. We were mostly...

We had two trips today. Both half-day trips. In the morning we caught a Sailfish today. To be honest, it wasn’t a really, really big sailfish. As a matter of fact, it wasn’t a normal-sized sailfish. It was a little guy. It was probably only about 3 ft or...

Normally I like to leave early by Key West standards. While many other areas leave at 4,5 or 6 am to get to their fishing grounds, We are lucky here, we don’t have that far to run. So we don’t have to leave as early. Considering the “party”...

I’ve been fishing these waters for over 30 yrs and I’m more than willing to spend all day looking for one specific fish. I can wait all day for a Sailfish if that is what it takes. That being said, I’m not the one paying for the fishing trip. My...