Southbound
Catch of the Day

As I mentioned in yesterdays “catch of the day”, it was a tough day fishing. Hate it when that happens, but if you do this for a living, sooner or later it will happen. I was hoping for a better day today Today started out slow. First of all, the weather...

This is a great job. I really like being on the waters of Key West, Florida. I really enjoy seeing the wildlife I get to see. After 26+ yrs, I have so many regular customers that have become my friends. I understand when we go out fishing, some days will be good and...

  The offshore has still been a little show and we caught a lot of bottom fish yesterday. So we decided to continue with inshore fishing on some of the wrecks today. We were looking for some bigger fish. We got some live bait and started dropping on some wrecks....

The folks I have on board today have fished with me the last 6 or 7 years. The always take advantage of my vacation package and fish 3 full days. They do like to take fish home, but they also enjoy just catching fish for the fun and the action. Today is their first...

Fortunately, there has been great bonito action inshore, because the dolphin fishing offshore has been tough. There has not been a lot of fish and there has been a lot of throw-back sized fish. The Sargasso weed looks great. Big patches as big as the boat, but we are...

We had a 6 hr trip today. We only had 3 people. A very nice couple and, I believe, one of their moms. The couple had fished before, but Mom had never caught a fish in her life. I wanted to go for some quick bites so I started inshore and just outside the reef. We got...

Still catching dolphin. Most of the dolphin we are catching are smaller fish. They are called “chicken dolphin”. Don’t ask me why. They were called that before I started fishing and the will probably be called that long after I’m gone. but when...

Still beautiful weather and still beautiful blue water offshore. We are having to work for it a bit, but we are caught more Mahi-Mahi again today. There is a lot of scattered weed and too many “throwback ” dolphin, but if you work it you can come up with a...

We had a full day charter today. Only two people and they had fished with me before. We started out fairly close to Key West, I didn’t want to overrun the fish. It’s been difficult because we are still catching a few Mahi, but one day they are inshore and...

We had 2 trips today and it proved that fishing can change from morning to afternoon on the same day. I was not the Captain today. I took the day off and had a good friend and had Capt. Craig Jiovani. Capt. Craig is a good captain with lots of experience. Until he...

Starting to feel really “snake bit” lately. We were offshore dolphin fishing today and we missed another Blue Marlin. Actually, I shouldn’t say we missed. We definitely hooked it. Unfortunately, it also “chewed” through the leader. It...

Fished a full day today. We didn’t do much until we got out deep. We kept going South until we were out past the “Wall”. The “Wall”, also known as the  “Drop off” or “Woods Wall”, is about 17 miles south of Key...