NEW Florida Keys Grouper Tournament for anglers and spearfishermen!

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Editor

Captain’s Blog – April 15, 2010 – Marathon Florida Keys – Celebrate the reopening of grouper season by participating in the Florida Keys Grouper Tournament! It’s been a long four months with no grouper fishing.  The season reopens on May 1.  What better way to celebrate than by participating in the inaugural Florida Keys Grouper [...]

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Florida Keys Fishing Report for April 14, 2010

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Editor

Captain’s Blog – April 14, 2010 – Marathon Florida Keys - It’s a big week in the Keys for big time sport fishing. Billed as the world’s richest sailfish tournament, the 8th Annual World Sailfish Championship got underway last night with a kick-off party and concert featuring country artist Randy Houser.  With an expected purse at [...]

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A week of family fun fishing on the SeaSquared

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Editor

Captain’s Blog – April 8, 2010 – Marathon Florida Keys – It was family fun fishing all last week on the SeaSquared.  With the exception of one trip to the bay, I took all my groups to the patch reefs.  Limits of snapper – mangrove, yellowtail, mutton and lane – hit the fish boxes everyday, [...]

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Practice day for the Marathon Sharkathon

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Editor

Captain’s Blog – April 5, 2010 – Marathon Florida Keys – File this under “don’t try this at home.” A few of us spent the day practicing for the Marathon Sharkathon when Capt. Muzzy hit the water! Here’s the video:

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Florida Keys Fishing Report for April 7, 2010

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Editor

Captain’s Blog – April 7, 2010 – Marathon Florida Keys – The sailfish bite has been excellent when the proper tailing conditions exist.  This occurs when the Gulf Stream is close to the reef edge and there is a distinct color change in the 150- to 300-foot depths.  Tailing is the term used to describe how the [...]

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Illinois boys and a quarter day of Florida Keys fishing!

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Editor

Captain’s Blog – February 26, 2010 – She was surely a-blowin’ today but these Illy boys made the best of it! I got Michael Werner and Ryan Henze, from Galena IL, out for what ended up as a one quarter day charter.  First in my career!  But the patch reef fishing was phenomenal!  The guys [...]

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The Snyder family returns for snapper and Spanish mackerel

Posted on April 3, 2010 by Editor

Captain’s Blog – March 19, 2010 – Marathon Florida Keys – Jim Snyder brought his sons and grandson from Ohio for another trip on the SeaSquared. We headed out to the reef edge in search of yellowtail snapper, but found that fishing to be a bit slow.  So we came inside to some patches where [...]

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Posted on April 3, 2010 by Editor

As reported by Kevin Wadlow in the April 3 edition of the Florida Keys Keynoter… Ros-Lehtinen: Don’t close deep-water fishery A pending federal rule that would halt bottom fishing for deep-water grouper along the Florida coast would add to troubles facing commercial fishermen and charter-boat crews, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said Tuesday. “Generations of commercial [...]

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April Fishing Forecast for Marathon Florida Keys

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Editor

In Marathon, we await April with baited breath    Sailfish migration April heralds the beginning of a large migration of sailfish heading west for their annual spawn.  Thousands of fish pour through the Florida Straits into the Gulf of Mexico and the fishing is red hot.  It is common to see 20 or 25 fish [...]

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