This month was a real mixed bag on our 24’ trolling, bottom fishing, reefs, backcountry, and lobster territory. Bottom fishing in the shallow/ calm backcountry has produced some high quality mangrove, lane, and mutton snappers in large numbers. Some trips catching their allowed limits. No shortage of big 100lb + lemon sharks that you’ll need to race for your dinner. Nicer weather days we have fished on the patch reefs just south of Key West. Red grouper, yellowtail snapper, and a verity of types of mackerel. Even did a catch n cook woth spadefish (a first for me). If you have lobster on your mind, well so do we! Many of our shallow water honey holes have been picked clean this late in the season. 6hr + lobster trips gave us enough time to run 20+ miles to areas with less pressure and they are still housing some quality bugs. Lets go make some memories!

The bite has been great offshore of Key West. Wahoo have been caught on almost all recent trips. Mahi are a plenty with a few of our trips catching our boat limit this week. We did have one day last week without much happening offshore, so we trolled the reef and caught a verity of mackerel including a “smoker king”. Our 35’ is perfect for trolling with its impressive outriggers, downriggers, and electric teasers. Dont forget we are one of the few Key West charter boats that has ice cold AC. Lets go get em!!!

Offshore conditions have been a little rough, but for those who muscle thru the waves have been rewarded. Lots of great sized mahi, 20lb tunas, and tons of bog bonitas. Our 35’ Carolina Classic is designed for these conditions. She keeps us stable, dry, and even has the added comfort of air conditioning.

The cooler offshore water temp is bringing our winter species. Tuna, wahoo, and sailfish all caught on our last offshore trip. All less then 15miles from the dock.

The cooler weather had brough alot of nice winter time species inshore. Starting with the nice size lane snapper being caught on the inshore and patch reefs. Cero and spanish mackeral have been plentiful both on anchor and on the troll, and have found a couple of 25"+ mutton snappers inhore.

Light winds and great conditions. We blacked out the livewell with biat and headed west. Starting our trip at a calm backcountry island we got a handful of mangrove snapper and a nice mutton snapper. After an hour we headed to some patch corals, got a nice red grouper, and a few other species. Perfect trip for holiday family fun.