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Southbound Key West Fishing Report
Capt. Richard Houde
June 30, 2010
Key West - Saltwater Fishing Report
June 28th, 2010
Yellow Tail Snapper fishing has continued to be excellent on the reef and outer bar. A steady bite of fish has been making our days easy for the last couple of weeks. It's nice when fishing is this easy. On most days we've been anchoring in one spot and staying there for the entire trip. Some days it takes a little while to get the fish to come up to the chum, but most days they're up and in the chum in a matter of minutes. Still getting some nice sized trigger fish and an occasional barracuda too.
We've had a couple of Shark trips in the last week also. The lemon sharks have been very, very cooperative, God bless ‘em. Most of the sharks have been in the 50-100 lb range. That's a pretty nice fight from a stationary boat on 30lb tackle.
STILL NO OIL IN THE KEYS, and I don't think we're going to get any. IF any oil does come out of the gulf and around the tip of Florida it will most likely be the light surface oil that can been seen in the news photos. I believe that most of that will be carried by the Gulf Stream to the South and past the Keys. To be honest, I think the Outer Banks of N.C. has as much of a threat of oil on their beaches as does the Keys. I hope it doesn't happen; because I've vacationed there and I love the beautiful beaches.lt would be a tremendous tragedy.
Most of the heavy thick oil is staying down in 2,000 ft of water, and according to a NOAA website I've been monitoring, (Visit http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/ofs/viewer.shtml?-gulfmex-cur-0-large-rundate=latest); neither the Gulf Stream nor the Loop current go that deep. They run about 500 ft deep but after that, there is simply nothing moving at that depth to push the oil around the tip of Florida. It will be very bad for the sea floor in the gulf, but it may make it easier to clean up if it stays in the deepest part of the gulf
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