Regional Fishing Reports for:
Florida Keys and Florida Bay

Key West and Lower Keys - Permit are back! Permit are back in large schools on the patch reefs and shoals and we are hooking up daily. Grand Slam fishing has returned with warmer water as predicted. Let's hope it continues!If it gets cooler again with North winds (if March more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Key West and Lower Keys - March's Lion Still Roars with Cool NW Winds Four days ago (Sunday, March 18, 2001) Greg Persbacker cast a Black Death fly to a string of Tarpon on the Gulf side flats of the Lower Keys in about 6 feet of water on a sandy bottom. The lead fish ign more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Key West Fishing Report - Offshore - The fishing has been so good that it has been difficult to find the time for a fishing report, but here goes. The Gulfstream has pushed up to the face of the reef from the Dry Tortugas to at least American Shoals. This has brought an abundance of bla more...
Capt. Ralph Delph - Key West

Key West and Lower Keys - Permit are Marching! Permit have returned with a vengeance during the past several days, though they are still a bit unsettled with the winds changing so often. Here is a sketch from a photo of an angler with a nice 21 pound Permit taken on March more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Marathon, Florida Keys - Offshore - Dolphin & Tuna Lots of happy anglers ventured offshore the past couple of days here off of Marathon and the middle Keys! Quite a few decent schoolie Dolphin have been coming in from just beyond the reef in 120-200 ft of water. Today more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon

Key West and Lower Keys - And The Wind Blows... We have had a wind event the past few days, as the massive east coast cold front has stretched into the Keys waters. Forecasts have us back into good fishing by the weekend. Before the front swept through we were catching B more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Marathon, Florida Keys - Tarpon Are Bustin' Loose! We usually start seeing the first few LARGE Tarpon that show up on their migratory track in the Marathon area around Feb. 1st. or so. This year, the Tarpon action has been getting better and better the past couple of wee more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - The wind has been a problem over the last week. However, the fishing has been good. On the offshore grounds. The sails have turned off in Islamorada, however, they continue to bite off key largo. The kings are being caught on a regular basis with mor more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

Marathon, Florida Keys - Sailfish Heat Up The Sailfish action here off of Marathon has warmed up lately with some outstanding catches happening. It has been a bit inconsistant, but three of the past 5 days have been excellent for charter boats targeting Sailfish. Saturd more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon

Key West and Lower Keys - Bones invade Gulf Flats Bonefish are beginning to show more and more on the Gulf flats. We were actually hunting for tailing Permit when we happened upon schools of Bones. At first they seemed spooky, but after the water temp reached 74 degrees fa more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West