Fishing in Key West

The weather has been beautiful in the Florida Keys of late, with calm seas, gorgeous sunny days, and light south to southeast winds ranging from ten to twenty knots.

This week started off beautifully. Perfect skies, bright sun, warm temperatures, and best of all, lots of activity out on the water. The week was especially successful for our offshore deep-water captains, who reported back catches of everything from Yellowtail Snapper to Blackfin Tuna.

It is almost May in the Keys which means it's almost officially summer time! May also marks the official start Key West tarpon fishing season, even though as our past few reports have showed, the tarpon have been around earlier than normal this year.

Lady Fish are known as the “Poor Man’s Tarpon”. They have a few similarities to the tarpon but are less exaggerated and smaller.

While we are still in the thick of tarpon fishing in Key West, this past week has seen more of a focus on other species, both in the shallow flats areas and the deeper offshore fishing sites.