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Fishing Report from the Keys!
Early April Reports
Capt. John Guastavino reports: Yesterday, we almost had a flats grand slam. Tarpon in the air for 2 spectacular jumps before jumping off the hook. Bonefish on a blistering run of a 100 yrds. before spitting out the hook, crab still intact! Permit on and battling every which way for 10 mins. rubbing its rubberlips on the   marl and grass bottom finally dislodging the hook 10 ft. from the boat!!!
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Capt. Jack Teague reports:  Permit have continued to present in good numbers on the flats of the Lower Keys backcountry.  Mixtures of large and medium sized fish, not moving too fast for the most part so offering good shots, but seeming not too interested in eating.  Two ingredients for success in catching these fish are quality, polarized sunglasses with amber or vermillion tint and accurate casting, whether fly or spin.  If you dream of catching a permit or tarpon by sight casting to them, spend some time with your gear developing accuracy of placement before you get on the casting deck of a skiff.  It will improve your odds immensely.  Tarpon have continued to show in some of our favorite venues, laid up, suspended and cruising and we expect that to continue to improve over the next few weeks as they push through from the Gulf side to the Atlantic side of the Keys.  There’s some evidence they may have already begun to appear in the Atlantic side channels as we witnessed the awe-inspiring sight of a ten foot hammerhead shark pinning one against the side of Bow Channel the other morning as we were headed offshore for a light tackle fishing trip.  A strong late season cold front arrived on Friday, March 24th, and pushed winds to near thirty knots from the north bringing January-like air temps to the Keys.  We were on the flats as the system arrived and still spotting some tarpon but the accompanying clouds sucked up our light and the fish were at the boat before we had a reasonable chance to cast to them.   As this report is written, the forecast is for continued winds of fifteen to twenty knot winds through the middle of the last week of March.  Flats fishing may be a little inhibited until the wind subsides a bit and air temps return to nomal but we anticipate that to occur relatively quickly as water temps haven’t been driven down.
Offshore, fishing has remained strong for the most part.  One twelve year old client along with his father and brother-in-law had a great half day trip last week.  He landed a twenty-eight pound cow dolphin and his brother-in-law boated an amberjack in the seventy pound range.  This time of the year, early season dolphin are often larger adults rather than the school fish of summer.  Flag yellowtail snapper, mangrove snapper and grouper have been on the agenda at the reef lately.  Cobia have been caught sporadically in various locations from the Gulf wrecks to the flats and shallow water areas of the Atlantic side.
With any luck for respite from the wind, April is shaping to have some great fishing opportunities both on the flats and offshore.  Here's some of our recent catches!

Capt. Gary Rehm reports: Hello anglers. Capt Gary Rehm here in beautiful Islamorada Florida Keys. This past week, we had to contend with 20 knot winds, but the fishing continued to be good all week. Fishing with Bob Small from Boston, we caught and released 20+ trout, 4 Redfish and 2 Snook. The Tarpon migration has started and will only get better as the weather settles. Talking with other capt., a few Tarpon in the 60/100 lb range were caught this past week. For the fly fishermen, it's time to bring out the fly rods warm up your casting arm. Don't wait! It's time to book your trip NOW! Give me a call at 305-664-2551 or visit my web site at www.fishingflkeys.com  Hope to hear from you  Thanks  Capt. Gary Rehm   ><<}}}}}'>
 



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