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It's been an unusual year here in Islamorada with our recent weather patterns. We just had another cold front pass through yesterday which is very unusual for the Spring Time. Besides a somewhat crummy day with wind and scattered thunderstorms w

We’ve been having some great fishing on the Fish n Tales out of Fish Tale Marina over the last few weeks. Gag grouper season just opened on July 1 and we are able to continue fishing for red snapper for another week or so making our long range

It's been a while since I've posted anything so I thought I'd share a few pictures and a brief update and report. As usual we haven't had many trips the last month or 2 which is good. First mate Andrew and myself are recharged for an

January is almost over it's hard to beleive! We are currently having a cold front hit us though it's a bit unusual as it's not only cold but wet as well. Got down around 60 early this morning and some rain bands have moved through. Suppo

Spring break has been in full swing here the past couple weeks and we've had a ton of boats fishing! We are in the Spring Time fishery now which means there's a wide variety of fish not always a ton of each but you need to be ready for every

We had an extra day to fish in February this month and a few boats cashed in on it! The weather finally calmed down some this afternoon and a couple of boats put the time in searching for cobia and it paid off! There was a few 40 - 50 lbers and some

Well here is the last report for the backcountry for the year likely! Fishing has been good I've been out the last few days and was out of town for christmas to enjoy some time with the wifes family. Before I left for the holidays on the 21st we

March is here and it's been busy around town again thankfully! Many guides have been fishing just about every day. Though we've had some crazy winter weather as they've been getting all up and down the east coast. February was ridiculous

The last couple of weeks have seen the best fishing of the year so far for us aboard the Fish n Tales. The winter cold fronts have subsided and the weather has been great allowing us to run almost every day. The red grouper bite has been excellent o

Well February is just about over with and boy has it been a warm one! I think I read it's the hottest February on record in the South Florida area with it being around 8 degrees above average temperature for the entire month. We haven't had

Happy Holidays Everyone   Here is a quick update on fishing and recovery in the Keys after Hurricane Irma.  The Islamorada and Key Largo areas are starting to clean up.  A lot of the debris that was piled up on the roadside has been r

December is cruising right along and so far it's still been unseasonably warm. That means we've had a little bit of everything going on as far as the species count go. But looks like this weekend winter is coming. It's suppose to get dow

January has brought a lot of colder weather to the keys which is definitely not unusual. Actually I think we've had some of the coldest weather we've had here probably since the cold snap of 2010! Though it hasn't stayed cold we've h

The warm weather trend has continued throughout most of February and it's continued to feel like an early spring here. Today we had kind of a nasty day with heavy rain and wind though we probably needed the rain but it was a good day for me to h

Went bottom fishing most of the day. Nice warm and sunny day with 2-3 ft seas and 72 deg aqua blue water. Bottom bite was nonstop!! Caught our limit of large vermillion snapper nice trigger fish lots of red snapper that we took pictures and released

March 10 2019 – Nothing i like more than a flat calm day in March for me to get out and run. Last week provided a few of those days for us here in Key West and made many Key West anglers very happy with nice catches of yellowtail snapper red gr

When the weather allows the red grouper fishing continues to be good. The fish are farther offshore than in their close to shore summertime haunts but when we find them they are hungry eating dead baits as readily as live baits. We still always carr

It's been another great week fishing on board the Fish N Tales. The red grouper have definitely moved farther offshore but we are catching limits to near limits of fish on our 8 and 10 hour trips. Many of the grouper are over 24 up to about 30.

Great News was announced this week for Galveston Red Snapper Fishing Charters.  The 2015 Red Snapper Fishing Season will open June 1 and remain open for 44 days.  Last year after only having 9 days to allow us to catch and retain t

I have fished a couple of near shore and offshore trips over the last week or so with some excellent fishing to show for it. The 5 hour near shore trip was on the last day of gag grouper season for us in the Gulf of Mexico with Carla and Michael fro