Month: March 2017

FLORIDA KEYS FAMILY FISHING TIME This time of the year the vast majority of the charter business is made up of families down enjoying spring break. The boats leaving the docks look like school buses, loads of smiling kids and

BEGINNER’S LUCK AND A GREAT CAPTAIN MAKES THE DIFFERENCE Earlier this week I had the pleasure of meeting Shirley and Chuck from Ishpeming Michigan, a town so small on the U.P. that no one knows the places’ correct spelling! This

ISLAMORADA FLATS FISHING UPDATE: MARCH 11 This past week was a wild one! Winter conditions still persist with windy and cold mornings and warm windy afternoons. The wind has been the one consistent thing we have had around here. Yet

WHITE MARLIN, BIG KINGS AND A SIDE OF MAHI! Capt.Brian Cone runs his charter business out of Robbie’s Marina here in Islamorada. His boat is called the Contagious and Capt. Brian knows how to run things right. This morning at

SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST FISHING. Capt.Brian Cone runs his charter business out of Robbie’s Marina here in Islamorada. His boat is called the Contagious and Capt. Brian knows how to run thngs right. This morning at 9:15 AM he

BIG JACK ATTACK! Today was a day of change. The morning started out blowing cold out of the North at about 20 mph, as the day wore on the winds dropped out to the low teens. By 2:30 PM the

NEARSHORE PATCH REEF ACTION. This morning was another record setter! The temperature was 47f at 6:45 am, when do we start selling snowmobile tours? That aside, the shallow patch reef in as shallow as 10 ft of water on out

ISLAMORADA FLATS FISHING UPDATE: MARCH 4 Whoever said something about a “Winter of discontent” was right on the money! Right when it looks like that we are going into a spring pattern another cold front smacks the whole of North