Key West Light Tackle Fishing report

May report:

May fishing is one of our best months in Key West Florida. Tarpon fishing in our Key West Harbor has been phenomenal, we are hooking plenty of Tarpon using dead and live bait. Permit our gathered up in large schools on our natural reef, we site fish for them using live crabs on a jig. Our snapper and grouper have been staging up on the rising of the full moon. We consistently catch plenty of yellowtail, mangrove and mutton snappers in the day or night. May is one of our best months for the larger migrating Dolphin fish, several fish in the 50+ lb range have been taken in the past few weeks. Thank you

Capt. Damon Santelli


Offshore Fishing report

Over the past seven years the sailfish bite has been red hot in the month of April in Key West Florida. Key West host the "World Sailfish Championship" in the middle
of this month, where fishing teams come from all over south Florida and beyond to compete for over $100,000 in cash prize money. This sailfish season has had a slow
start with anglers patient enough to put a full day to catching one have been rewarded with one to three shots at sails per day. Along with seeing some sailfish, schoolie size to teenage mahi -mahi are being boated on Southerly breezes along with occasional Blackfin tuna and Bonitos. With Gulf stream water moving within seven miles of the Island this week anglers can expect the Sailfish and Mahi bite to improve dramatically.
Meanwhile anglers looking for action have not been disappointed. Bottom fishing for yellow tail snapper and grouper has been excellent west of the Island, and in the Gulf of Mexico boats are catching some smoker King Mackerel late into the season. April is a great time to fish in Key West. For an awesome day of fishing in Key West
aboard the Charter boat "Outer Limits" call Capt. Bennett Taylor.

Captain Bennett Taylor


April Reports