Mickey's Guide Service Fishing Reports

Today I got to fish with my father, the man who got me started on the sport when I was a little kid. The fish gods smiled on us today as we had super fishing and beautiful weather. We had big Amberjack, African Pompano, Kingfish, Grouper, Yellowtail, and on and on. Key West has an amazing fishery and today we got to experience a little bit of it all both offshore and inshore. Also joining us was my Uncle Bill who I have been fishing with my whole life as well. Tonight we are eating fresh fish and drinking big. A day we’ll never forget.

I haven’t had many chances to type up fishing reports because we barely have enough time to eat and shower (when we get the weather to fish). The offshore fishing was much better today, we got covered up with Mahi into the mid-teens for a couple hours. We found a big weed line with tons of flying fish and Dolphin stacked underneath and we fished the hell out of it and put a lot of meat in the cooler. We’ve also had a lot of Grouper, Bonita, Sharks, Kingfish, and all of the Yellowtail you could ask for. We dropped a Sailfish today 10 minutes into our first drift, a lot of action. Things will hopefully continue to improve. Check out these pics–Zach today with a nice Mahi, Little Michael with a nice Red Grouper, and what was once a nice Black Grouper that got chomped by a 6 foot Blacktip Shark just as we were about to lift him in the boat.

Check out this cool video from today of a nice Hammerhead we landed while flying kite baits for Sailfish. Today we had Drew and his father Mike out for a full day of offshore fishing where we caught a little bit of everything. The highlight for sure was this nice Hammerhead that went batshit on a live bait and took a half hour to land. I edited the video down to about 3 minutes. We had some nice Kingish, Grouper, Snapper, and Macks as well. Enjoy!

Today we had a good day of trolling offshore with David and Crooks with a great Mahi bits as well as the usual Kings and Bonita mixed in for good measure and semi-steady action. The wind finally laid down enough for us to get back tothe blue water which is the only place I want to be right now. Heard about a couple of Sailfish on the radio which is what we’ve been waiting for, they are balled up just to our North and we’re waiting for a little cold front (alright not too cold) to push them down our way. A beautiful day on the water once again–they’re all beautiful days down here though honestly.

Today we had Nate and Tasha out for a stellar day of fishing. We caught Grouper after Grouper after Grouper, and Kingfish/Spanish/Ceral Macks, and the largest Mangrove Snappers any of us have ever seen. We could do no wrong today and easily broke the 100 fish mark with too many quality fish to begin counting. We also had Bonita, Yellowtail, Jack Crevalle, Mutton Snapper, etc. A mind blowing day of fishing on both bait and jigs. Wow.

We had beautiful weather for a day on the water and a great bite to go along with it. We had repeat customer Jim Whalen on the boat today and he always brings good luck and good weather with him. We had a ton of action today with 7 or 8 nice Kingfish coming to the boat as well as a half dozen nice big fat Bonito, Red Grouper, Jewfish, Flag Yellowtail, and a Blackfin Tuna. The Sailfish bite hasn’t really turned on yet but for the 2nd trip in a row we raised one in the spread but he wouldn’t bite. A really solid trip after 4 days of wind keeping us at the dock.

Today we had Hope and John as our charter visiting from New Hampshire and they got to experience one of the more memorable days of fishing we’ve had this Fall. They had caught their legal limit by 8:15 this morning and after that we played catch and release until our arms were sore. I know it’s a good day when we have get the push cart to move this fish from the boat to the cleaning station because our fish box is too heavy to carry by hand. It was a long, freezing cold ride in the dark to the fishing grounds but worth every bit of suffering for the action we had today. Awesome, legendary, whatever you wanna call it, that’s what it was.

-Mickey
Yesterday we had Corbin and Ellen for more incredible early morning Striper action. We boated a ton of fish in short time and had an interesting and fun day on the water.

Jigging was good today with repeat customers Scott and Bill. We had a lot of throwbacks and undersized Bass but we did manage to put together a respectable box with some monster Bluefish in the mix as well. Looks like some rain is moving into our area tomorrow but we’ll be back at it Thursday and Friday. Fishing is still very good right now.

-Mickey

Today we had Bill and Michael on the boat for more non-stop Striper action. We arrived at the fishing grounds as the sun came up and the Bass were feeding once again with the same intensity we’ve experienced all week. After quickly jigging 6 nice Bass and 6 monster Bluefish things dropped off for a couple of hours and didn’t pick up again until 11am. We started trolling umbrella rigs to pass the time and caught our legal limit that way but kept fishing regardless. The fish came back to the surface around noon and we left them biting as the birds started to return and the morning’s action seemed to start all over again. There is a great bite out there right now to the South of our inlet and we will be back at it again first thing tomorrow morning. The fish are gorging themselves on sand eels so jigs are all you really need right now; probably the most fun way to catch Bass.

-Mickey