Catching bait at the Islamorada bait patch

Fishing this past week in Islamorada has seemed to be a little on the slow side. It seems as if we are just coming to the end of the change-over period. This week the Yellowtails and Mangrove Snapper bite has somewhat faded down but all the fish we are catching have been quality fish up…

With the opening of lobster season in the Fla Keys Capt. Andrew and Capt Jeff have made day and night trips targeting these tasty crustaceans. While on the bottom some of the divers got some nice conch pictures also. Mahi fishing has produced and a few of are trips have done mixed trips finding lobsters…

Capt Andrew, Has had the Pretty work out the last few days and reports, yellowtailing is good as it gets limits of nice fish 1 to 2 pounds every drift as many as you want on wrecks in 95 feet of water caught some nice kingfish 8-12 pounds while releasing a bunch of smaller ones…

The water has been a bit of an issue over the past weekend. In the keys our water has been beautiful, to beautiful the cobalt glowing blue gulf stream water has pushed up even onto the reef and this has made for some difficult days, We’ve caught fish but its been a struggle at times….

First we at J&A Charters hope all of you had a happy and safe Holiday and Happy New Year!! The last two weeks treated us very well, the weather was a little troublesome at times but over all went well. Both the “That’s Right “ and the “Pretty Work” have been steadily fishing. We have…