Key West Fishing Report (Updated June 2022)
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Key West Fishing Gets Hot in December
5 Featured Trips
December marks the beginning of a new season of Key West fishing. The blustery weather of November ends and things begin to stabilize with the new cooler air and water temps pushing huge schools of baitfish inshore. That’s where predators like Snapper and Grouper hunt on the wrecks and reefs, Tarpon and other gamefish feast […]
Key West Deep Sea Fishing – Big Fish, Big Fun
4 Featured Trips
January is a month of anticipation in America’s Caribbean paradise. Town gradually quiets a little after the booming holiday season and a new year of Key West fishing heaves into sight off the bow. It’s the depths of winter here in the Lower Keys. The distinct shifts between cool frontal weather and days that can […]
Break the Ice with Key West January Fishing
3 Featured Trips
While everyone on the mainland freezes in January, Key West anglers are breaking a serious sweat with the hot fishing that goes off in the Backcountry, the Gulf, and the Atlantic. Actually, the first weeks of January down here do often bring on a big cold front and we get the heavy winds out of […]
Cool Weather Turns on the Key West Offshore Fishing
2 Featured Trips
The “cold” Key West winter weather finally rolls in during January, with temperatures often getting right down into the 70’s and even the high 60’s at times during this deep winter month. Honestly, even though Key West is a far nicer place to be than anywhere else this time of year, for early morning trips […]
What Blizzard? Key West Fishing Charters Bring In Nothing but Blue Skies and Big Fish
3 Featured Trips
When the January nor’easters roll in on our neighbors up in New York and Massachusetts, and polar vortexes put the Midwest in a deep freeze, it’s only natural that the Keys should cool off a bit. Maybe it’s in sympathy for those who spend their days shoveling snow in biting winds instead of throwing bait […]
Key West Fishing – Starting the New Year Off Right
3 Featured Trips
The Key West shallow water Flats fishing has turned on in a big way since the Christmas holidays. Between this and the steady deep sea action we have seen the past few weeks, it has really been a Happy New Year for Key West fishing.
Windy Weather Blows in Good Key West Action Fishing
3 Featured Trips
February in Key West most often continues the typical winter weather cool/warm alteration pattern. Arriving cold fronts come in on strong north-northeast winds and cool things down, sometimes even into the 50s at night. The frontal waves are followed by warming periods that allow the water temps to climb a bit but usually also bring […]
February Warm Spells Bring a Key West Tarpon Preview
4 Featured Trips
Conditions are looking good for an action-packed Key West Tarpon run this year. The extremes of weather that are hitting the northern states are translating to well-defined cool fronts sweeping into the Keys. These Florida-style polar vortexes that drive air temperatures all the way down to the low 70s are followed by days of exceptionally […]
Key West Sport Fishing in February: Showing the Love
3 Featured Trips
February brings a big freeze-up in most places, but down here in the Florida Keys sportfishing often gets on a hot streak in January and February. The reef, the wrecks, and the Backcountry can really turn on this time of year. The offshore deep sea fishing takes some patience and looking around, but with the […]
Come in From the Cold with Key West Fishing Charters
4 Featured Trips
When polar vortex blasts are plunging temperatures into double digits below zero across the Midwest and Northeast, the Keys usually also hit their lows for the winter. Average February low temps are 66 degrees down here in Key West, but daytime highs most often hover in the mid-70s. If that sounds pretty good about now, […]
Hot and Cold Spring Fishing in Key West
3 Featured Trips
March can get cool in the Keys, with temperatures in the low 60s not unheard of, particularly during the early part of the month. Typical March weather brings a series of cold fronts rolling through the Lower Keys. Cool air alternates with unseasonably warm weather to keep the fishing a bit unsettled. If you like […]
Key West Tarpon Fishing Signals Springtime in the Keys
3 Featured Trips
Down here in the Lower Keys, the first hints of spring often crop up as a few warm days in February. When we get some temperatures pushing into the low 80s, and the Backcountry water warms into the 70s, it is only natural for experienced Keys anglers to start keeping an eye open for that […]
Key West Spring Tarpon Season is Here
3 Featured Trips
As warm spring weather takes hold in the Keys, attention begins to shift towards the event that many consider to be the high point on the Key West fishing calendar – The Tarpon migration. Besides being huge and very impressive-looking, the Tarpon belongs to a genus of fish with a fossil record going back to […]
Spring Sport Fishing Fever Hits Key West
3 Featured Trips
As March ends in Key West, the cold fronts get fewer and milder. We look forward to April, with the warming weather and dropping winds that usher in excellent days of spring fishing both offshore and on the reefs. The bite is good in general this time of year, but the sporty waters common to […]
The Tarpon Hit Town & Key West Flats Fishing Kicks Off
4 Featured Trips
Between the start of the Key West Tarpon migration, the first weeks of Key West Flats fishing, and the first waves of spring breakers, town gets real busy this time of year. And the action in town is matched out on the water with the deep sea, Flats, Backcountry, and shallow Gulf wrecks all producing […]