Feed The Tarpon!

Best tourist attraction in the the Florida Keys!

                                    
 

Feed the tarpon at Robbie's Marina

A school of 50 to 100 tarpon come here daily and linger for hours. Occasionally, a tarpon  rises up from the water, to meet the fish as it leaves your hand. It's a sight to behold! Maybe the tarpon come here to see the humans, but toss a bait fish among them and the water churns as these monsters and the resident pelicans vie for the snack, causing quite a spectacle.

Also a good place to observe stupid human behavior..  His T shirt says "Bite Me".....

Ask About Fly Fishing

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Ask About Fly Fishing

Internet Radio has brought together the experts on fly fishing to tell you in their own words the secrets to their success in both freshwater and saltwater.


Covering fish from Trout to Tarpon, from tying flies to casting them you'll find it all right here!

Show Archive

Just click on the title of the interview and you'll be taken to a page where you'll find the controls to play the recordings and the link to download the MP3 file to you computer or MP3 player.
 
I listen to them on my I phone..  A great way to pass the time while tying flies, road trips, waxing the boat, etc..
 
My Favorites??   Naturally...
 
Capt. Bruce Chards                    
Persuading Permit            
Big Bonefish in the Florida Keys
 
Andy Mill                                  
A Passion for Tarpon
 
Tad Burke                                 
Tangling with Tarpon

Trapper Badovinac                   
 Fly Fishing Montana's Missouri River





Over 125 Shows for you to listen to..... that should just about get you through a long winter of fly tying..

Top 10 Reasons To Fish The Florida Keys

1.  The absolute best place in the world to sight fish big tarpon..
Mid April though mid June thousands of big, migratory tarpon  pass though the crystal clear water of the Lower Florida Keys..

2.  Big permit..  The biggest...

3. Yeah we have big bonefish too..  not as many as you will see in Belize, Bahamas or the Yucatan.. but they are big..

4.  Don't need a pass port.... travel Insurance, immunizations, etc..

5. No language barrier... you can understand what your guide is saying.....(even though you may not want to)

Hells Bay Skiff

6.  Keys guides have  all the latest gear, rods, flies, etc..  This is huge!!   This means you do not have to lay out over a $1,000 for a rod and reel that you may only use a hand full of days a year..  Plus it give you a chance to try out the stuff we like..When you go to another country you have to provide rods, leader, tippet, line cleaner, etc. and hope you have bought/tied the right flies..  Here all you have to do is step in the boat..




Looe Key Tiki Bar

 

7. If we do get bad weather and fishing is not possible.. we refund your deposit and you can spend it foolishly in Key West on wine, women and song....  or Rum runners and Grouper sandwich..

Counch Rebublic Sea Food Company

8. Excellent restaurants and fun bars.. Key West has lots of both!   Fished in a lodge in the Yucatan years ago..  My friend was served a jack crevalle for dinner..  Last year on a do it your self, JU JU travel tip to Andros.... My buddy Tom ordered the fish  in a locals spot in Fresh Creek...  They served him a baby tarpon...  I had the cracked conch..  LOL..actually every night after that too..

Florida Keys App

9. Your I phone works every where, even on the flats.. ( Not necessarily a good thing) 

Key West International Airport

10. Key West Airport.  When you fly into Key West , there are no 18 year old kids with pimples and automatic weapons , dressed in camo in the airport..  (might be some TSA people with a funny gleam in their eyes)
Also you don't have to listen to the annoying LOUD Calypso band while standing in line for 45 minutes at Nassau customs....

Bahia Honda Webcam

Need a couple minute vacation from work???

When the boss isn't looking check out the under water cam in Bahia Honda Channel...
You never know what you can see...

  Bahia Honda Web cam:  Goliath Grouper Research Project

Bahia Honda Camera: This cam is positioned in twenty feet of water on a concrete piling of a bridge in the Florida Keys. It is COMPLETELY powered by wind and sun. Click here to find out more. It was installed by the teens4oceans crew in December or 2008

Golith Grouper and Tarpon

The Bahia Honda Channel is home to permit, sharks, rays, goliath groupers,barracuda, jacks, snook and snapper year-round. In the spring, pods of hundreds of large migrating tarpon take up residence, moving in and out of the bridge pylons.

 

Snook

Snappers And Tarpon

 

 

 

The best time for viewing is often at slack tides.

Bahia Honda Channel Tide Predictions

 

Photos from Teens for Oceans



If you are not here this week end you should be....

We had a minor cold front earlier this week. Before the temperatures dropped in to the low 60's, we found several nice schools of bonefish on the warmer flats near deeper water..  Looks like the weather is improving for this week end.  Highs in the 70's..   More Key West festivities this week end too.. 

I plan on being in Key West this week end,  how ever I will be on my skiff looking for permit and barracudas..

Although the Wine and Seafood Festival sounds like a lot of fun!!

Key West Food and Wine Fest to Star Sunshine, Savory Flavors and Spirited Fun

Food and wine enthusiasts can savor sunshine, standout dishes and stellar vintages during the second annual Key West Food and Wine Festival, happening now through Sunday, Jan. 30.

 
                                             
The festival of flavors also features a wacky afternoon of coconut bowling and sampling coconut treats at Blue Heaven Restaurant in historic Bahama Village, a traditional Key West shrimp boil at the funky Hogfish Bar & Grill beside the shrimp docks and a "bubbles and madness" champagne brunch at Azur Restaurant.