Key West fishing spots..

RUSTYNTABATHA · #1 06-24-2016, 01:05 PM

Anyone have some Key West fishing holes for mutton / yellow tail reef fish.... never reef fished in the keys... so any help is greatly appreciated... we will be pulling baits also... and heard July is the month for a shot at a blue marlin so I am taking some med sized gear also !!!

bibijawa · #2 06-24-2016, 10:53 PM

Eyeglass reef is a well known mutton spot in key west. It's easy to spot by all the boats anchored on it around the full moons.

bumpdraft · #3 06-27-2016, 05:36 PM

I usually like to stay away from the other boats a bit. There is a lot of reef south of Key West to fish. We used to stay a few days at Marquesas and got there by heading towards the NW channel, then through the lakes area to Boca Grande. There are channel markers out there nowdays (lot of flats). Most of the time, we went in the cooler months and fished in 10 to 20 feet of water and caught some big muttons.
The area near Cosgrove should be good. One time I headed south from there after bottom fishing and trolled back to Key West, catching a couple of decent Dolphin.
There is a lot to see out there and if you do decide to go out that way, watch out for the coral heads near the south of Marquesas. Ron.

RUSTYNTABATHA · #4 07-16-2016, 07:14 PM

the short of it was... high seas ... caught dinner for 1 night... 2 pnuts and 2 mangrove ... but had a great time ... we passed the guy with the old 21 race boat with the chines painted black coming back on us 1.... I think around the last stretch between key largo and florida city.... say numerous SC's there... 2 of which sit across from each other on the channel coming out of Garrison bight were we were staying ...