Fishing from Fire Island to the Florida Keys
ByI am VERY excited about our upcoming visit to the Florida Keys area for the very first time. We will be headquartered in Hawks Cay Resort. The resort looks simply beautiful, sitting right out on the water surrounded by some amazing looking beaches. We have heard some wonderful things about this place which is why we chose it out of the endless supply of destinations in the Keys.
View of Hawks Cay Resort
There are so many things I’ve wanted to try down there but on the top of the list is hand feeding the tarpon at Robbies Marina. There are tons of videos on YouTube showing folks feeding baitfish to the hundreds of tarpon that gather around Robbies dock and I have every intention of adding to that video count. I just can NOT wait to get there.
On the fishing front around the Fire Island area it was a quiet week for me with preparations for our vacation taking precedence but I did manage to get out a couple of times. I fished live eels on Friday night in search of some striped bass in the Fire Island Inlet in a DELUGE. The rain was biblical but the fish gods would only offer up some bluefish who were more than willing to chop the baits in half.
On Sunday evening I was back on the sand at Smith Point Park outer beach. Spent a few hours up to and just after sundown throwing various topwater and swimming plugs on some excellent looking structure but all was quiet on that evening as well.
Temperatures around Long Island have been running pretty warm of late and although there are some fish being caught I believe the water is still just a bit on the warm side to trigger a decent bite. Hopefully by the time we are back next week there will be some weather changes to get these fish on the move.
Keep an eye out here, on the YouTube channel and over on Maybe Tonight Charters Facebook page for updates and videos from the Florida Keys.
Tight Lines.........
Capt Paul Mandella
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