What's Jiggy in Islamorada and Central Keys Right Now?

[Yellow Fever]

Heading To Duck Key in a couple of weeks with a crew from work. Will do some tarpon fishing, but want to run offshore. Anybody jigging blackfins??? What else is out there the end of June?

[Sea Draggin]

Gene from Pcola NAS is the only I know that has been recently. He put up a brief report on Florida Offshore. Sounds like plenty of fun to be had.

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Team RECESS just got in after spending 9 days in Key West. While there the weather was something to dream about, gently winds and smooth seas. Out to the west the first day for some jewfish and red groupers around the horn bouy,some fine jewfish were released and only a few red grouper for a fresh sea food dinner was bought back to shore. We released over 50 red grouper to fight another day. The second day was to the reef in 90 feet for some flag yellowtails. The yellowtails were there along with some muttons and we filled a box with them. Troll for some slammer dolphin the next day and was not disappoint there also. Our biggest was in the mid 30. Lots of sailfish in the area, but for some reason we could not stay hooked up to any for a release. Same with two blue marlins, just a quick release. The height of the trip was Tim's day time swordfish in 1600 feet.

We were in blue water at 7 miles. just alittle past the reef on the Atlantic side. Our longest run was to the south 55 miles out. We could see the clounds forming from Cuba. The reason we ran so far was to see what the stream was doing. But around 20 miles on average.The wahoo,sailfish and dolphin were holding in around 450 feet depth in the grass. Several free jumping marlin in the 1000 feet depth. The stream was very slow for this time of year to us. The muttons and yellowtail are as about as thick as I have ever seen them on the second roll down. Gene

[Fishin-N-Wishin]

Got back from Islamorada this past weekend and had a lot of success with the dophin with a 44" ~25-30lbs as the "winner" for the trip. Word is little tuna and we could vouch for that! No tuna this trip which is rare.