Castle Deep Keys...

[Deep C]

As some of you know I do some stuff in the Keys. One of my better kept secrets is my spot there. My family owns THE eastern most condo in all of the Florida Keys and I thought I should share some of the magic of the place with you all.
Only 60 feet of lawn seperates us from the Atlantic. Theres a deep water channel running along my seawall perhaps 80 feet wide. In this channel it is teaming with snapper, grunt, pinfish, blue runners and some spanish macks by day. The odd Cubera or Grouper shows up there from time to time. By night the tarpon, horseye jacks, goggleeyes and sharks show up. One of my favorite passtimes is setting out a small fish for shark bait on a 30lb spin outfit. Bulls, lemons, nurses, and my favorite blacktips are regulars. In late spring we get the big tarpon eater great hammerheads and I have seen a couple tigers cruise through.
On the other side of the channel is a couple mangrove bushes and a bonefish flat. The ledge along the flat is also a great place for lobsters. On the flat itself we hunt bonefish and permit. Trunkfish, binnethead sharks, and cudas offer great sport in the shallows if the bones etc aren't cooperating.
Outside the flat the water slowly drops to about 20 feet where it stays that depth til the first reef at about three miles off. The reefs there are part of the Pennekamp system. The only living coral reef in the USA. Thats where we anchor and chum for live hoos.
A couple miles past there is the second reef and "the drop" which goes from 30-200 feet in short order. That area has some dandy sailfish, blackfin tuna, wahoo and mahi fishing to be had.
THE VIEW

BOWED UP OFF THE WALL...

NIGHT TIME BLACKTIP...

[jawz12]

a buddy of mine has a house in marathon-key colony beach...down the street(us 1) is capt hook's,behind it is a small water way canal-the marathon lady ties up there.the bull sharks come in there to feed in the afternoon.they feed on what the marathon lady throws over the side from cleaning fish.we set up on the bridge down from them last year,used cuda fillets for bait and a chum bag with mackeral chum,tied off on a small rod. what i'm gonna tell you,i have 2 other guys who will back this story up 100%....
tied was running the chum toward the marathon lady,dropped a cuda fillet in the water with a little weight ,hung by a rubber band on it,rod was a 7' graphite with a international 12-spooled with 20lb ande,leader was wire about 6' long.a few mins later....BOWED UP !!! i was running down the bulkhead , with the rod battling the bullzilla-it was intense !! 1/2 hour later popped the critter off-shit !!!
roll back to the bridge-break one rig one.... back in the hunt....hook up again-lost him,pretty sure he wrapped me around the pilings....rig up again...same drill....popped him off after about 15mins..next thing ...a bull shark wants the chum bag-my buddy was wrestelin' with a big boy on a small bait caster,with the chum bag as bait-the ******* ate the chum bag !!

it was the best nite i ever had fishin'-we were drinkin' cold heinekins battling sharks off a bridge- too much fun !!!

[Deep C]

I get some slob bulls off that dock. They almost always spool the 30 but a 50w will work if they dont get around the island on you. I've taken them to near 500 class but there is one resident big ******* that has eaten several tarpon, cuberas and even a blacktip that I had hooked...

[Logan9581]

My family owns THE eastern most condo in all of the Florida Keys

Must be in Key Largo?

[Deep C]

Te very northeast corner... Ocean Reef Club

[Logan9581]

I love Ocean Reef!! Lots of childhood memories from that place. We used to fish Mako (the boat, not shark) tournaments from there every summer.

[sea scape]

I get some slob bulls off that dock. They almost always spool the 30 but a 50w will work if they dont get around the island on you. I've taken them to near 500 class but there is one resident big ******* that has eaten several tarpon, cuberas and even a blacktip that I had hooked...

I hope no one ever decides to take a swim or falls in.. with all of the feeding you guys are doing.. water would probably boil up like a school of Piranhas were feeding

That is a surfers nightmare!

[Deep C]

I dive for lobsters right there by day and never have a problem. Late afternoon though they come callin...