Florida Keys Family Bay Boat fishing is on fire! April 21, 2012

We could find a mermaid for our bow spirit so our dog did the job!

The Florida Keys has many nick names and most deal with water borne activities. An easy fit is to refer in one form or another is to refer to the Keys as a fisherman’s paradise! This island chain is surrounded by the best of the best the fishing has to offer. Bamboo Charters long ago realized this and went outside the “box” and began offering Bay Boat fishing. The reason was simple. Bay Boats are by far the most comfortable boats to fish from in terms of the nearshore/inshore/flats & backcountry game. Bay Boats can comfortably seat 4 adults along with a captain and the ample deck space offers plenty room for uncrowded fishing. Bay Boats can handle the choppy conditions found in area waters when the typical Florida Keys guide skiff that is 16 – 19 feet long and built for 2 feet of water and 3 people at the most would have to stay at the dock. Bay Boats can fish the same water that these tippy, uncomfortable, crowded, wet boats fish in and here is the kicker! Bay Boats run faster, smoother and drier than any Florida Keys guide skiff ever built and in use today! Combine all these facts of roominess, comfortable, safer, drier and faster ride along with the fact that a Bay boat gives you the flexibility to fish from 12 inches of water on a backcountry flat on out to the deep blue sea all on the same day and the same trip! Capt. Tony Melton and Capt. Matt Bellinger recently took anglers into the backcountry waters of the Everglades National Park for snook, redfish and sea trout until noon when they decided to run back to the Keys and on out to 400 feet of water in the Atlantic Ocean. One moment they were catching fish in less than two feet of water and one hour later they were trolling lures for wahoo, blackfin tuna and dolphin. Bay Boats are family friendly and and the perfect boat to choose for fun family outings here in the Florida Keys.
For Family Fishing you can beat a Bay Boat. Florida Keys Guide Skiffs do not have the room or comfort afforded by a Bay Boat. A family with 1 to 4 children will find a Bay Boat the perfect choice for a great fishing charter here in the Florida Keys. We offer three 24 foot long Bay Boats here in Islamorada and Bamboo Charters has been offering Bay Boat trips longer than any charter operator in the Florida Keys. We offer 2 – 4 – 6 – 8 hour family fishing charters daily. Call Ana at 305-394-0000 today to book your family adventure today.

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March is looking good for Spring Break fun! March 4 2012

March is here and so is the warm weather! We have had a very warm Winter and with Spring just around the corner it already is acting like Summer here in the Florida Keys.
Snook and redfish have been showing up in their usual places in the backcountry and the tarpon migration into our waters has begun. Tarpon have been rolling in the western waters of the Everglades and Capt. Tony of Bamboo Charters has been hooking a few of these beasts on his trips into the Park. If he isn’t hooking into tarpon Tony has been putting his clients on some nice sized Bull and Lemon sharks.
Spring is always a great time of the year to catch huge numbers of Sea Trout out back as well, family fishing trips for trout is a crowd pleaser and this time of the year the trout average 17 – 22 inches and are good fun on light tackle gear..

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Patch reef Fishing at it best ! Feb 8 2012

Patch reef fishing can be fantastic at times here in the Florida Keys and right now we are in the best of times!  Patch reefs are rock piles, small ledges and coral structures that are small in size, by small Imean from the size of a sofa to the size of a hockey rink.  They can be in 10 feet of water, on out to several hundred feet of water depth.  Reef structure holds life, life attracts bait, bait attracts fish and fish is what we are after!

Winter fishing here on the patches is hot right now, its on FIRE!  Grouper, snapper, mackerel, porgies and more await you.  Chumming with boxed chum and a mix of live baits and fresh cut bait will get the fish life on the reef going and in the mood to eat.  Live pinfish, ballyhoo, pilchards and shrimp will all do fine as bait.  Tackle is simple, 10-15 pound spin tackle spooled up with Sufix 832 braid and 20 pound flourocarbon leader is all you need.  Keep a 20 pound outfit at the ready for the occassional cobia the will swim up to the boat.  Be ready to throw them a pin fish or jumbo shrimp.  I like to keep a 1/2 ounce Hook Up Lure white bucktail on a rig as well.  Hook Up Lures still make their bucktails by hand right here in Florida and they are available from 1/8 th to 3 ounces and they work!

This is type of fishing is wild wild West fishing, at times you will feel like General Custard at Little Big Horn!  fish will stack from top to bottom of the water colum behind the boat. Bamboo charters offers reef trips as well as many other forms of fishing through out the Florida Keys call us at 305-394-0000 and let Ana book your trip today.

Chris and Jim with a cobia

Reef fishing reaps rewards.

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