Tavernier, Islamorada, and Key Largo Fishing charters

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Florida Keys Backcountry Fishing Slam – Snook-Redfish-Trout

Florida Keys Snook - The local backcountry offers some excellent Snook fishing. The average size is 1 to 5 pounds and 20-26 inches. You will find them around bridges, mangroves, pilings just about any structure. They eat Mullet, Shrimp, Pilchards, Pinfish and a multitude of artificial lures or combinations of live and dead bait. 

Florida Keys Redfish - Redfish love the warm waters of the Florida Keys, the mangroves and grassy flats are their regular haunts. They are prolific, and definitely not timid when it comes to eating - Which makes them a great sport fish for light tackle and fly-fishing. Redfish are often seen "tailing" on the shallow flats as they feed.

Florida Keys Seatrout - Seatrout are frequently targeted from December to April in the Florida Keys. When fishing for them you can use the old standby a popping cork rig with a shrimp or artificial hanging below the cork. Remember Pop the cork Sea Trout come to the gurgling sound the cork makes. Sea Trout are found over grassy bottom and in the "muds" that is muddy areas where the bait is routing in the bottom stirring up shrimp and small fishes.

Flats Fishing Slam – Bonefish-Tarpon-Permit

Florida Keys Tarpon ("Silver King") - These incredible fish offer the ultimate in a shallow water big game fish. During the spring migrations, fish can average from 80 to over 150 pounds. They can be found rolling and feeding in deep backcountry finger channels, in shallow grassy basins or along the edges of bars and flats in 4 to 6 feet of water. Tarpon tend to prefer water temps in the mid 70's for the channels and usually need 78-79 degrees for the flats. The big fish are here in good to excellent numbers from March through June and small tarpon 8-20 pounds are here year-round, disappearing during cold fronts in winter.

Permit - The permit is a very strong and hard fighting fish, averaging 8 to 16 pounds. Fish in the 20 to 35 pound range are common with fish to near 30 pounds showing fairly often. They seem to tolerate slightly cooler and slightly warmer conditions than the bones, and are also here all year with April and May probably being most productive. Permit are found in waters less than 3 to 4 feet deep and on wrecks in deeper water during spawn. Book your fishing charter, fishing guide with Reel Mell-O Charters in Key Largo ,Islamorada andTavernier.