We were lucky enough to get down to the Florida Keys this year and stay at the Hawks Cay resort and marina. "Into the Blue" and "Saltwater Experience", two of my favorite fishing shows are regularly filmed there. We figured our quickly why this was an angler's destination. In four days, we took out a flats charter on the "Soc-eh tu-em" with Captain Billy, fished a bridge and caught 40 fish and rented a center console and took it out to a reef where we got into another 50 fish. I estimated that we caught almost 20 species of fish, which all fought HARD and were beautiful. We even got to stop in the famous World Wide Sportsman full of great saltwater fishing gear and nothing else! On the last day we even saw both captains from the two fishing shows and Captain Rich Tutor was filming. I'm excited to see the episode and get down to the Keys again.
It took a while to get this up but these are pictures from our first attempt at the spring trophy rockfish season in the Spring of 2012. We bought some new gear and got out on the water 3-4 times. Unfortunately, we didn't come home with the big one but we did catch some fat 25-26 inchers and a couple of Cownose rays that fouled up our lines. Hopefully we'll come home with a big boy next spring...can't wait.
