If you are visiting the Keys and love to fish, but do not have cash flow to hire a guide for multiple days. (Like me, at $400 – $800 a day for guided fishing there is no way I could afford to fish anywhere nears as much as I need to satisfy me)
Of course if your heart is set on catching Sailfish, bonefish, permit etc frankly if your heart is set on catching any fish I would suggest you hire a guide. The waters of the Keys are big and it can take some serious know-how in order to catch some of the more sought-after fish.
But anyway’s, if you arent scared to take a boat out in strange waters, bait your own fishhooks, land your own fish, and risk spending the day cursing, then something you might want to try is shark fishing,
Sharks are all over the place in the Keys: big ones, little ones from sluggish nurse sharks to aggressive bull sharks they are all over the place.
They are dumb and aggressive eaters, and the bigger ones arent even scared of boats. They dont spook and they arent line shy. Basically they are the ideal fish to try to catch if you are new to saltwater fishing or the Keys.
Now you can try all this stuff from a...