by Capt. Dexter Simmons | Apr 30, 2020 | Fishing Stories
It is late May in Key West. Royal Poinciana blossoms siren the spawning season for Tarpon, aka “silver king”, in Florida Keys waters. Tarpon season is here and schools of megalops atlanticus are now migrating across shallow near shore waters luring anxious anglers...
by Capt. Dexter Simmons | Apr 30, 2020 | Fishing Stories
ANGLER BEWARE: THESE BONEFISH WILL TEAR YOUR TIPPET APART. The fun began a little earlier than expected. We pulled off the overseas highway and slowly approached the Sugarloaf Key ramp. Suddenly the jeep went into convulsions and coughed us to a dead stop. The little...
by Capt. Dexter Simmons | Apr 30, 2020 | Fishing Stories
Blue Heaven rendezvous at 6:30 a.m. This slice of Key West’s Bahama Village is waking to roosters, disturbed only by our chowing down fresh conch and eggs. Jimmy’s music ebbs and flows from the kitchen, “…where the green of the Gulf meets the...