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• Key West Permit on Fly
  on May 9, 2013
  Paul from England with his first permit on fly.
• Awesome Week of Tarpon Fishing off Key West
  on Apr 18, 2013 in Skinny Water Culture Colton Fly Rods Key West fishing Flats Fishing Captain Mike Bartlett Jester Custom Backcountry Fishing Tarpon on Fly Fly Fishing Beavertailskiffs
  Tarpon fishing has been incredibly good this past week.  It started last weekend with a couple of flat calm mornings and continued through this morning.  I've been getting my clients out early and they have been jumping tarpon within minute...
• Marquesas Fishing Report
  on Apr 5, 2013
  It was a long time coming but we finally got a great stretch of weather that lasted about 5 days. We experienced light winds, clams seas and sunny skies, something I haven't seen in quite a while down here. It was so enjoyable and fishing was aw...
• Cold Key West Weather
  on Mar 26, 2013 in Key West weather Fishing Permit Fishing Tarpon Key West fishing Flats Fishing Captain Mike Bartlett Backcountry Fishing Fly Fishing Bonefish
  It's a cold and windy next few days in the Keys. Goodbye tarpon, it was fun while you were here. See you next week. Captain Mike BartlettKey West Flats & Backcountry...
• Key West Tarpon Video
  on Mar 26, 2013 in Tarpon Key West fishing Flats Fishing Captain Mike Bartlett Backcountry Fishing Night Tarpon Fishing
  Short video of the tarpon my wife caught a couple days ago.  Thing went crazy thrashing and jumping all around the boat.  Never went more than 50 feet from us.  Perfect fish to get a ton of photos.Captain Mike Bartletthttp://www.keywes...
• Tarpon Fishing Key West
  on Mar 25, 2013 in Fishing Tarpon Key West fishing Flats Fishing Captain Mike Bartlett Backcountry Fishing Night Tarpon Fishing Tarpon on Fly Fly Fishing Beavertailskiffs
  This March has to be one the worst ever for weather.  The first couple weeks of this month was riddled with strong cold fronts, wind, cold air and water.  It really felt like a normal January, which this year was beautiful compared to March...
• Key West Manatee
  on Mar 9, 2013 in Fishing Key West fishing Flats Fishing Captain Mike Bartlett Fly Fishing Beavertailskiffs Manatee Boating
  This is the first manatee I've seen this year at Garrison Bight Marina located in the middle of Key West. It was very interested in the props of my Lenco trim tab trolling motors and the back of the Yamaha. Maybe just looking for something to sc...
• Bonnethead Sharks on Fly
  on Mar 7, 2013 in Sharks Barracuda Sharkonfly Key West fishing Flats Fishing Captain Mike Bartlett Backcountry Fishing Bonnethead Shark Fly Fishing Beavertailskiffs
  It's been a cold, windy, rainy and all around crappy week with three cold fronts in the last seven days.  The nights have been very chilly but somehow the water has been relatively warm.  After another chilly night last night and a high of...
• Permit on Fly
  on Feb 27, 2013 in Captain Rob Kramarz Aeon Marine Fishing Permit Fishing Beavertail Strike Key West fishing Flats Fishing Captain Mike Bartlett Sunset Beavertail Fly Fishing Permit on Fly
  Fished with Captain Rob Kramarz of Chaos Theory Charters and his buddy Landon of Coastal Angler Magazine for some permit fishing on the flats of Key West last Saturday on the new Beavertail Strike.  The weather for once changed for the better in...
• Key West Fishing Report
  on Feb 10, 2013 in Jacks Colton Barracuda Bonefish on fly Tarpon Key West fishing Flats Fishing Captain Mike Bartlett Beavertail Backcountry Fishing Fly Fishing Permit on Fly
  It's been a good winter so far for fishing on the Key West flats and backcountry waters.  Most days the flats have been loaded with big barracudas and Crevalle jacks.  During the warm spells as we are in now permit fishing has been awesome...
• Key West Fishing Report
  on Dec 27, 2012 in Jacks Barracuda Key West fishing Flats Fishing Captain Mike Bartlett Beavertail Backcountry Fishing Fly Fishing
  Jacks and Barracudas all over the flats. A few permit as well.
• Christmas Redfish in Key West
  on Dec 24, 2012 in Key West Fishing Barracuda Flats Fishing Captain Mike Bartlett Beavertail Redfish Backcountry Fishing
  Had a good day fishing for redfish with Andy and Charlie from Delaware. The guys caught four real nice redfish and we saw a couple of others. We had a few shots at barracudas and few follows while blind casting catching one small one. The barracuda f...
• Giant Mutton Snappers Fishing Offshore Key West
  on Dec 21, 2012 in Captain Peter Heydon Captain Tony Skinner Captain Rob Kramarz Grouper Captain Mike Bartlett Key West fishing Tuna Reef Fishing Snapper Aeon Marine Fishing Wahoo Captain Paul D'Antoni Offshore
  Captain Peter Heydon, Captain Rob Kramarz, Captain Tony Skinner and I spent a couple days offshore fishing out of Key West last week on the Aeon 23 DLX.  With a well full of pilchards we were armed and ready for some serious tuna fishing offshor...
• Penguins in Key West?
  on Dec 21, 2012 in Aeon Marine Fishing Key West fishing Captain Mike Bartlett bird watching
  Not sure what type of bird this is, but it really looks like a small penguin. He was swimming right up to the boats cast netting pilchards.  Pretty cool.Okay, I just read about this mystery bird on the MyFWC Facebook page after posting the photo...
• Aeon 23 Offshore Key West
  on Dec 15, 2012 in Captain Peter Heydon Captain Rob Kramarz Aeon Marine Fishing Key West fishing Captain Mike Bartlett Snapper Offshore
  Took the Aeon 23 DLX offshore Key West for some yellowtailing with Captain Peter Heydon and Captain Rob Kramarz last Wednesday.  We anchored on the outside of the bar in about 90'.  Winds were from the south little over 10 mph, so a little...
• Beavertail Skiffs Demo Days in Matlacha, FL
  on Dec 7, 2012 in Aeon Marine Fishing Flats Fishing Captain Gregg McKee Beavertail Backcountry Fishing Matlacha Fly Fishing Stu Apte Boating
  Beavertail Skiffs continues their Florida Tour next weekend, Saturday December 15th on Matlacha in southwest Florida.  Please click on the link below for details.http://www.pineislandangler.com/2012/12/beavertail-skiffs-free-demo-weekend-on.html...
• Beavertail Skiffs Demo Days
  on Nov 26, 2012
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• Jacksonville Redfish on Fly
  on Nov 21, 2012 in Jacksonville Colton Captain Warren Hinnrichs Flats Fishing Captain Mike Bartlett Redfish Backcountry Fishing Fly Fishing
  Hooked up with my good buddy Captain Warren Hinnrichs out of Jacksonville, Fl this morning for some low  water redfish on fly.  I froze my ass off running to the first area, but once the boat came to a stop, it wasn't too bad.  Did a l...
• Meet Stu Apte and the New Beavertail Strike Skiff
  on Nov 18, 2012 in Captain Tony Murphy Hurricane Hole Marina Captain Gregg McKee Beavertail Stu Apte Aeon Marine Key West Fishing Skiff Salt Water Angler Fly Fishing Boating FishMonster Magazine
  Aeon Marine and Beavertail Skiffs with Stu Apte will be in Key West Saturday November 24th debuting the new 17' Beavertail Strike skiff.  We will be at Hurricane Hole Marina in the morning from 9am - 1:30pm then again at the Salt Water Angl...
• Colton Fly Rod and Reel Holiday Sale
  on Nov 17, 2012 in Fly Rod Colton Bonefish on fly Tarpon Key West fishing Captain Mike Bartlett Trout Fly Fishing Permit on Fly
  The Colton Holiday Sale is going on now through January 15th.  If you are looking for a new fly rod and reel combination for yourself or for the fly angling enthusiast on your Christmas list, Colton has you covered.  Rods and reels for both...

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