December Fishing in Key West onboard The ShadowCaster
Our cold fronts are starting to move through with more consistency and that has been producing some great catches. Live Bait will remain the key to a successful day and it has been plentiful. As we move into December the channels and shallow rock piles will remain active with species like— Jacks, Snappers, Big Sharks, […]
November Fishing in Key West
November Fishing in Key West has started off Strong!!! We love when the pelicans start to show up and dive on the bait schools—resulting in live wells full to the brim with Pilchards. Every fish in the ocean will eat a pilchard. We can take these guys to rock piles, channels, and shallow watewr wrecks […]
Sunset Tarpon Fishing
Want to Beat The Heat, Catch a gorgeous Key West Sunset AND fish for Tarpon during their prime feeding times???? Then this trip is for you. This season we are offering our Sunset Tarpon trip, and it has been a huge hit. We have been hooking, jumping and catching numerous fish on these trips. The […]
Spring Fishing 2025
Spring is our hands down favorite time to Fish in Key West. The Tarpon migration begins and the weather starts to warm up. April fishing in Key West kicks off our Tarpon season and the fish are showing up in the usual places. Fresh bait is the key and we are always on top of […]
Spring Tarpon Fishing is Heating up
We are fast approaching the time of year we all wait for: Tarpon Season. Tarpon, in my opinion, are the most sought after fish the shallow waters of The Florida Keys and Key West has to offer. April fishing in Key West really kicks off Tarpon Season and fish are starting to show up already. […]
Late February Fishing Key West
February Fishing in Key West has been great. We are seeing an abundance of Cobia this winter season. Cobia are a species that we will catch during the cooler months, but this year just seems to be over the top!!! Also, Tarpon are making thier way to Key West a little earlier than normal, with […]
First Cold Front Predictions
As I write this, we are experiencing our first significant Cold Front. This will Shake things up a bit for us. We should start to see the bait really move inshore and we will start to Target all our Winter Season Species. We are talking about Barracudas (the once underrated fish has become a shallow […]
Tarpon Season in Full Swing
Tarpon Season is in Full Swing here in the Florida Keys. The weather has been on the windy side, but that is normal for April. As we move into May and June the winds tend to lay down and these Tarpon really settle in for their stay in the Key West waters. So, if you’ve […]
Start of Tarpon Season?????
Over the last 10 days we have been seeing more and more Tarpon showing up in the usual places. We’ve had a couple crummy weather days where we didn’t see any, but when the conditions are right we have been having success with them. It’s still a little early, but it has been reassuring to […]
Happy New Year 2024
Happy New Year—-This Holidays are past us and its a New Start to 2024. Things have kicked off great for us here at ShadowCaster Charters. The weather has been the typical winter pattern, with cold fronts moving through almost weekly. The cooler water temps have brought alot of the inshore species to some of the […]