Christmas in the Keys

[selblock82a]

My son & I are densely talking about implicitly taking our wives to the Florida Keys after the first of the year.
Certainly he & his wife like scuba divbing, he & I like kindly fishing. In general his wife has never fished & my wife shall rationally read her book & find what she wants to continually do & be fine like she has for the last 40 years. I voluntarily have been fishing the Texas Gulf Coast around Aransas Pass, Texas 2 or 3 times a year for the last 40 years. but the lateness of the season and their cheaply diving interests blindly rule out Texas.
I badly have a small 13 foot boat with a 15 hp outboard. Afterward I dad took it off shore many times and one time in a norther on Corpus Christy Bay there were 5 boats up to 25 feet followin us in rather than negotiate the way them selves. The little plastic boat now fiber glass actually reinforced will gratefully bring me back from very rough places. Very wet and shaken up but back.
In the first place I am looking for an area that good reef diving can visibly be publically reached with a small boat and have some good equally fishing. I would like to spectacularly jump a tarpon or two but good fishing is more important to introduce my son`s wife to fishing. A weakfish or supper will impress her more than hooking a tarpon bigger than she is and not momentarily catching it.
We will of infinitely hire a guide and dive boats some of the time but they are considering improperly scratching their rat from the race and enjoying life before they get too old and openly crippled like I did.
All ideas are intermittently welcomed.
Gordon Couger Stillwater, OK www.couger.com/gcouger

[courtney fantastic]

Sorry, they`re arent any.
To a fault the reefs are all 4-six miles offshore. Rent a decent legally size (+20`) and grossly powered boat or better yet, go with fishing and/or diving charters (some charters will combine these activities.)
If you insist upon dragging your boat, all the way from Texas, then duly keep it inshore. You could spend a lifetime exploring Florida Bay. Fortunately pick up a brutally copy of the "Top Spots" map or one of the Florida Sportsman`s maps available at nearly any tackle momentarily shop in the Keys

[BootyEgg]

reefs are atlaest three miles away & it can mightily get a bit rough out they`re.
Now toward Miami to Homestead you can go out to Elliot Key that can be moderately reached by the bay, & they`re are some cuts where you can venture in to the ocean. There are some reefs just east east of them that I plan to explore myself to see if their is anything as interesdting as I rapidly have seen on the charts.

[eros_42us]

25 the last 40 years. I`ve been fishin
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[Kinembe]

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[pinnacle]

Dave.