Best Key West Florida (FL) Flats Fishing Charters

The Florida Keys are the birthplace of flats fishing and are renowned for some of the best backcountry fishing in the world. Bonefish, Tarpon, Permit, Mutton Snapper, Barracuda fishing and Sharks of mammoth proportions prowl the emerald green waters of Key West. Home to the fabled Marquesas fishing, the Marquesas Keys are the only true atoll in the entire Western Hemisphere. People come from all over to experience South Florida flats fishing.

Saltwater flats fishing is legendary here. Key West FL was the home of more than 200 Spanish solders for two years while they salvaged the wreck of the Margarita and searched for the sunken and lost Atocha treasure ship. Today we are still fishing the shallow water for silver. Silver tails and silver sides, with telling shadows that belie the location of the silver king, Megalops Atlanticus, the mighty "Tarpon".

If you have never seen the form of a school of 100# Tarpon silently gliding over a white sandy shoal backwater fishing, then you are missing one of the most memorable sites that God ever created. The first time that this happens while you are flats fishing Florida Keys, I recommend you hold off on that first cast and savor the vivid colors, the smell of the salt water and life. The moment will last forever. Another school will come by soon and you can make that first weak-kneed cast. While you are there, keep a keen eye out for the faintest of shadows. Usually you will not see the details of the body of the Permit, until after the fish spooks.

Shallow Water, Backcountry, Backwater, Flats Fishing Guides and More

The Keys FL offers the best all around flats fishing in the world, as the record books will attest to. Though Bonefish on the average are larger and more numerous in the upper keys, to a fly fishing guide, they are still plentiful in the back country of Key West.

With the abundance of these fish in the lower keys, the best chance for a grand slam (a Bonefish, Permit, and Tarpon in the same day) is right here in Key West with a Delph flats fishing guide. The Mutton Snapper might well be the least known of the flats dwellers. If you think the Permit is hard to see and spooks easily, then try your skills against the Mutton. If you are lucky enough to get one on your flats fishing charter, then you may be on your way to the "Super Grand Slam". We will save the sharks for the "Shark Fishing" page.

Delph Fishing Charters is a Fishing Charter company. Our main offerings include: Wreck Fishing and Bluewater Fishing charters for your deep sea and shallow water fishing trips.

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