Bay Keys Fishing Reports (February 2026)

Justin Ferrell with Good Times Key West
Key West, Florida
Reported: 3 days ago

The water temp has been coldest I've seen in a while. The inshore fishery was almost nonexistent for a couple days. Luckily as soon as the cold weather turned, the mangrove and lane snappers slowly started coming back. On the days with decent conditions and adventurous guests, we ventured to...

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Justin Ferrell with Good Times Key West Key West, Florida Reported: 3 days ago

The water temp has been coldest I've seen in a while. The inshore fishery was almost nonexistent for a couple days. Luckily as soon as the cold weather turned, the mangrove and lane snappers slowly started coming back.

On the days with decent conditions and adventurous guests, we ventured to a bit deeper water looking for a little warmer water temperatures. We found some nice red grouper (season closed till May) and a variety of quality snappers.

Beyond the reef had been decent. Not exactly all the designer fish, but plenty of action to be had. Decent numbers of cero, Spanish, and king mackerels, some cudas, and bonita have been caught as well. I heard of a handful of sailfish being caught as well.

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Paulie Marchan
Key West, Florida
Reported: 1 week ago

These little muttons came yesterday in the calm before the storm. Rolled around today and is blowing out of the N at 25.

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Paulie Marchan Key West, Florida Reported: 1 week ago

These little muttons came yesterday in the calm before the storm. Rolled around today and is blowing out of the N at 25.

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Hunter Ledbetter
Key West, Florida
Reported: 2 weeks ago

Hey guys, been fighting some tough weather conditions. once we get through this cold spell, we'll get back in the water. We've been getting good lobsters and Lionfish. The cobia are here on the wrecks now and the patch reef fishing is staying solid.

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Hunter Ledbetter Key West, Florida Reported: 2 weeks ago

Hey guys, been fighting some tough weather conditions. once we get through this cold spell, we'll get back in the water. We've been getting good lobsters and Lionfish. The cobia are here on the wrecks now and the patch reef fishing is staying solid.

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Alex Harmon
Summerland Key, Florida
Reported: 4 weeks ago

Great weather brought in some great fish, big muttons, sails and tunas offshore as well as cobias, jacks and grey snappers inshore!

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Alex Harmon Summerland Key, Florida Reported: 4 weeks ago

Great weather brought in some great fish, big muttons, sails and tunas offshore as well as cobias, jacks and grey snappers inshore!

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Sean Okeefe
Key West, Florida
Reported: 4 weeks ago

This time of year with the colder weather we have been targeting Speckled sea trout and pompano in the basin's. My last few trip we had a great bite with the trout including the photo of a 21" trout. A few pompano have been caught as well. Hopefully that bite...

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Sean Okeefe Key West, Florida Reported: 4 weeks ago

This time of year with the colder weather we have been targeting Speckled sea trout and pompano in the basin's. My last few trip we had a great bite with the trout including the photo of a 21" trout. A few pompano have been caught as well. Hopefully that bite will improve after this most recent cold front, also catching some big barracuda up on the flats which is typical for cooler winter days.

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Paulie Marchan
Key West, Florida
Reported: 4 weeks ago

Tunas showed back up when the blue water came back in. There have been some kings around and a sailfish here and there. Had some beautiful dolphin and grouper at the end of last month.

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Paulie Marchan Key West, Florida Reported: 4 weeks ago

Tunas showed back up when the blue water came back in. There have been some kings around and a sailfish here and there. Had some beautiful dolphin and grouper at the end of last month.

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Hunter Ledbetter
Key West, Florida
Reported: 1 month ago

Big news is our wahoo are here!! Lots of of very good patch reef fishing, with Muttons and Lane snapper filling coolers. Our temperatures have remained mild even into January and we were having comfortable dive troops getting lots of lobsters and lionfish. We can even split your half day...

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Hunter Ledbetter Key West, Florida Reported: 1 month ago

Big news is our wahoo are here!! Lots of of very good patch reef fishing, with Muttons and Lane snapper filling coolers. Our temperatures have remained mild even into January and we were having comfortable dive troops getting lots of lobsters and lionfish. We can even split your half day lobster trip when our lobster in one hour patch reef fishing to get your lobsters and lane snappers.

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Ryan Carter
Key West, Florida
Reported: 1 month ago

Yellow Jack fishing has been very consistent over the past few weeks. Live bait such as pinfish or pilchards has been producing best, but anglers are also catching them on bucktail jigs and topwater lures. These hard-fighting jacks put up a great battle and are excellent table fare. The inshore...

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Ryan Carter Key West, Florida Reported: 1 month ago

Yellow Jack fishing has been very consistent over the past few weeks. Live bait such as pinfish or pilchards has been producing best, but anglers are also catching them on bucktail jigs and topwater lures. These hard-fighting jacks put up a great battle and are excellent table fare.
The inshore snapper bite is red hot right now. Using live or cut bait, anglers are catching plenty of legal snapper in the shallow waters.
A few cobia have started to show up, but the large numbers we’ve seen in recent years haven’t arrived just yet.

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