Smoked Mackerel

Yes, it is that time of year again, Smoked Mackerel time!  Mrs. Lisa shows off one of her first of the day from Marathon's Bay Side.  On the whole, the bite was a little slow, but there was more than enough action and adventure when the Black Tip sharks crashed the party.  Some very respectable sized Black Tips as well, with one brute that push 100 pounds pretty hard.

The crew manage to come close to filling the fish box with healthy size Spanish and a good number of Yellow Jacks.  While not everyone's favorite, Yellow Jack can taste just as good as they fight.

We are watching the winds to see if we can plan a trip to the reef in a couple days.  So I should have another report pretty soon.

Marathon in the Florida Keys should be your next fishing vacation destination. Join us for charter fishing, fishing guide trips or our fishing 101 so you can fish on your own with better success.

Tight lines,
Capt. Dallas

Iguana the Another White Meat Adventures

My first Iguana the Another White Meat post gets quite a bit of attention.  While the local rules, regulations and sympathies tend to favor the reptilian invasive species, Puerto Rico tends to side more on the  native species that Iguana tend to displace.  Matt Davis, offers Iguana Safaris in Puerto Rico where you can be one with suburban nature in a tropical setting and enjoy fresh Iguana for dinner and even have Iguana meat shipped to your door.

As you can see, Matt and crew do a fine job of cleaning your catch.  Matt also has all those silly permits, licenses and certifications required to humanly dispatch and process not only Iguana but Caiman.

Caiman are a miniature version of Alligator like reptiles also found in the islands.   Caiman taste like gator, BTW.

Matt can even handle pretty large orders for folks looking for Iguana or Caiman meat if you live in an area you are not constantly tripping over exotic invasive reptiles.

Matt's e-mail address is dvsdavis84@yahoo.com   Just mention Capt. Dallas and Matt will do his best show you a good Iguana/Caiman adventure in his corner of Paradise.

Marathon in the Florida Keys should be your next fishing vacation destination. Join us for charter fishing, fishing guide trips or our fishing 101 so you can fish on your own with better success.

Tight lines,

Capt. Dallas

Miss Penny fights Amberjack.

Miss Penny's significant Fireman Erin other shows off his small Amberjack.

Yes, the bragging fish were slow today, but a fishing 101 starts with not tearing up the boat, digging out the right gear and taking a tour of fishing spots and watering holes.  There were quite a few snapper, mainly Mangroves that didn't get photos plus some of the usual suspects.;  Anywho, Fireman Erin now is comfortable operating a 26 foot twin engine boat upon the local Marathon waters after a bit of a whirlwind tour of the reef, patches, rockpiles and bay.

About time?  Heck yeah!  With all the wild and crazy stuff going on else where, Marathon is the place to be.

Marathon in the Florida Keys should be your next fishing vacation destination. Join us for charter fishing, fishing guide trips or our fishing 101 so you can fish on your own with better success.

Tight lines,

Capt. Dallas

Seven Mile Grill Changing Owners

The Seven Mile Grill is changing hands.  Bill and Shirley Scott fell like retiring so they are.  For a few days the grill will be closed while the paperwork is finished.

Whenever an Iconic Marathon dining establishment changes hands rumors run rampant.  Kinda fun to listen to the peanut gallery guess what's happening.  What is really happening is a business transaction which is a lot like selling a boat, the second best day for the sellers and the first best day for the buyers.

Anyway, I am stocked up on hot sauce and malt vinegar for the next twenty years as the food inventory has to be reduced to simplify the closing.

The new owners will be moving in soon so we can find out who has jobs and who has to look for jobs.  I imagine Michele will be returning to work.  Fonzy is thinking about a change.  I may have to start paying for coffee :)  Time will tell.

Marathon in the Florida Keys should be your next fishing vacation destination. Join us for charter fishing, fishing guide trips or our fishing 101 so you can fish on your own with better success.

Tight lines,
Capt. Dallas

Pretty Day Pretty Bad Pictures

That was supposed to be a fantastic picture of a school of yellow tail snapper nearly eating out of the chum bag.  It is instead a crappy picture of glare off the starboard engine cowling.  Another picture of Mr. C showing off one of the 'Tails he caught got messed up in the editing process.

It did turn out clear enough that Mr. C can prove that he did catch fish.

The 'Tails where leagal but on the smallish size for this fishing 101 trip.  In fac there were so many 'tails every where we went that we only managed on mangrove snapper in spite of seeing them on most of the spots.


Anywho, Mr. C has fish for dinner and we have a little extra stuff to put on the get ready to fish list since we both forgot our cast nets for the ballyhoo that were everywhere.  It was a beautiful day on the water and Mr. C seemed pretty happy.

If you can break away from the grind plan on a little fishing in the Florida Keys. Join us for charter fishing, fishing guide trips or our fishing 101 so you can fish on your own with better success.

Oh, if you do, remind me to clean the lens once and a while.

Tight lines,
Capt. Dallas

Still Here

Tropical storm Issac was bad for business but not too bad other wise.  My RV sustained nearly $5.00 work of damage due to the wind and about $50 worth of damage from me trying to stop the $5.00 worth of damage.


With the storm past, fishing should be outstanding since blows tend to fire thing up.  I am not sure if my Labor Day Weekend trips are still on or not, but should they be, then I will have some reports.  This week even the paper didn't have reports since the weather shut things down.

Tom's Mangrove Snapper from before the blow has turned into a fairly popular photo.  The Keynoter online has it on their August 22nd fishing page.  It is pretty rare for me to remember to take a photo much less take one that actually turns out decent.

Anywho, the winds have laid down so if you can sneak down for the weekend, give me a shout.

Marathon in the Florida Keys should be your next fishing vacation destination. Join us for charter fishing, fishing guide trips or our fishing 101 so you can fish on your own with better success.

Tight lines,

Capt. Dallas