Colton Fly Rod and Reel Holiday Sale

The Colton Holiday Sale is going on now through January 15th.  If you are looking for a new fly rod and reel combination for yourself or for the fly angling enthusiast on your Christmas list, Colton has you covered.  Rods and reels for both freshwater and saltwater fly fishing and ranging from 2 weight up to 17 weight.  Colton has a fly rod and reel for any fishing situation.

Click on the image below to go directly to the Colton website and check out the full line of fly rods and reels available.  Please tell Bob Captain Mike sent you.

Captain Mike Bartlett
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Key West Fishing Report

Christmas Redfish in Key West

Had a good day fishing for redfish with Andy and Charlie from Delaware. The guys caught four real nice redfish and we saw a couple of others. We had a few shots at barracudas and few follows while blind casting catching one small one. The barracuda fishing wasn't nearly as good as I thought it would be. Water is still very cold and it will take another couple days to get the water temperatures up to where they need to be. 

Merry Christmas

Giant Mutton Snappers Fishing Offshore Key West

Captain Peter Heydon, Captain Rob Kramarz, Captain Tony Skinner and I spent a couple days offshore fishing out of Key West last week on the Aeon 23 DLX.  With a well full of pilchards we were armed and ready for some serious tuna fishing offshore Key West.  We tried an area up to the east that Captain Paul D'Antoni told us about.  We spent some time and threw out some baits when we were marking fish but never had a tuna or bonita come up.  Later we moved down west to the sub and it was pretty much the same scenario.  Later in the afternoon though we did have some fish come to the surface, but we couldn't get them close enough to eat our baits.  On one of the drifts over the sub Capt. Pete and Capt. Tony had a double hook up.  We were all very excited at was finally supposed to happen.  Well it turned out that neither fish was a blackfin tuna but rather a nearly 20 pound mutton snapper pictured below and a bonita.  Not a bad consolation prize.

The next day Capt. Pete, Capt Rob and I went out again.  We got just enough pilchards to use for bottom baits.  We tried a rubble pile for tunas, but again nothing came up.  We did a few drifts fishing the bottom and Capt Pete and Capt Rob caught vermillion snappers and one keeper mutton snapper.

We moved into the reef for some yellowtailing, which turned out to be really slow, but again we got an awesome consolation prize of a few real nice mutton snappers that Pete and Rob caught.