If you don’t want to cook, no worries, as I can recommend the best places in town to take your catch to be prepared the Florida Keys way. (Oh yes very tasty!) At the end of the day, I will filet all your catch so all you have to do is eat them. Anyone with a little instruction can have a great day fishing for these very tasty fish. On the fishing charter, you’ll be using light tackle to fight these fast hard fighting fish. Yellowtail snapper is the staple snapper fishing in the Florida Keys. For a real traditional treat, try it whole-fried! The fish is known for its flaky white meat, so it’s well worth keeping your catch, which can be easily prepared at many of the local restaurants in Marathon, FL as a ‘hook n’ cook’. Yellowtail fishing is very fun, as the fish can put up a strong fight. Yellowtail tend to be easily spooked and the appearance of sharks and dolphins can scare entire schools off until the threat moves out of the area. Most fish caught range anywhere from 12 to 18 inches but it’s not unheard of to catch snapper over 18 inches. Light tackle outfits are what we use to catch yellowtail snapper. The Chum is ground-up menhaden fish frozen to 7-pound blocks which we put in mesh bags to slowly melt and put out small pieces of bait in the water to attract the fish. Using a lot of chum, light leader, and small hooks is the way we catch yellowtail here in the Keys. We target yellowtail anywhere from the shallow patch reefs all the way out to 120 feet of water around reefs and Wrecks. Yellowtail spawn in groups off the edges of reefs in the Spring all the way through to the Fall but mostly during the Summer. They feed on crabs, shrimp, worms, and smaller fish. It is a staple of the Marathon fishing charters I run on the reef. Yellowtail snapper is a very common species of snapper found here in the Florida Keys.
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