Key West Flats Fishing with Capt. Mike O'Brien Fishing Reports

I guided Kia Decker win the Junior Angler division of the Cuda Bowl this year. It was our second win in the two years we have fished together . Last year his dad was on the boat with us throwing the Fly Rod.

Fishing was pretty good and we landed some nice barracuda and missed a lot more due to fish just coming unhooked.

What a great time with a fantastic young angler. This was our second year together and I hope to do it again in 2020.

Here is Dave Molone with a nice Keys Bonefish caught on the Fly with Capt. Mike O’Brien.

lower Keys Bonefish

Here’s one of the bones we caught on a very short trip. Hooked two more and had a very hard follow by a nice permit.

September and October are my favorite months to fish.  Bonefishing is good and the permit are a little more easy to feed.  Of course, the tarpon fishing is super fun and I have been getting into big tarpon crushing mullet in the Backcountry.  We can fish in the am and dive for lobster when it gets hot.

Here is Alan wading for a big school of permit in the Del Brown

Slick calm!

Mike Crowell got this nice poon in early June while fishing with me off the Mothership Eleven

I took these photos last week on a super rainy day.  My angler, Tom and I waited for a tiny window in the heavy rain and lighting to sneak back out and got a fish on the second cast then the fish jumped, and she was a big one. The rain picked back up to torrential and we fought it for almost and hour before leading it and getting the hell off the water with big smiles on our faces.  Corona time!!