"Sailfish, Blackfins, Muttons & Yellowtails!" Updated January 27, 2002 Sailfish & Blackfins The Sailfish action off of Marathon and the middle Keys has been excellent lately with lots of fish being hooked up and caught in the Sombrero Reef area. The bite has been anywhere from 100-200 ft. of water but the 120ft range has been hot the past two days. Live baits have been doing the trick on getting the Sails to eat with Ballyhoo, Pilchards and Blue Runners being top baits. A nice surprise lately has been some good numbers of decent sized Blackfin Tuna hanging around the 150-250ft areas!! We had 6 nice Tuna ranging from 12-20lb one day last week and had several other nice Tuna on other trips. Nice catches of Dolphin and a few Wahoo have been coming in from offshore weedlines anywhere from 7 to 15 miles out. Be sure to run that one bait down deep to entice the Wahoo and don't forget the wire leader! Muttons & Yellowtails The reef fishing has been excellent lately with nice catches of Yellowtail Snapper hitting the docks all over the middle Keys. Also inhabiting the reef edge lately has been good numbers of King Mackerel with some topping the scales at 30lb.+. Some of the deep wrecks Oceanside have been producing some large Mutton Snappers up to 20lb and some nice sized Amberjack and African Pompano. On a recent rip we landed 5 nice Muttons up to 20lb and released seven Amberjack in the 30-40lb range. A few large Black Grouper have also been caught from the deep reef in 40-90ft. of water and some large Kings have been coming in from Hawk's channel near Bahia Honda Key. The weather looks to be holding for some great offshore fishing in the next couple weeks so get out there and enjoy it! For more info on fishing in the Marathon and middle Keys area, check out our website. Good luck in all of your fishing adventures! For more information on offshore and Tarpon fishing in Marathon and the middle Keys, check out our web site! Good luck in all of your fishing adventures! Capt. Bob Brown, Jr. e-mail - fish@sundancesportfishing.com www.sundancesportfishing.com Previous Marathon Reports: Report From 12/17/99 Report From 12/30/99 Report From 1/15/00 Report From 1/29/00 Report From 2/19/00 Report From 3/3/00 Report From 3/27/00 Report From 5/15/00 Report From 5/27/00 Report From 6/26/00 Report From 7/24/00 Report From 8/21/00 Report From 10/3/00 Report From 11/4/00 Report From 11/27/00 Report From 12/5/00 Report From 12/27/00 Report From 1/18/01 Report From 2/6/01  Report From 2/24/01 Report From 3/30/01 Report From 5/08/01  Report From 7/06/01  Report From 8/21/01 Report From 10/06/01  Report From 11/29/01    Current Report	Marathon Key West Backcountry Fishing Marathon's West Hump Check out a few of the most common catches here in the Florida Keys Most fish are available all year, but this chart shows you when fishing is best  Links to local tides and current predictors  Key Largo Islamorada Marathon Key West  Key Largo Islamorada Marathon Key West