Welcome to our Big Pine Key & Lower Florida Keys Fishing Home Page
Big Pine Key and the lower Florida Keys offer a wide variety of water sports. Diving, snorkeling, boating and fishing are very popular here. The lower keys have many well-protected shallow bays, flats and mangrove islands that offer excellent fishing for bonefish, tarpon, permit, barracuda, sharks and other species.
The Fish of Big Pine Key & Lower Florida Keys
Learn more about the different fish and how to catch them on our Fish of Big Pine Key & Lower Florida Keys page.
Big Pine Key & Lower Florida Keys Fishing Calendar
Take a look at our Big Pine Key & Lower Florida Keys Fishing Calendar to see the average temperatures by month and what species are throughout the different fishing seasons.
Big Pine Key & Lower Florida Keys Boat Launches
Take a look at our Big Pine Key & Lower Florida Keys Boat Launches page to find a place to get your boat on the water.
Big Pine Key & Lower Florida Keys Inshore Fishing
The Big Pine Key area and the Lower Florida Keys offer some outstanding bay, flats and backcountry fishing with minimal fishing pressure. The waters around Big Pine Key and Sugarloaf Key offer some very good flats fishing for a variety of different fish. In this area, anglers catch tarpon, bonefish, permit, sea trout, redfish, cobia, jack crevalle, bluefish, sharks, snapper, grouper and more.
Learn more on our Big Pine Key & Lower Florida Keys Inshore Fishing page.
Big Pine Key & Lower Florida Keys Nearshore Fishing
Big Pine Key & Lower Florida Keys Deep Sea / Offshore Fishing
Big Pine Key and the Lower Keys have some very good fishing available offshore for a variety of different fish. This area of the Florida Keys doesn’t have a ton of offshore fishing charters available, so it may be easier to plan an offshore fishing trip in one of the other areas. If you do get to do some fishing offshore in this area, you may catch mahi mahi, wahoo, a variety of tuna, sailfish, marlin and many other species of fish.
Learn more on our Big Pine Key & Lower Florida Keys Deep Sea Fishing page.
Big Pine Key & Lower Florida Keys Shore Fishing
If you are interested in doing some shore fishing in this area, your best bet is going to be to fish the bridges or the Bahia Honda State Park. Anglers can catch a variety of fish from shore and the bridges from snapper to sharks and just about everything in between depending on the time of year you are fishing.
Learn about the best spots to fish here from shore.
