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00:00On this week's World of Saltwater Fishing, I have DeMarc Six off of Key West in the fabulous Florida Keys,
00:05but we have a very small weather window.
00:07Find out what it's going to take to adapt and catch fish in a short period of time.
00:12Stay tuned.
00:13Here we were at the Perry Marina,
00:43in Key West with about a four, maybe five hour weather window to go out and catch some fish.
00:52Afterwards, the wind was predicted to go up to around 30 knots and it wasn't going to look good for about three or four more days.
00:59So what to do to catch fish?
01:02Joining me, Diego Toyran and Armani Garcia.
01:06We started looking for the migratory blackfin tuna that normally this time of year, right around Halloween, they move in.
01:12And every year, just south of Key West, before we hit the first wreck, there's a pretty well-known spot called the Rubble Pile,
01:18a spot that many years ago they threw different debris from different construction sites and whatnot,
01:24in about 200 foot of water.
01:26And there's enough debris down there that it holds a pretty good amount of fish throughout the year.
01:30So we charge out to the first wreck, and you're reading a structure to try to find the blackfins.
01:48That was going to be our goal on these wrecks.
01:50And there was a lot of life on these structures, with the exception of blackfins.
01:57But we decided, let's give it a workout, see what's happening.
02:00Down below were a lot of toothy fish, and Diego happened to catch a small king on his jig.
02:09Looking for tunas.
02:10If you're taking a guess, what are you guessing?
02:13A jack.
02:14Runner.
02:15Yeah.
02:15Big runner.
02:15Here it comes.
02:17What do we have this time here?
02:18Oh.
02:19You got the, uh...
02:20Mackerel.
02:21The king.
02:22Little king.
02:23Yeah, you do.
02:25Well, he's a king mackerel.
02:26They have to be 24 inches.
02:29We'll see what he is.
02:30Oh.
02:32There you go.
02:32Yeah, he finally cut.
02:33Almost.
02:34Got him, though.
02:35Proved you had a lot of those fish down there that were just eating those jigs right off.
02:39So, uh, Armani drops down, and he hooks up solidly.
02:45And that rod bends, and he's in a heck of a fight.
02:51Oh, yeah.
02:53Oh, that's the AJ.
03:01That's the AJ, brother.
03:06Oh, yeah, that's a good one.
03:07What does it feel like, AJ?
03:10I think so, man.
03:11It's a strong fish.
03:12It is very strong fish.
03:16To any consolation, we're off the wreck.
03:18Yeah.
03:20Oh.
03:21Here he comes, George.
03:26Big Cuda.
03:27Oh.
03:28With the wrong flavor.
03:31And a big one.
03:32I'm not surprised you held onto him.
03:34Tell you what, he's pretty good size.
03:35Hey, that's a monster Cuda.
03:36I'll get the rod out.
03:44Look at the size of that.
03:46That's a tank.
03:46Check that out.
03:47That is a tank.
03:51Yeah, that's a...
03:52Come on, give me a little mug shot here.
03:55You gotta hand this thing up here.
03:57It's a pretty big-sized barracuda.
03:59So Armani pulls in this monster barracuda, okay?
04:14And one of the biggest cudas I've seen in quite some time.
04:18Photographed it, videoed it the whole bit, and sent it back on its way.
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04:38With the slow pick and the Atlantic wrecks off Key West in the Florida Keys,
04:44and thoughts of switching over to yellow tailing, Armani hooks up once again.
04:49So with that, we bounced around different wrecks just trying to find any black fins which were scarce.
04:55But there was a lot of activity, and we still dropped down.
04:59And Armani hooks up again on his monofilament spin outfit
05:04and brings in a beautiful yellow jack.
05:08There you go.
05:08How come you're letting him hook all the real big ones?
05:11Telling me.
05:11I'm going to get on his side now.
05:12I'm telling you.
05:14I don't think he's going to let you in that corner.
05:15Oh, there he goes.
05:17There goes the run, huh?
05:18All right.
05:19Were you on the bottom midway up?
05:20Where were you?
05:21You know, he was about 50 foot off the bottom.
05:23You're one of the few people I know that actually do this jigging on wrecks using monofilament
05:29rather than the braid line.
05:30Yeah.
05:31Why is that?
05:33You know, the monofilament has a bit of stretch to it.
05:35And in some cases, when these fish, they decide to take a quick, hard run,
05:40that little bit of stretch is really forgiving, and it helps you keep that fish on the hook.
05:44Oh, nice yellow jack.
05:47Nice yellow jack.
05:48I got a net.
05:48Let me get a net.
05:50We got sashimi here, fellas.
05:52Hang on.
05:52Is he hooked well?
05:53Pretty fish.
05:53He's barely hooked in the lip.
05:55Oh, sorry.
05:56Get him back to you.
05:57That's what I want to hear.
05:58Nice, George.
05:59I know what you're going to be cooking up later for us.
06:04Oh, yeah.
06:05Some sashimi here.
06:06Take your catch.
06:07Well, we got a good one here, George.
06:08He's not tuna, but we'll take him.
06:10And he wanted to catch a blackfin or cereal mackerel or a yellow jack, and he wanted to make
06:19poke with it.
06:20He had all the ingredients in boat, and that was going to be your lunch.
06:23So, he was very happy when we brought this yellow jack in and put it on the ice.
06:31So, we decided to wrap it up and shoot west to see if we could get on some nice yellowtail
06:36action.
06:37That's typically where I like to take my charters when we go for yellowtail is on the reef out
06:41west.
06:42Let's charge west.
06:43Let's go on the hook and do some yellowtailing.
06:45We pushed through a couple light rain showers.
06:48So, whereas we had some nice calm water when we were hitting the wrecks, as we got down
06:53to our spot, we were looking at a good two to four with a crisp wind on it now that was
06:58starting to build up.
07:00So, was that weather window starting to close on us earlier than expected?
07:05Let's get on the hook, get the chum bag out.
07:07Let's start getting some yellowtail in this boat.
07:09So, right away, we got on the hook, and Armani took us to a great area where he normally
07:14takes his charters.
07:15And right away, we deployed the chum, and they came right up.
07:20We're looking for that big one further back.
07:22Sometimes they get behind the smaller ones, so we're playing with that.
07:30We're looking for that big boy.
07:33What you got there, George?
07:34Yellow.
07:35That's what it is.
07:37And it's an incoming right now.
07:38We got some table fare.
07:47That's what we needed.
07:48We had to secure the pokey.
07:51And we didn't do it with this.
07:52We did it with something else coming up soon.
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08:48It's back to yellow-tailing west of Key West in the Florida Keys.
08:52I'm with Diego Toyran and Armani Garcia, and our weather window is closing rapidly.
08:59Now, you get guys like Diego and Armani.
09:03And Diego, in particular, after his stint as a firefighter, he did a lot of commercial fishing
09:09for yellow-tailing and groupers, so these guys both have this all down to a science.
09:14Tons of chum, very light leaders, making everything flow back at the same rate as that chum, and
09:21just having fun.
09:23And it was like any time you could free line a bait back, you were on.
09:28And about as fast as you can get anything in the water.
09:35Almost like fishing in a stocked trout pond or something.
09:39So the keeper is a little close.
09:53We'll let this one go.
09:56Yeah.
09:57He was a little bit better, but he's still 11 and a half.
10:05We're going to let him go.
10:07We had doubles.
10:08We had triples.
10:09And that's the way this whole pace kept going.
10:12It was catching nonstop.
10:14So yellow-tailing was hot.
10:21We caught plenty of yellow-tail, but they just weren't quite the right size.
10:24Instead of spending more time and looking for another hump to find these yellow-tail,
10:28we decided that we were going to try something a little different.
10:31We had weather approaching us, and I told George I had just the idea to put some fish
10:35on the table and something specifically to get that pokey going.
10:39So the other part of what we wanted to do was something just a little bit different.
10:45Run into Hawk's Channel itself and start trolling these small rappel of lures,
10:51swimming lures, over the shallow rocks and reefs inside Hawk's Channel.
10:58These plugs work great anywhere from five feet of water out to the edge of the reef,
11:04you know, on 50, 60 foot of water.
11:05We typically troll ones that dive down from three feet to 20 feet.
11:10Today, the top water plugs were the key.
11:13We started trolling the rappel of lures.
11:15I mean, right away, we get a hit.
11:17It was a yellow-tail snapper.
11:19Pretty much the same size we were catching on the reef.
11:23We brought him in, released him, and all of a sudden, George, on that side,
11:28he gets what we were looking for, yellow jack.
11:31Oh, that's the one.
11:32Nice one, George.
11:33That's the one.
11:38And I'm out of the water, George, so you got to get that one.
11:41Oh, my.
11:42This thing just woke me up like no tomorrow.
11:46Nice.
11:46What a big yellow jack?
11:47I think so.
11:50You got the net?
11:52Yeah.
11:52Yeah, it's a yellow jack.
11:52Oh, yeah.
11:53You can surf him up.
11:54You mean more ceviche?
11:56Here he comes.
11:58He's not going to be surfed anymore.
12:00Got to work him up now.
12:01Here he comes.
12:07What a yellow jack.
12:09Nice.
12:10Nice yellow jack.
12:11You hear your Hawks Channel.
12:15He was taking it easy, coming in here, throwing his little small rapolas, light tackle.
12:20You know, dodging the rain a little bit in here, but just going to show you some of the good fishing you can do just going light, just having fun.
12:27Hawks Channel is a navigable nearshore belt spanning along the Florida Keys' Atlantic side.
12:33Averaging 10 to 30 feet deep, its assorted rocks and patch reefs provide habitat and foraging zones for numerous marine species.
12:41The cooler water is a winner, seeing an influx of value into Hawks Channel and, in turn, snappers, groupers, mackerel, and other species.
12:49The best bet, troll small swimming plugs across structures and around bait being preyed upon.
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14:30You know, trolling these plugs is not something that you typically see done here in the Keys.
14:37But through my years of guiding, I've found it very effective, especially when the bite is not quite right on the reef.
14:45The current's a little off.
14:46You could really make great use of these trolling plugs.
14:49So we pulled up the Simrad.
14:52And you had the C-MAP reveal.
14:54And you had their high-definition bathymetric chart.
14:57And you see such a vivid outline of Hawk's Channel in the exact spots that you wanted to troll over.
15:05And guess what?
15:06A cereal mackerel showed up.
15:08A mackerel.
15:08Look, look, look, look.
15:09Oh.
15:10We got a nice cereal on this one, too.
15:13Oh, wow.
15:14That is a nice cereal.
15:15We got a nice cereal.
15:25Wait a minute.
15:26Let's say it's a sure thing here.
15:28Get him in.
15:29Get him in.
15:30All right.
15:31There you go.
15:31Good, good, good.
15:32With a free hand, grab that pliers and unhook the rappler.
15:37Captain.
15:38Hawk's Channel is coming alive.
15:40Something interesting about the Yellow Jacks is they're a schooling fish, and they stay pretty tight-knit.
15:46So when we catch one, you'll see three, four, five, or six follow up the other ones.
15:50And they'll follow those fish right up to the boat.
15:53A lot of times, giving the other anglers on the boat a chance to catch one or even the whole school sometimes.
15:58The Yellow Jack came and ate him.
15:59Oh, yeah.
15:59Oh, Yellow Jack.
16:00Right here, look.
16:01Yellow Jack's eating him.
16:02He's a big one, too.
16:03He's got a real use behind.
16:04It might be more behind him.
16:04You just got upgraded there, George.
16:05Huh?
16:06You got upgraded.
16:07In a good way.
16:07Yeah.
16:08Oh, man, what a sight that is.
16:11Went from cloth to leather, like two seconds.
16:14Wow.
16:15I got the net when you're ready.
16:16All right.
16:18Oh, they're doing behind.
16:19Diego, throw behind this one.
16:20The school's right behind him, Diego.
16:21Throw right behind there.
16:22Cast.
16:22Right next to him.
16:23Let's net him.
16:25And he's an inbounder.
16:27There's the other one hanging with him.
16:29Right here, Diego.
16:30Oh, he just came out.
16:31You toss him back there.
16:32Throw out there.
16:32Fancy, he's going to reel it in fast.
16:34Hey, he's hooked up.
16:35Nice one, Diego.
16:36Yeah.
16:36About time, Diego.
16:38There we go.
16:39Just flipping, man.
16:40Bring him in.
16:41Come over here, Diego.
16:43You know what?
16:43I don't mind telling you.
16:44Mine's bigger.
16:45Yeah, you're right.
16:46I'll even give you three feet.
16:47Hit me at the camera more.
16:48I'll come back here.
16:48Mine's still bigger.
16:49Okay.
16:50This time.
16:50This time.
16:51This time.
16:52We're not done yet.
16:55Oh, boy.
16:56Look at those Rapala X-Raps again.
16:58Deadly.
16:59They are deadly.
17:00They are deadly.
17:01They are deadly.
17:02George said it.
17:02I got a bigger one.
17:04And there he came.
17:05He landed him.
17:05He landed him.
17:06He landed the biggest one of the day.
17:08And I'm sure we would have kept on fishing.
17:10There would have been a lot more.
17:11But George says, that's it.
17:12We got dinner.
17:13We got pokey.
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17:50So we trolled the plugs for quite a bit, and we did very well.
17:55We caught all the fish that we needed that day.
17:57We wrapped it up as we were still in the middle of quite a rainstorm.
18:00And I knew a beach that wasn't far away.
18:03I took George and set up something special with those Yellow Jacks.
18:16The heck we're going into Publix and buying all the boar's head meats and everything, which
18:21we had, because once he puts out that fresh fish, you know, the boar's head is going to
18:26stay in its package.
18:27We laid the Yellow Jacks, beautiful white meat.
18:29And I wanted to do something a little different than a traditional ceviche, so I wanted to
18:33do a pokey today.
18:35I had a great mix of scallions, sesame oil, ponzu sauce, and a great treat on the boat.
18:42And, you know, when you're on the boat, you don't have everything you have in your kitchen,
18:45so again, we made it work.
18:46We mixed it in a Ziploc bag.
18:48George had some solo cups, and we had a great feast on the boat, and we didn't feel like
18:53we were missing out on anything.
18:54And we made this little weather window work in our favor, and to cap it off, it was definitely
19:01the Yellow Jacks pokey that just made a sensational trip that much greater.
19:07And a quick run in, we were all tied up at the Perry, tidying up the Mark VI.
19:12Here's this wind coming up the whole bit.
19:14You know, at that point, who cares?
19:16We made our weather window work, and it worked in our favor this time.
19:19Well, another great day here in the Florida Keys.
19:21We ended the day, you know, we didn't catch, like, the blackfin tuna, they didn't show up,
19:26but it's okay.
19:27We made it up with the Yellow Jack and the pokey.
19:29So we picked up and beat the weather window.
19:32I mean, we got lucky.
19:33And sometimes that's the way it works out.
19:35Either you get in time, or it catches you, get a little wet, but it's okay.
19:39You make the best of it.
19:40The beauty of Key West is that, for the most part, if you have some weather moving in,
19:46you have opportunities to fish, depending on what wind direction is going on at the time.
19:52You have the Gulf side.
19:53You have the Atlantic side.
19:54You've got the lee of certain islands.
19:57And there's usually a place that you could fish.
19:59So if you're in a weather window situation, you know, for the most part,
20:04you better hope it's in Key West, because more times than not,
20:06you're going to sneak through that weather window, as we did in Key West,
20:10without a doubt, shine brightly because of its fishing opportunities.
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