Fishing advice Marathon FL

[tsumini]

Our annual Florida trip is in Marathon the first week in Mar. My son wants to go Tarpon fishing but sounds like a little bit too early. We're considering other wreck/offshore/ reef. Can anyone recommend a good charter outfit around Marathon? Hopefully will not take my money if they know they won't catch anything. Probably just two. Jim are you fisherperson?
Thanks

[Jims5543]

Our annual Florida trip is in Marathon the first week in Mar. My son wants to go Tarpon fishing but sounds like a little bit too early. We're considering other wreck/offshore/ reef. Can anyone recommend a good charter outfit around Marathon? Hopefully will not take my money if they know they won't catch anything. Probably just two. Jim are you fisherperson?
Thanks

No I do not fish. If it was named catching I may be interested in this hobby but alas, it is indeed called fishing and does not interest me. I actually grew up fishing in the great south bay of Long Island and by the time I was 16, probably caught more fish than most men do their entire life. My dad was big into fishing, he always took me because I drove mom crazy with my hyper active energy around the house. So it seemed like a good idea to coop me up on a 16' boat.  One flounder trip, and there were many, 3 of us pulled 146 flounder out of a hole in one morning.  We mostly fished to put food on the table back in those days, we were at the very bottom of lower middle class. The boat was to be junked my dad got it for free and worked on it for a year to make it sea worthy.


To your question:

First week of March, has been noted, I will ask a few friends tomorrow that go down there all the time to fish (without me) who to use for a charter and will have you an answer by weeks and.

[tsumini]

Thanks for your time. much appreciated.

[MiniDave]

Where do you stay on Marathon? We stayed at Tranquility Bay- wonderful place!

[tsumini]

Where do you stay on Marathon? We stayed at Tranquility Bay- wonderful place!

My wife makes all travel arrangements so I don't know much other than we have five couples so we rented a five BR house somewhere near Marathon.

[Jims5543]

Near Marathon is a broad stroke find out which key you are on. I found some awesome rental homes not far from marathon  (where I stayed last summer) and will share with you for future  visits when I am on a PC.

[Jims5543]

http://www.walkaboutretreat.com/

These are the folks we use when we go down. They have some remarkable properties and are very easy to deal with.

[tsumini]

http://www.walkaboutretreat.com/

These are the folks we use when we go down. They have some remarkable properties and are very easy to deal with.

That's some nice places. We allready have a place so can't change. My wife has a rule that she won't even contact any place that doesn't say what their rates are.