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BoatFlorida Keys State Waters: Southwest RegionMutton Snapper · Open

Monday Key

24.59°N · 81.71°W

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Conditions
Time
1 PM
Now
Score
80
Good
Tide
0.3 ft ▲
Flooding
Current
—
Flood
Wind
9 kn
SE · steady
Sea state
Easy
1 ft @ 3 s SE
Air temp
81°
Warm
Weather
Overcast
100% cloud
Hour 1 PM. Score 80 Good. Tide 0.3ft Rising ▲. Current +0.5kn Flood. Wind 9kn SE G13. Sea 1 ft @ 3 s SE Easy. Air 81.3°.

Why this score

Current
Slack
Prime

Current regulations

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What you can keep at this spot today

Mutton Snapper
Retention open
Daily limit
5 per day
Possession
Not published
Size
Minimum 18"
Gear
Reef fish gear requirements apply
Annual quota
Not published
Other
18" TL. 5 per person within the 10 snapper aggregate. Special regulations apply in Biscayne National Park.
Other species here
Gray Snapper Retention openTarpon Retention openCommon Snook Retention openGreat Barracuda Retention open
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Source: FWC · Florida Keys State Waters: Southwest Region · synced today

Seasonality

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When Mutton Snapper is best at this spot

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SPOT PROFILE

DEPTH
8-25 ft
Sand
STRUCTURE
Drop Off
Mid

About Monday Key

Monday Key is a sand-bottom drop-off off Key West, Florida, where the seafloor falls from 10 to 25 feet at a mid-exposure edge within the Florida Keys State Waters Southwest Region. Tarpon and mutton snapper both peak from March through June, while great barracuda reach their peak from December through February, and gray snapper and common snook also use the structure. Tarpon anglers work the edge with live bait drifting using live crabs, live mullet, live pinfish, or live shrimp, and fly fishing with toad flies and worm flies covers fish moving along the drop. Mutton snapper respond to bottom fishing with cut ballyhoo, squid, live pilchards, or cut bonito placed along the sand at the base of the slope. In the cooler months, casting tube lures, needlefish lures, and topwater plugs across the shallower lip of the drop-off targets barracuda.

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