Florida keys trip!

The wife and went to the keys for a 15 year wedding anniversary trip. We stayed at the Cheeca Lodge in Islamorada. We ate a lot of good food and fished one day. We went about 8 miles offshore and caught snapper and grouper. We then came in inshore to 25' and I saw a frigate bird dive on bait. I threw a ballyhoo out and hooked one of three sailfish that was chasing bait. It was about 50 pounds. We then went and caught some yellow tail and lane snapper to finish the day off.

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Blackened Mahi Sandwich from Lorelei
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Pig slop from the Stuffed Pig
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Blackened Mahi sandwich from The tiki bar at Cheeca Lodge
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Cuban pork and rice rolls from Tarpon Creek bar and grill and pork nachos with avacado sauce
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Looks like a great trip. The keys are on my wife's bucket list

Looks like a wonderful trip. Great pics, thanks for sharing.

Encrusted Grouper with a key lime sauce from Lazy Days
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More slop but from the Hungry Tarpon
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Pimento cheese and bacon stuffed burger from M.E.A.T.
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Beignets from Huey's in Savannah on the way home
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Grouper
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Looks like a great trip. In the Keys the fishing is great and you don't have to go to far out to find what your looking for. And your killing me showing pics of that grouper and mahi that y'all ate.

I have a video my wife took of me fighting the sailfish. Tapatalk won't upload the video for some reason. I will upload it to my YouTube page and post the link.


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Good eating

Good eatin'

Looks like a great trip!

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Glad that you and the wife had a fantastic time and a happy anniversary. The food looked good. Thanks for sharing post and pictures

Glad y'all had a great time. The food looks wonderful and it looks like y'all had good weather. It had to be hard to come back. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome post Brandon! I'm glad you and the wife had a great anniversary trip. Man, that food looks great! Me and my bride went to the keys on our honeymoon and we still talk about all the good food we ate. Your pics brought back some good memories. And hey, congrats on the sailfish. Looks like that thing put up a fight. I guess you've had plenty of training from wrestling fish with racing stripes on the long poles! LOL


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Lazy Days is my favorite place to eat! You were definately in the right place to catch fish. I have never had a bad trip to the keys. Congrats on the great anniversary trip!

Thanks for sharing the report on a great trip. Enjoyed all the pictures and video :) Congrats on 15 years together :ThumbsUp

Brandon I got hungry just looking at the pictures. Mighty fine eating, but you have to be brave to eat Pig Slop. That's because my job growing up was to slop the hogs every morning before school and every afternoon when i got home.
I noticed you had Cinnetec logo wear. My neighbor is the distributor for this area. Gave me one of the spinning reels to "field trial". Pretty slick reel. He has dozens of cases of reels in his basement.

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Great video.

You had a great trip for a honey moon, 15 years congratulations. Enjoyed your trip and pictures. Thank you for sharing it with us. Where to next year?:highfive

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Brandon I got hungry just looking at the pictures. Mighty fine eating, but you have to be brave to eat Pig Slop. That's because my job growing up was to slop the hogs every morning before school and every afternoon when i got home.
I noticed you had Cinnetec logo wear. My neighbor is the distributor for this area. Gave me one of the spinning reels to "field trial". Pretty slick reel. He has dozens of cases of reels in his basement.

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You must live in Mallard Lakes. I use 14 of the Cinnetic Crafty 1500 size reels on my crappie rods. I am a pro staffer for the reels and clothing. My neighbor bought into the Cinnetic Lifestyle clothing side of it.

Make sure you call your neighbor Brad, "Booster" for me the next time you see him.


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You must live in Mallard Lakes. I use 14 of the Cinnetic Crafty 1500 size reels on my crappie rods. I am a pro staffer for the reels and clothing. My neighbor bought into the Cinnetic Lifestyle clothing side of it.

Make sure you call your neighbor Brad, "Booster" for me the next time you see him.


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Actualy I live in Lexington Heights. Brad's dad Henry lives a couple of doors down from me. He is a silent partner, also he has the basement. Good fellas, both of them.

Thats awesome.

My wife and I honeymooned and stayed at Cheeca back in September. Could not of asked for a better time and place in the keys. That time of year not much fishing wise that is different from what i have in the NC coast, so we played around the dock with a few keeper mangrove snappers, and we even caught a few 20-25lb tarpon while others on charters blanked. Food is amazing.