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Florida Keys Sport Fishing Custom Charters
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“Papa Pip’s”
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“Pip’s
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2-3-4 Package: Two people, three
full-day custom charters, and four-night stay.
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Reservation Policy for Marathon Florida Fishing Charters $500 to confirm reservation for fishing & lodging packages. Half the charter amount to confirm half- or full-day custom fishing charters. Payment of the balance is due upon arrival. Cancellation policy: With a 60-day notice your $500 fishing and lodging deposit is fully refunded. With a 48-hour notice your custom charter reservation is fully refunded. Cancellations received after the deadline are not refunded. If we are able to re-rent the unit and re-book the charter, we will refund the deposit, less 10 percent handling fee. No refunds for early departure. We reserve the right to cancel a reservation. |
 
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Tuna
Wahoo Sailfish
Grouper
Permit Sharks and more Back Country
Bridge Flats M. M. 47.5 Bayside
Marathon, Florida Keys Offshore, Reef, and Bay Fishing |
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Offshore,
Reef, and Bay Fishing |
Tarpon
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Flats
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Captain Johnny Maddox – "Papa Pip’s" 29-foot Topaz Captain Johnny Maddox is one of our top Offshore/Blue Water specialists, onboard his 29ft Topaz Express "Papa Pip". He enjoys fishing with angers from all walks of life, both the experienced and novice! He loves to bring them into the world of sport fishing, and help them to have an experience of a lifetime that they wont soon forget! The drama of the hunt, the explosion of emotion at the strike, and the thrill of the catch with new friends is what Capt. Johnny enjoys the most! |
John's most memorable fish story and charter were with Ted, a fellow marine and Vietnam vet who had never fished Blue Water before. Ted had been working here at Captain Pip's on the boat rental dock, and had watched John come in day after day with great catches of Dolphin. One day John and the mate convinced Ted to go out with them to see exactly what it was all about! Off they went, all three of them, heading for offshore, telling tall fish tales and rigging some fresh Ballyhoo. Ted's largest fish caught was a 6 ½ lb Black Bass, to which John replied "We use bait bigger than that for Marlin fishing!!". Ted refused to believe them, and at that moment the left outrigger went off! 20 minutes later Ted had caught his first salt water fish, an 89" sailfish! After lots of pictures, curse words, high fives and handshakes they started to put their lines back out. The center rigger, or shotgun, was the first line out with a large Billy Bait, followed by the right outrigger. Before they got the rod in the holder, the shotgun went off, and Ted had his second fish of the day, a 45lb Wahoo! What a fishing trip! Book a trip with Captain Johnny Maddox for a memorable Florida Keys charter fishing excursion. Book a fishing trip with Captain Johnny Maddox for a memorable Florida Keys charter fishing excursion. |
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“When you find a job you love, you never work a day in your life.” Capt. Jeff Shelar believes this Chinese proverb sums up the reason he’s been fishing for as long as he can remember. And he hasn’t stayed at the same fishing hole – born in Daytona Beach, three years in Costa Rica, 4 years in Mexico and the rest of the time in the beautiful Florida Keys. |
As owner of Catch ‘Em All Sport Fishing Charters, Capt. Jeff specializes in light tackle and live bait fishing. He’s equally at home fishing the back country of Florida Bay for snapper and grouper, the Seven Mile Bridge for tarpon or offshore for sailfish. “Getting to meet people from all over the world and showing them the joy of fishing in the Florida Keys,” Shelar says is one of the best things about being a guide. “Last year I had two anglers from the U.K. We went sail fishing and within the first ten minutes we raised five sails. The guys literally never got a chance to rest as we caught eleven out of 14 sailfish in just a ¾ day of fishing.” As a kid Capt. Jeff spent summers on his grandmother’s farm. He says the only time he could get out of working was when he asked to go fishing. Even as a youngster he knew that fishing was more fun than working. |
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| Capt. Jeff Knapp aboard his boat Beckoning specializes in night, snook, tarpon and shark fishing. Among the things he likes most about being a guide are the people he meets and the first five minutes of a solid tarpon hook up. His most memorable charter – to date—was Steve Ilardo’s double header tarpon with his father. It’s a long story, so let’s just say Steve is a very intense and skilled angler. In the most memorable fish category, Capt. Jeff ranks a 185-pound tarpon hooked in 30-plus knot winds that took 45 minutes to bring to the boat – that’ll get your heart beating. |
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| Sometimes hooking a big tarpon is only one of the challenges. Here a good-size bull shark decided to take a bite out of Jen Fraser’s tarpon as it came to the boat. |
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When we asked Capt.
Jeff Malone for some pictures of fish he'd caught, he brought
us so many great photos we had a hard time choosing only one or two.
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Captain Jeff Malone loves to share his love of shallow water, light tackle and fly fishing with others. His favorite charter aboard his boat "Lovit Too" is any charter where his customer catches their first bonefish, tarpon or permit! His favorite fishing story is one that he will never forget, because it involves his father and him! As a boy of five or six years old he used to go commercial trout fishing with his father around the Indian Rocks area on the west coast of Florida. One day they met a man who was catching trout two at a time, one right after the other! When they approached him, he gave them a handful of his special lures. Immediately both Jeff and his father were catching as many fish as he was, and just as fast! The man catching all the fish was Bill Love of the now famous "Love’s Lures Company". The only problem young Jeff had with the lures was that they had to be twitched up and down, and he didn’t have either the strength or the coordination. So, as all good fishermen do, he improvised! He dragged the lures behind the boat while they drifted the flats. Within no time he discovered that this was the best way to catch big flounder! From that point on whenever he and his father would go fishing young Jeff was the official flounder catcher. As a budding young entrepreneur, Jeff made a deal with one of his father’s fishing buddies, Jim. For every flounder Jeff caught Jim would pay him one Kit Kat bar. Every time they came home from fishing from then on, Jeff’s bucket was never full of fish any more. Yes, you guessed it. His fishing bucket was always full of Kit Kat candy bars. When you come back from a charter with Jeff, you’ll definitely have fish in your bucket, but we’re sure he still loves the occasional Kit Kat bar. |
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