The height of the camping season in the Florida Keys coincides with the mild temperatures from November through Easter. Sometimes they go back for several days in August to dive for lobster. Troy and Christine schedule their annual week long treks to the Keys in May, when the fishing is good and before the summer heat. I caught my biggest tarpon on a fly rod, a 130-pounder, at Long Key.” “We’ve hooked tons of tarpon right off Long Key,” said Troy. Like many Long Key campers, Perez and his wife Christine beach their flats skiff at their campsite, and when they’re not wading the shallows for bonefish, they run their boat about 300 yards offshore where they fish for big tarpon. Mile markers are set up every mile noting the distance to Key West. Of the dozens of campgrounds and resort parks along the more than 100 miles of the Florida Keys from Key Largo to Key West, none offer a closer association with the exceptional fishing and boating available in the Keys than Long Key State Park. “It’s the only place I’ve ever found where you can catch a 10-pound bonefish right on the beach at your campsite.” “That’s why I camp there every year,” said Perez, 40, who was first introduced to Long Key and its fishing 32 years ago during family camping trips with his father, Al Perez. John, has fished in a lot of different places, but he says nothing equals the angling possibilities at Long Key, a state facility with 66 campsites, all at the water’s edge. Troy Perez, the well-known redfish guide from Port St.

1 and a 4-hour drive from Brevard County where your campsite sits literally on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean.

But we’re talking about a place less than 100 yards off U.S. Sure, there are spots in the Bahamas, or even more remote locations like Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean where bonefish all but knock at your door. ISLAMORADA - Where in the world can a camper slip out of his or her RV at daybreak, walk 50 feet and catch a prized bonefish? For starters, try Long Key State Park southwest of Islamorada in the Florida Keys. Long Key Park only step away from bonefish

Camping in the Keys a step away from bonefish.

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