Calendar of Events
Current Florida Keys Fishing Events
- Sponsored Event
- Oct 17, 2024 - Oct 20, 2024 Key Largo
- REEF Fest 2024
- Website Key Largo, FL
- 305-852-0030 E-mail
- Join us for REEF Fest 2024 and celebrate ocean conservation! Come together for a weekend filled with diving, snorkeling, and kayak eco-tours. Enjoy engaging seminars and connect with fellow ocean lovers!
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- Sponsored Event
- Jan 09, 2025 - Jan 12, 2025 Key West
- KEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR
- Website Coffee Butler Amphitheater
- 21 Quay Rd Key West FL 33040
- 305-293-9291 E-mail
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- Calling all readers! The 42nd annual Key West Literary Seminar explores “Family” with renowned authors like John Irving, Ayana Mathis, and S.A. Cosby. Four days of engaging talks, book signings, music, and parties celebrating this vibrant literary city!
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- Sponsored Event
- Nov 30, 2024 - Nov 30, 2024 The Lower Keys
- The Island Art Festival 2024
- Website Lower Keys Chamber Grounds MM31
- 31020 Overseas Hwy | Mile Marker 31 Big Pine Key FL 33042
- Lower Keys Chamber of Commerce E-mail
- 'Tis the season for unique finds! Discover hand-crafted treasures, stunning art, and specialty gifts perfect for every holiday wish list. With something for everyone and prices that sparkle, your holiday shopping just got a lot more fun!
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- Sponsored Event
- Oct 04, 2024 - Oct 06, 2024 Key Largo
- Take Stock In Children Backcountry Challenge
- Website Florida Keys Elks Lodge
- 92600 Overseas Hwy Tavernier FL 33070
- Key Largo Rotary E-mail
- Join the 24th annual Take Stock in Children Backcountry Challenge! A weekend of catch-and-release fishing, a kickoff party and an awards banquet! Proceeds go to the Take Stock in Children program, funding scholarships for students in Monroe County.
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- Sponsored Event
- Oct 18, 2024 - Oct 27, 2024 Key West Arts & Culture
- Fantasy Fest 2024
- Website Key West
- 305-295-9112 E-mail
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- This outrageous 10-day costuming and masking celebration features flamboyant masquerade competitions, and over 30 cleverly themed Parties and performances. Togas, Tutu’s, Body Paint and Burlesque, Halo’s, and Homemade Bikinis. Join the fun!
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- Sponsored Event
- Jan 18, 2025 - Jan 19, 2025 Key West
- Key West Half Marathon & Runfest
- Website Key West Historical Seaport
- 231 Margaret Street Key West FL 33040
- 305-240-0727 E-mail
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- The 27th Anniversary of the Key West Half Marathon & 5k will take place during the week-end of January 18-19, 2025. On top of previous years race day events, this years race will include the Papa’s Pilar Rum Stroll and Key West Beach N’ Beer Mile!
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- Oct 4, 2024 - Oct 6, 2024 Key Largo Fishing
- Take Stock in Children Backcountry Challenge
- Website
- This annual tournament offers anglers the opportunity to win coveted trophies for trout, snook and redfish. Fishing is allowed around the clock from Friday night through Sunday afternoon. A popular weekend auction showcase and Sunday evening dinner are open to the public. Proceeds support local vocational scholarships for all ages and Take Stock in Children scholarships for financially challenged Upper Keys students.
- Oct 14, 2024 - Oct 16, 2024 Islamorada Fishing
- Islamorada Fall All-Tackle Bonefish and Permit Tournament
- E-mail Website
- The 54th annual challenge attracts energized newcomers to face seasoned veterans. One angler per boat pairs with a licensed captain to vie for division winners’ trophies for the three longest bonefish and three longest permit. Kickoff and registration takes place Sun. Oct. 13 at 6 p.m. at Islamorada Fishing Club, MM 80.9 oceanside. Launch from any location is permitted for fishing Monday through Wednesday, with the awards dinner at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the club. For information contact Wesley Locke, 941-268-1331 or wesley@lockeandkeyproductions.com
- Oct 17, 2024 - Oct 20, 2024 Marathon Fishing
- Marathon Offshore Swordfish Tournament
- Website
- Anglers choose two out of the three tournament days to fish this daytime swordfish tournament -- Friday the 18th, Saturday the 19th and/or Sunday the 20th. First and second place cash prizes of $12 thousand and $5 thousand respectively are to be awarded for the largest swordfish with at least six boats entered. If there are fewer than six boats, there will be a 70/30 split. The first three places are to be awarded swordfish head mounts by Gray Fish Mounts.
- Oct 18, 2024 - Oct 20, 2024 Islamorada Fishing
- Ladies Let’s Go Fishing! Keys Saltwater Weekend Seminar & Fishing Fever Inshore/Offshore Tournament
- Betty Bauman 954-475-9068 E-mail Website
- Female fishing fans can learn or polish angling skills during the award-winning weekend seminar and Fishing Fever tournament. More than 8,000 female graduates have immersed themselves in the annual lighthearted yet skills-heavy curriculum to learn and hone abilities in offshore, bottom, inshore and fly fishing.
- Oct 18, 2024 - Oct 19, 2024 Islamorada Fishing
- Casting for Cats Backcountry Tournament
- Sharon Mahoney Ellenwood 305-664-2012 Website
- This formerly all-female tournament now has a co-ed division and a women’s division. Anglers earn points for catching bonefish, permit, tarpon, snook and redfish using bait, artificial lures or fly tackle. Points are also awarded for ladyfish, sharks, jacks and spotted seatrout. The event is a major fundraiser to help control the feral cat population in the Upper Keys.