One popular attraction is the factory ruins and an old cemetery on Atsena Otie, an easy paddle over for birding or fishing (and beaches better than the mainland), or you can skip the workout and get there with Island Hopper and other tour boats.Ĭedar Key moves on its own peaceful schedule, in its own, unique way. Locals have ever since subsisted on a little fishing, a little tourism. In 1896 a hurricane devastated the town, wiping out the factory on offshore Atsena Otie Key. Saltwater Assassin Fishing Charters is owned and operated by father and son team: Captains Jim Keith and Jimbo Keith, Jr. Looking back, decline set in when locals said 'no' to railroader Henry Plant, who wanted to build a deepwater harbor and hotel. We fished all over Cedar key area, outer islands, flats etc., Captain worked harder than any captain I have fished with to get us on fish. So we called him and booked a 4 hour for the next day.

so we asked some of the locals who to call and they told us about A.J. Florida's first coast-to-coast railroad had its Gulf terminus at Cedar Keys, as the town was then called.Īfter the Civil War, the place boomed for 30 years. My wife and I decided we would like to try some fishing in Cedar Key, Fl. The cedar trees that bestowed the town name supplied a large pencil factory. Since Cedar Key is still a fishing village, the Seafood Festival is held each.

In the mid-1800s the place was an industrial center. artwork that is celebrated each Spring with our annual Cedar Key Arts Festival. There are worries in Cedar Key about a storm surge of two to five feet of ocean water, Brown said, and if the storm surge reaches five feet “it would cover most everything downtown.Twice-cursed Cedar Key is probably Florida's most impressive early failure as a town. The concern is that if the storm strikes Florida just to the north, Cedar Key would get the powerful surge that comes from being on the southeastern side of the storm. Just east of the marina, sandy spits off the. In Cedar Key, a fishing village that juts out into the Gulf of Mexico, a storm surge is among the greatest concerns, said Capt. Brown Pelicans and Laughing Gulls are common around the massive fishing pier at the corner of C St. “So if you’re anywhere along the Florida Peninsula, western Florida Peninsula, so let’s say from about Fort Myers northward to the Panhandle, you’ve really got to be paying attention.” fishing in Suwannee River Entrance (12 mi.) fishing in Suwannee (Salt Creek) (15 mi.) fishing in Withlacoochee River Entrance (19 mi.) fishing in Florida Power (22 mi.) fishing in Shell Island (North End) (25 mi.) fishing in Mangrove Point (26 mi.) fishing in Horseshoe Point (26 mi. “So it will not take a strong system or a direct hit to produce significant storm surge,” he said.

That part of Florida is very vulnerable to storm surges, Jamie Rhome, deputy director of the National Hurricane Center, said Sunday. We make sure that you have an amazing time while putting you on a. Large parts of the western coast of Florida are at risk of seawater surging onto land and flooding communities when a tropical storm or hurricane approaches. Saltwater Hitman offers both half-day and full-day fishing charters out of Cedar Key, FL.

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