
Hawk's Cay Resort occupies 60 acres of Duck Key. Route 1, heading south to Marathon and Key West, is on the right. In the Florida Keys, you're never more than a few steps away from fishing, some of it the best in the country. And when you're staying at Hawk's Cay Resort on Duck Key, located halfway down the island chain, you're in the middle of it all--with flats-cruising bonefish and tarpon and redfish in Florida Bay, and dolphin and billfish offshore. Hawk's Cay can host up to 2000 guests in both inn rooms and villas on its 60 acres. Fishing is everywhere you look: Hire one of the resort's five offshore and backcountry guides, rent a boat and go for snappers and grouper on your own, or just fish from shore--the entrance bridge is a nighttime hotspot for tarpon and sharks. Hawk's Cay


By: Mike Toth It was the very same joke I’d heard more than 30 years ago, right at this very spot, when I was a teenager. “I need to get some ballyhoo,-¿ announces a fisherman in the small crowd gathered outside the luncheonette window at Bud N’ Mary’s Fishing Marina. “Bally who?-¿ asks another. I’d caught a 7-foot-plus Atlantic sailfish that time, so I took the lame baitfish pun as a positive sign. I was here now with my son, Joe, early on a June morning because Bud N’ Mary’s owner Richard Stanczyk had told me the tarpon, snook, and redfish were biting in the backcountry region of Florida Bay. I wanted to give Joe a day he’d never forget, much like mine when I’d caught that big sail. If that joke was an omen, we were well on our way National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce







