Captain
Daniel Zier

Member since November 2022 Stock Island, United States
Background
I grew up fishing the Florida keys for over 40 years. Fishing is second nature to me. What I enjoy most is watching people catch big trophy fish. I love fishing so much I even go on my days off.
Techniques
Definitely my favorite type of fishing is going for big sharks. Its a guarantee!! Drop anchor put out 4 or 5 big baits out and wait for the drag to start screaming. Also in the summer time I enjoy snorkeling the reefs spearfishing hog fish, grouper, snapper and looking for lobster. Tarpon fishing right at dark is also super fun with live bait.

Hey, I'm Captain Daniel Zier

Stock Island, United States
Background
I grew up fishing the Florida keys for over 40 years. Fishing is second nature to me. What I enjoy most is watching people catch big trophy fish. I love fishing so much I even go on my days off.
Techniques
Definitely my favorite type of fishing is going for big sharks. Its a guarantee!! Drop anchor put out 4 or 5 big baits out and wait for the drag to start screaming. Also in the summer time I enjoy snorkeling the reefs spearfishing hog fish, grouper, snapper and looking for lobster. Tarpon fishing right at dark is also super fun with live bait.
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Key West Fishing Connection

State licensed
Excellent
5.0 / 5
(86 reviews)
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Stock Island
 3 bookings in the past week.
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Fishing Reports

3hr shark trip
3hr shark trip
Jun 14, 2025 Stock Island
Awesome 3-hour shark trip this morning. We released a few black tips and lemon sharks up to 8 feet and one lemonover 200lbs. Shark fishing is always good, but summertime is the best. Let's go fishing!!!
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Prime time for big key west tarpon
Prime time for big key west tarpon
Jun 8, 2025 Stock Island
The last few days the tarpon fishing has been very good. Big fish all over a 100lbs. The evening snapper bite has also been amazing. And the sharks are always biting. Let's go fishing.
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Trophy black tip shark!!
Trophy black tip shark!!
May 23, 2025 Stock Island
The shark and golith grouper action has been non-stop the last few days. With tarpon and night time, snapper biting as well. Time to book a trip and go catching!! Key west fishing connection
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Snapper for dinner
Snapper for dinner
May 8, 2025 Stock Island
The snapper fishing is red hot right now. The evening and after dark mangrove snapper and tarpon fishing has been on fire. Guaranteed fish for dinner. Book you trip now let's go get something for dinner.
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200 and a 400+ Goliath grouper
200 and a 400+ Goliath grouper
May 2, 2025 Stock Island
Some unbelievable grouper and shark fishing the last few days. Lemon sharks, bull sharks, black tips, and lots of Goliath grouper. Its time to go fishing!!!
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Sharks 100% guaranteed
Sharks 100% guaranteed
Apr 24, 2025 Stock Island
The shark fishing today was on fire. It was pretty much all you wanted to reel in. We caught and released 10nor more big lemon sharks and 2 big Goliath grouper up to 100lbs.
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Customer reviews

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Excellent
5.0 / 5
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Excellent
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Excellent
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Dale H.
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Great time

VERIFIED   3 Hr โ€“ close to home shark fishing on May 26, 2024
My wife and I went out with Captain Dan and had an awesome experience. We hooked some lemon sharks and a blacktip shark then...
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Candice W.
Excellent
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Caught a big one!

VERIFIED   4 Hr Trip โ€“ Evening Shark & Tarpon on May 17, 2024
Captain Daniel was great!ย  He knew right where to go and in less than 5 minutes we had multiple big sharks coming to us.ย ...
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Christopher C.
Excellent
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Shark and grouper trip!

VERIFIED   6 Hr Trip โ€“ Tarpon, Shark, Snapper on March 8, 2024
Awesome day on the water and memorable experience on the water! The captain knew all the spots for the sharks and Goliath grouper....
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John P.
Excellent
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Key West Fishing Connection

VERIFIED   3 Hr โ€“ close to home shark fishing on May 16, 2024
Captain Dan was AWESOME! My son and I went out to the flats for a half day of shark fishing with Captain Dan and let me tell...
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Ricsi K.
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Awesome trip!

VERIFIED   6 Hr Trip โ€“ No Shark No Pay on April 2, 2024
We choose the no shark no pay and probably after an hour we caught our to shark at the same time with my brother, amazing feeling...
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