Fishing Reports by Capt. Bob Smith

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Fishing has been stable The fishing has been stable with the good weather of the last few weeks. With highs and lows, we have been able to find keeper size grouper and snapper offshore. The further offshore you go, the more you find. Late more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Good weather Good Fishing This is the time of year that an old cliché “Good Weather, Good Fishing” comes into play and so on. The weather has been both good and bad for this December and the fishing has followed. The good news is that most more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Mangrove snapper are hot at the Cudahole! Although the weekend has brought us some bad boating weather, the fishing has been good to excellent! The bay grass-flats have had plenty of action with trout, Spanish mackerel, ladyfish and some blue more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Closein Action This has been a good Fall run for the Sarasota area. Kingfish, cobia, redfish, Spanish mackerel, blacktip shark, spinner shark, barracuda, seatrout and pompano are just some of the fish coming in. Some have complained the kings co more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - The fall run is on! The fall run is on! Friday morning we found the water flat along the beach and the “I” reefs. Large kingfish, little tunny, barracuda and Spanish mackerel were smashing large schools of baitfish, including some little sch more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Cobia!!! The cobia have been in this week and have been concentrated along the coast. The 20 to 30 foot depths have been hot but the grouper diggers well offshore have also been finding cobia. On Wednesday I took the George Spofford party ou more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Coming Back The fishing is getting better! There are plenty of spotted seatrout and Spanish mackerel on the grass flats. Mangrove snapper are being caught along the rocks and docks in the passes. Cobias are starting to show up on the “I” re more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - They just had lockjaw! It has been several weeks of on/off Redtide and heavy rain with flooding conditions that caused a lot of run-off into the bay. The wind stayed out of the SW and brought us early morning thundershowers, which is not the norm more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Summer Time Fishing Both inshore and offshore fishing has been good to excellent but with plenty of stops and starts. Mangrove snapper are being caught on the bay and in the Gulf out to the sixty-foot depths. The Gully area has produced more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - The Tarpon are here! The Tarpon are here! Tarpon have started to school and move along the beaches in eight to twenty feet of water. Large live baitfish or crabs will work once you find the pod. Kingfish action has slowed down but could more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota