Florida Fishing Reports

Grand Slamming in Biscayne Bay - Gene Conroy and wife Linda had a nice relaxing day on the bay this week. Well, Linda relaxed while Gene got his exercise hauling in a 24 lb permit at the first spot and a 125+ lb tarpon at the second spot. It was a nice start to a sunny day with li more...
Capt. Carl Ball - Biscayne Bay

Sailfish Bite Rolls On! - The sailfishing in the middle keys continues to be fantastic! This week there were lots of fish both on the reef edge and a bit off of the reef in 150-250ft of water. Up on the reef edge chasing ballyhoo have been lots of smaller sails. Out off the more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon

Tarpon on the beach - The next stop we made was an area I found a couple years ago and its just a great spot, its deep with heavy grass and giant potholes that but up against a bunch of dead trees. This spot has not produced any monster fish but on this day it produced a more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Fort Lauderdale Fishing for Kids - With Christmas break here and the kids out of school our books have been filling quickly with anxious little fisher people. The fish are here to cooperate as well. We have fish made to order right now with spanish mackeral and bluefish just out sid more...
Capt. Mike Johnson - Fort Lauderdale

Cool and Windy - Groupers and Redfish - The fishing report is short and sweet this month. Inshore the hot ticket is redfish. Offshore the best bets are gag groupers and mangrove snappers on reefs and wrecks. The best baits are fresh frozen cigar minnows, fresh frozen white squid and f more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

False Albacore - Boca Grande, Fl. 19 Dec., 2008 Ron Whiteley, of Rotunda, fished with Capt. Pete Greenan off the beaches of Gasparilla Island on Thursday for false albacore. After finding breaking schools of false albacore just north of Stump Pass, we caught two v more...
Capt. Pete Greenan - Boca Grande

Ft. Pierce Inshore - Offshore Report - DECEMBER 19, 2008 INSHORE - The inshore fishing this week has improved along with the weather. There has been a lot of catch and release trout being caught from the Midway Road area down to the power lines. Top water baits have been working ear more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce

Backcountry Fishing on the Windy Days - I hope my suggestions of gifts that I mentioned in my last Fishing Report were helpful. For the past week we have had cool temperatures and quite a bit of wind but that has been good for some areas and not so good for others. The best thing about l more...
Capt. Alan Sherman - Flamingo

Tampa Bay Amazes - Tampa Bay Amazes Tampa Bay has been adorned with Chamber of Commerce weather the last week. Warm sunny days with light winds are inviting. The trout bite continues Hot! Canals with dark muddy bottoms are holding an amazing amount of spotted sea more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

Sailfish are here - The offshore fishing has been dominated by sailfish. There are also a good number of kingfish. The yellow tails snappers are biting good. Spanish mackerel are in the gulf big time. They provide a lot of action on light tackle Izzy more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada