Florida Fishing Reports

Fernandina to Saint Augustine & St. Johns River - Inshore/nearshore report Jacksonville area March/April are transition months here in north Florida. The cold fronts are weaker, and the water starts to warm up a bit. The wind, however, can be a challenge. The water temperature was 67 degrees yest more...
Capt. Bob Cosby - Jacksonville

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - East Winds Gives This Captain Writers Cramp Hi ya'll, not much happening; just a bunch of east wind. This is crap to fish in. But we have managed to do ok. On Friday afternoon March 23rd Bill and Marcie Buck of St. Louis enjoyed some pretty go more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - SPRING POMPANO RUN BEGINS The highly sought-after Florida pompano have returned for their spring run across the Forgotten Coast. With surface water temperatures in the high sixties, these little finny gourmets are being caught all along the beache more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Schools of big jack crevalles continued to ravage baitfish and mullet around the mouth of the Little Manatee River last week. The fish had foot long mullet leaping onshore to escape the frenzy. That’s about all the action we had this week because it more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Right on Schedule The beach water temp hit 68 degrees 2 days ago and all of God's finny critters are reacting just the way we love 'em to. I have not had a chance to spend the day cobia fishing yet but have spent a little while looking after bot more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Key West and Lower Keys - Permit Like Windy Conditions. March 26, 2007. Permit are the main course on the Key West flats these breezy March days! February and March have been very good for Permit fishing here in the Lower Keys, Key West and the Marquesas. In the above phot more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Miami and Key Biscayne – offshore - Sailfish Action Great Sailfishing has been great even with the high seas. Yesterday started off a bit slow but by the time we were starting to thiink it might be a slow day the fishing went off. First was a nice sail, then some dolphin and then more...
Capt. Quinton Dieterle - Key Biscayne

South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami - I just returned from the latest FLW Redfish tournament in Titusville. Its pretty cool to be fishing within sight of the space shuttle launch site. As things go pre-fishing was a success we had school after school of Redfish come at us. We felt confid more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Fishing Report for Indian River & St. Lucie River - Offshore - The past two weeks have been windy but this week has been just about unfishable due to the weather. The larger boats have been having some great days catching both dolphin and sailfish. One boat last Sunday released nine sails and also came in with s more...
Capt. Kevin Drennan - Stuart

Fishing Report for Ft. Lauderdale & Port Everglades - Fishing is getting hot! March had started off slow for us and then on top of that the winds kicked up for almost a month now. We haven't been out to the Swordfishing grounds but closer to shore we have been having a thrilling time. Seas hace be more...
Capt. Cary Hanna - Fort Lauderdale