Florida Fishing Reports

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 1/6/07 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was another unseasonably warm weather week, even for southwest Florida. Of course, it was the holiday week, and I wasn’t on the water until Friday. It was a beautiful, albeit windy day for my more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Boca Grande, Florida Fishing Report - New Year Looking Good Trout fishing has re-opened giving everyone another option for taking home fish dinner. Most of the deeper flats and potholes are holding keeper trout. The bite has been on the light side so a fast action sensitive tip will p more...
Capt. Andy Boyette - Boca Grande

Marathon, Florida Keys - Big January Dolphin The fact that the weather has been so warm and the waters around the Keys are about 6-10 degrees above normal for this time of year has had it's good and bad points. The bad is that the winter migratory fish have been a bit spo more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon

Report for Sebastian Florida - Last week we fished again with our best buddy, Rick Pino of Sebastian. After a morning of constant action with sea trout and ladyfish--and a smattering of small jacks thrown in--we decided to make our way down toward the Sebastian Inlet. And using more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Sebastian

Mosquito Lagoon & North Indian River Lagoon - Above normal water levels and temperatures pushing 80 degrees have made winter fishing in the Mosquito Lagoon seem more like late spring. I cannot complain about fishing in shorts in January, though. Sight fishing for redfish and trout remains hot more...
Capt. Chris Myers - Mosquito Lagoon

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Giant Wahoo drift fishing off Ft. Lauderdale A 79 lb. wahoo on a 20 # test boat rod outfit! Yes, thats the fish of the week for us over here on the Catch My Drift. Caught by a customer that hadn't ever fished a day in his life. It was unbelievab more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: Nice mangrove snapper, a hogfish, Spanish mackerel and sheepshead After some family time to bring in the new year, I headed offshore again on Tuesday, Fishing with brothers Mark and Tony Kapala in 35 feet out of New Pass with more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Orlando, FL - Lake Toho, Clermont Chain & The Kissimmee Chain - Johns Lake The past week I have had several days out on Johns Lake, some scouting trips and some with clients. The waters have held a fairly steady temperature in the mid to upper 60’s. Bass overall have been hitting good, with one day of having t more...
Capt. Tim Fey - Orlando

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Happy New Year everyone. We've sent 2006 on its way into the history books and welcomed in 2007. The last week of 2006 saw Knot Nancy at Bob Hewes Boats in North Miami getting a new pair of Yamaha 200 HP HPDI engines with Command Link. They were i more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fernandina to Saint Augustine & St. Johns River - Inshore fishing report The water temperature is ranging from 58 to 60 degrees. The sheephead are biting fairly well on both fiddlers and live shrimp fished on 1/8 0z. jigheads along the jetty rocks. Some are good size and all are excellent table f more...
Capt. Bob Cosby - Jacksonville