Florida Fishing Reports

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 1/7/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey It’s January 2nd. Trout season is officially open. After spending two days in the last week pre-fishing for keeping sized fish, John Hitt and I are ready to go out and put our limits of trout in more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Indian River & St. Lucie River - Offshore - The sailfishing off of Stuart Florida has been red hot. Large bait schools just outside the St. Lucie Inlet have been the attraction for the pods of billfish traveling through the area. Just the other day, we had for releases in a couple of hours alo more...
Capt. Kevin Drennan - Stuart

Sarasota and Venice - Southwest Florida Fishing Report for 1/2 through 1/6/2006 Anglers on the Snook Fin-Addict caught and released snook, trout, bluefish and ladyfish during the past week. Fly and spin anglers fishing Little Sarasota Bay caught and released mostly lad more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Miami - Haulover to Triumph Reef - New Year Tarpon Are Hot I’ll let you guess what I have been up to since my last report. Tarpon, tarpon, tarpon. I have been doing a lot of tarpon charters the last couple of weeks. We have been getting anywhere from 2 to 4 shots per night and have more...
Capt. Gil Gutierrez - Miami

Fishing Report for Ft. Pierce, Florida - JANUARY 6, 2006 INSHORE - Fishing has been good when the weather permitted it. Look for a lot of croakers in the 1 to 3 pound range around the Faber Cove area. The weakfish have started to show up around the Sandpit. Also, plenty of black drum, more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - WITH SINCERE APPRECIATION As is the custom each year around the holiday season, I want to take the opportunity to give special recognition and say THANK YOU to all of the fine people and companies that have been kind enough to support and sponsor more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

North Biscayne Bay Fishing Report - Fishing North Biscayne Bay, Offshore & Flamingo with Capt. Alan Sherman Wow another year of great fishing has passed and it’s time to start on this years great catches. If the great fishing of the past few months continue then 2006 is going to be more...
Capt. Alan Sherman - Miami

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Keeper gag, limits of snapper: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo at right is of a 34 inch king mackerel, our first king of the season, caught on an offshore trip Christmas Eve. Monday’s seas were predicted to be two to three feet, and I headed offs more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Marathon, Florida Keys - Dolphin & Sails The Sailfish have been biting very well the past couple of weeks, but the recent warm weather brought in the nice surprise of lots of Dolphin (Mahi-Mahi). While live bait fishing for Sailfish this past week, we have run into quite more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - I hope everyone had a nice holiday season, this is just a reminder that our explosive spring action is right around the corner. This is some the best fishing of the year that I have to offer. Now is the time to start planning your trips, my schedule more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay