Florida Fishing Reports

Tampa Bay - South Shore - That should do it for cold fronts this spring. If not, it’s time to head further south. Weather aside, fishing was quite good last week – sometimes. I had two trips – one was a bust, and the other nearly so. The first four hours of my day on Mond more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - May offers some of the best gulf fishing of the year Are you geared up and ready for some of the best fishing of the year? If you are not, I would strongly recommend that you get ready. The reasons for my upbeat outlook are straightforward en more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Amazing April Fishing April is coming to an end with a bang. We fished Friday with Tom and 11 year old Peter Kane. They had heard that permit might be found around the full moon in April as well as hoping that they could match their friend Ben Coh more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Indian River & St. Lucie River - Offshore - The past two weeks have had some crazy weather swings from warm to cool and windy as cold fronts still keep coming through this late in the season. Last week we had seas as high as twelve ft. and some river water temperatures in the sixties. We all k more...
Capt. Kevin Drennan - Stuart

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Almost! Here we go, can you say almost? What a week! Is this weather ever going to figure out what it wants to do? I know that we have definitely had our share of wind. But this has not kept us from getting out fishing, it’s just been a litt more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - Snook and pompano are bitting. Web report 4-25-05 Finally we have great fishing for snook and pompano. Weather has been the controlling factor for local fishing. We had good weather and good fishing recently; at least most of the time. The more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Everglades National Park & Biscayne Bay - Cane Polin’ Charters fishing report from April 1st to the 25th Since my last report at the end of March I was not able to be on the water for the first two weeks of April as my father, who taught me how to fish and love the sea, passed away. Out of more...
Capt. Jim Hale - Flamingo

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Grand Slam Time! It took a while this year but the tarpon are finally here in fishable numbers thoughout our region. I have been finding good numbers of tarpon from Everglades City to Boca Grande. We had success with cut bait, live herring and sof more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Miami - Haulover to Triumph Reef - Miami Fishing Report Instead of my usual day by day fishing report I’m going to give you an overall feel of what has been biting on the Lucky 27. We’ve had multiple charters since our last report and the fishing has been good. We are getting multi more...
Capt. Gil Gutierrez - Miami

Indian River Lagoon & Banana River - Spotted Tail Mosquito Lagoon report 4/25/05 This week’s fishing report from Spotted Tail, updated 4/25/05 Now booking tarpon dates for May and June along the Lee Island Beaches! You may recall in our last episode I was about to take more...
Capt. John Kumiski - Titusville