Florida Fishing Reports

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Mahi-mahi and Sharks! The consistent East winds have blown in a lot of Mahi-mahi (Dolphin fish). We have had some fish over 20 lbs. and plenty of gaffers. Some schoolie sized fish are around too. Most of the fish have been in 300 to 500 feet of more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Miami, Florida - Offshore - Dolphin action is heating up. We were hearing reports in previous weeks about large dolphin on the move south of us in the keys. Well, they have arrived, and we are beginning to see catches of larger dolphin occurring in our area. Many anglers are fi more...
Capt. Mark Houghtaling - Miami

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 5/8/04 by Capt. Butch Rickey Things slowed down a bit this week. I had a couple of days off because of weather and poor tides. I woke up Monday morning wondering what the status of an approaching front would be. I quickly more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - The good news is that the dolphin are here and they are in close. The bad news is that the wind is still kicking and you need a strong stomach to handle the sea conditions. Throw in some blackfin tuna, kingfish, and sailfish and you have offshore s more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Central Indian River Lagoon - Capt. Ron Bielefeld's Indian River Lagoon Report - Sebastian Area Some big trout and snook have been frequenting the shallows early in the mornings and they have been hitting top-water plugs over shallow grassy flats. We caught trout to 8 lbs and more...
Capt. Ron Bielefeld - Indian River Lagoon

Sarasota and Venice - Sarasota, FL Fishing Report for 5/2 through 5/9/2004 Anglers on the Snook Fin-Addict had good action during the past week on lures and flies, particularly with trout. In addition, anglers caught and released redfish, snook and bluefish while fishi more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Flamingo - Everglades National Park - Awesome Spring Action A solid two months of high winds and high pressure systems hasn’t put too much of a dampening on the backcountry fishing. I’ll start with most recent reports and work myself backwards; Pete Oppenheimer, Ed, and Chris scored more...
Capt. Ariel Cabrera - Flamingo

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - It's been a while since my last report. The few days off in the last three weeks have been hard running, fix what's broken, and get ready for the next long sequence of bookings. Enough excuses. Now that I have a breather it will be paperwork, fish more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Stick Marsh & Farm 13 - Submitted by George - 7/9/04 Water Temps: mid 70's Air Temps: low 80's Winds: Breezy Barometer: high The balance of last week was a bit slow. Kevin Conley from Dover Ohio arrived on the 3rd and spent the day with Scott on the south end of th more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - Everglades Kayak Fishing at its Best April produced some very big tarpon. Trout and redfish were a staple. The permit action was really slower that expected, but the snook bite kicked in. However, for me at least, the Everglades Kayak Fishing more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City