Florida Fishing Reports

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4/10/04 by Capt. Butch Rickey I saw red all week long; redfish, that it! But, with each day that passed, I had more company on the flat. After having Monday off, I was on the water Tuesday with my old friend Harold Tol more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Miami and Key Biscayne – offshore - Sailfish action Today the sailfish action was hot, 120 ft and in was were most of the fish were. Pilchards and Google eyes are the bait. Key Biscayne to Fowey was the hot bite. Tight Lines q more...
Capt. Quinton Dieterle - Key Biscayne

Stick Marsh & Farm 13 - John Haycock and his father Tom hung out the "Gone Fishin" sign and met me for a day filled with anticipation of catching a lunker bass. Leaving the ramp at daylight we headed to the south end of the Farm and I recommended top water l more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Fishing in Tampa bay. Well here we are with another great week of fishing to tell you about. The Snook fishing has been great. We caught some really nice fish this week including a 31-inch Snook, which would have to be the Snook catch of the more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - Over the past weeks due to the weather; we been having. Most of my fishing has been either in the bay or on the shallow reefs in the ocean. In the bay, the trout have cooperative; but the sizes have been on the small size.the North winds have hurt th more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Poons, Permit and Wind. Since my last fishing report we have had some of the best fishing of the year. We had to move around alot to accomodate for the high winds by jumping alot from Pine island to Marco. I prefer to fish the Pine Island are more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - The Sharks are in town! Hammerheads, Mako, Threshers, Bull Sharks and more. One Mako was caught by another boat that weighed in over 700 lbs. Just 1 1/2 miles off the beach! April is when the Sharks migrate through and it looks to be a good s more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fishing Report for Ft. Pierce, Florida - April 15, 2004 INSHORE - This has been one of those weeks that the weather just didn't cooperate at all with the high winds and the rain. These conditions made fishing tough but for the diehards that fished between the storms and found the clean w more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Soutshore Tampa Bay Report When anybody asked me when snook fishing peaks on Tampa Bay, I used to tell them April. But in recent years, April hasn’t come through. The first two weeks of this month provided few stellar days. As I write this repo more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Miami and Key Biscayne – offshore - Weather Change lights up sailfishing. Sailfishing along the florida coast lit up today. We caught 4 out of 6 sailfish and saw a couple of more. We also caught several nice dolphin. The sailfish were caught in 140 ft. and were biting pilchards. more...
Capt. Quinton Dieterle - Key Biscayne