Florida Fishing Reports

Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon - This week started with rain and wind but I had two diehards that wanted to go. We headed for the Indian River to pound the banks with finger mullet, pinfish and plastics. Chuck and Betsy braved the wind and rain and took over fifteen fish. Redfish, f more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Cobia!!! The cobia have been in this week and have been concentrated along the coast. The 20 to 30 foot depths have been hot but the grouper diggers well offshore have also been finding cobia. On Wednesday I took the George Spofford party ou more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

North Biscayne Bay Fishing Report - Fishing North Biscayne Bay with Capt. Alan Sherman North Biscayne Bay has been alive with fish activity. Schools of bait from little glass minnows to finger mullet, adult mullet, pilchards, threadfin herring and spanish sardines are schooled up thro more...
Capt. Alan Sherman - Miami

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Swordfish, Sailfish and Kingfish! The Swordfish tournament was Oct 4th, and fishing was tough for most boats. 30 boats and only 8 fish caught. We ran to our Secret Spot and set the baits out at 7:30 PM. Within the first hour we had caught and more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - This past week we've been moving into a fall pattern with lots of baitfish along side and just offshore, up and down the coast. Water temperatures dropped three to four degrees overnight from Saturday to Sunday... Fish are biting everywhere! more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - Everglades Grand Slam Fishing has been excellent recently and should be that way for a good while.  Lots of bait in the area is keeping the fish close and making them easy to pattern.  We have had very good catches of snook, both l more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - Since the last report, I been doing maintenance on my boats so I haven't been out that much. I did do a couple of reef trips and found the fish willing to eat. We caught some nice yellowtail and mangrove snappers. We did pickup a nice mutton on a liv more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

Stick Marsh & Farm 13 - Date: 10/7/03 Weather: Partly cloudy and breezy Water temps: 75 Air Temps: mid 80's Jean Laney finished his day at work and with his friend Bob they headed out to the Marsh/Farm to spend another day in search of the heart pounding minute when more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Good Stuff! The fishing the past two weeks can only be described as Good Stuff. We set a new personal record for jumped tarpon on September 24th and the rest of the fishing has been almost as good as it gets. All the areas that I fish are produc more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - Snook and red fishing are great; go fishing soon. 10-7-03 Pinch me, no don’t pinch me let me keep on dreaming. Fishing is so good most days it seems almost to good to be true. We have had some slow times but many days that we actually got tied more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande