Florida Fishing Reports

Miami and Key Biscayne – offshore - Dolphin Fishing is still good Its hard to believe the fishing off the coast of Miami is still going. Dolphin are moving through in the area of 1,000 ft and eating live baits best. Some big fish are still being caught. We had a nice fish in the more...
Capt. Quinton Dieterle - Key Biscayne

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - My first charter this past week was at night in Biscayne Bay. We only jumped three of the baby tarpon but had shots at quite a few more. As usual the fly to use was a 1/0 Night Fly, a simple white tarpon pattern. The fish are beginning to shift to more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 8/2/2003 by Capt. Butch Rickey I’ve had many great trips with many, many wonderful people, most of whom I fish with every year, or more frequently. But, this week will go down as one of the most fun weeks of my career, bar n more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Dog Days Of Summer It was as if someone had pulled the plug on a shallow swimming pool. There was a two-foot wide vortex of churning water where just a moment before was a hapless scaled sardine fluttering on the surface. My drag was having a majo more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Today I traveled north to St. Lucie Inlet to do some snook fishing. We used greenies (threadfin herring) for bait. As soon as the sun popped up above the horizon, the bait showed up in massive quantities. It took just 10 minutes to catch 4 dozen b more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Stick Marsh & Farm 13 - Date fished: 8/2/03 - Saturday had to be one of the hottest day I have ever spent on the water, and also one of the shortest. I could actually feeling the sun burning my arms. However, some 48 SPF sunshield kept me safe as I worked rattle traps and more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Jacksonville Fishing Report for Amelia Island & Mayport - This action is so HOT, if you don't have fun, you need to forget about fishing!!! Near-Coastal Report - 8/4/03 The water was warmer yesterday, and the incoming tide was so absolutely green and clear that we could see fish swimming down on more...
Capt. Dave Sipler - Jacksonville

Central Indian River Lagoon - Capt. Ron Bielefeld's Indian River Lagoon Report - Sebastian Area The fishing the past week or so has been basically the same as it has been over the last month, fair to good very early and late in that day. Trout and snook have been feeding from more...
Capt. Ron Bielefeld - Indian River Lagoon

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Go for a Slam! Grand slams have been common the past two weeks. If you aren't familar with the inshore slam it consists of catching a tarpon, snook and redfish in the same day. All three species have been available in Charlotte Harbor and Pine I more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - It's not to late for great tarpon fishing. We enjoyed some awesome tarpon action this past week. 8-3-2003 We invested some time looking around but it paid dividends. Some days we had several double hook ups. We had two today. more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande