Florida Fishing Reports

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Wednesday's rainy and windy weather had us postponing the evening tarpon charter until Thursday night. When we arrived at Government Cut on Thursday (5/1), we were greeted by lots of rolling tarpon. As is often the case, however, they had lockjaw. more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Looking for Tarpon Yesterday was my first tarpon charter this season. We cruised up the beach along Longboat key but never saw the first tarpon. I have been seeing some at first light in the passes but they soon disappear after sunrise. We cruis more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Frontal Assault This past month has been touch and go. The fishing season has been in full swing. Most guides have been running back to back trips. The weather this spring has been unsettled since mid-March. We have been scrappin’ it out ther more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Shell Point Bait and Tackle Fishing Report April turned out to be a funny month, leaving many professional fishermen shaking their heads in wonder. After a pretty good snook bite in March, a series of cold fronts in April slowed snook catching to more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Central Indian River Lagoon - Capt. Ron Bielefeld's Indian River Lagoon Report - Sebastian Area Fishing this past week or so has pick-up quite a bit. Trout have been very active during the dark moon phase early and late in the day. The larger females are now using he shallow more...
Capt. Ron Bielefeld - Indian River Lagoon

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - May is tops for fishing action on the Gulf If asked to choose one single descriptive utterance to characterize just how good the recreational fishing is out on the Gulf of Mexico during May, without hesitation the word that immediately come more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - It’s like summertime! The Dolphin (Mahi-mahi) are biting good! Quite a few decent size fish too. 20 to 45 lbs. We had 25 fish 2 days ago. Most were school size and a few were over 10 lbs. The fish were on a small weed line in 580 feet of water. more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Flamingo - Everglades National Park - Blame it on the Rain Fishing at Flamingo has improved for most species recently. Expect big and plenty trout action, redfish, and snook too. Tarpon action has slowed a bit but is only going to get better over the next few months. Expect to move more...
Capt. Ariel Cabrera - Flamingo

Stick Marsh & Farm 13 -   Sue DeLelys and her husband Dan are down here in the balmy south and decided to try their hand at the Marsh. We started the day with top water baits and ended with the same. Needed equipment: one top water bait and one rod e more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4/26/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey The fronts just keep on coming! Here we are nearly done with April, yet we are still seeing winter cold fronts make it down to Florida to wreck our weather. It was a week of tough tides, so more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound