Florida Fishing Reports

Miami - Haulover to Fowey Light - 05/04/03 The spring run of kingfish is still on, and the kings are BIG! Today we fished a half-day in the morning, and the action slowed down a bit, but we did get one whopper of a kingfish, a few smaller kings and a 15-pound grouper. The big kin more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Tuna & Tarpon Greetings, This week of great weather was tailor made for sight fishing. We spent three days out there with fly rods chasing little tunny's (false albacore) and blackfin tuna around. What a mind blowing time that is, they have amaz more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 5/3/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey Once again, weather put a damper on our fishing fun this week! Wednesday and Thursday were lost for most of us who believed the weathermen. The week began with John Cahill and his son Lee, more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

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