Florida Fishing Reports

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Where are the Sails??? Now that the cold fronts are coming through, the Sails have been scarce. We have managed to catch one here and one there, but not like we expect this time of year. Friday (12/13/02) we went out of Port Everglades. The wi more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - Biscayne Bay nights This past weekend we fished one night for baby tarpon. It was a bit slow. We jumped three fish from 20 to 30lbs. The water temps were surprisingly high, from 71 to almost 74 degrees. We never saw any shrimp moving at all, a more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 12/14/2002 by Capt. Butch Rickey Bad weather and a bad economy are combining to make the guide business a tough place to be lately, unless you have another job. That makes for short weeks and short fishing reports. This more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Boca Grande, Florida Fishing Report - Southwest Florida Fishing The fish are feeling the affects of cold temperatures and have moved to winter haunts. It can be a hard day of fishing to someone who as never fished in Florida after the water temps drop. First snook can become pretty ev more...
Capt. Andy Boyette - Boca Grande

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Winter time is here. Not to many folks around wanting to go fishing and not to many nice days to go anyway. It sure is a treat when it comes together though. Sunday before last I got to sight fish redfish over at Indian Pass. The wind wasn't blowin more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Stick Marsh & Farm 13 - Submitted by George, Imagination Bassin Guide Services Date Fished: 12/16/02 Water Temperature: 61 Water Clarity: 2-3 feet How many ways can you say WOW!? Dave Epema and Jim Belcher of Jefferson City, Mo. found over 80 ways to say it yesterda more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - Everglades Winter Mix Winter in the Everglades National Park    The annual transition to the winter pattern has come about .. finally.  The snook are smaller, the permit are fasting, the whitebait is hard to find, but the r more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound, Florida - From Capt. Terry Pitz Fishing Southwest Florida Welcome to Capt. Terry's FISHING REPORT: Dec. 16th, 2002 Redfish, The weather the last couple of weeks has given us cold front after cold front. The water temperature has dro more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - We had a great day on Sunday by just enjoying what was available. My angler, Rob, didn’t care about size or kind of fish as long as they fought well on the tackle we were using. We loaded the wells with pilchards and tried a couple drifts along th more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Winter Tactics Pick up and throw again”, I whispered. The water was as clear as pale tea. Bob gently snapped the fly out of the water and laid it back down in front of the sulking redfish. “Strip, strip, strip”, I said. It was like counting cadenc more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island