Florida Fishing Reports

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 10/26/2002 by Capt. Butch Rickey There are three trips to report on this week. The fishing was great for most of it. First up on Monday was Bryan Thomas and his friend, of Clinton, Pennsylvania. Bryan and I had a grea more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Key West and Lower Keys - Cool Down Improves Fishing October 28, 2002Our next cold front is on its way and by weeks end we will have temps in the low 70's or high 60's at night and in the high 70's or low 80's during the day. This is good news to local anglers who have had more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Right on Cue! As expected the fishing exploded this month. It is a little known fact that October is probably the best fishing month in the 10,000 Islands. We have been having a blast catching good numbers of tarpon, snook, redfish, king mackerel, more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marathon, Florida Keys - Sailfish Showing up! Sailfish season is creeping up on the Florida Keys with November usually being the kickoff month for some hot action off of Marathon. Some good catches of Sails have already been reported in the past two weeks with some double more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Kingfish & Swordfish The Kingfish have been thick one day and disappear the next day. We limited out last Monday 10/21/02 trolling planers with spoons and strips in 80' to 200' of water. We couldn't get any big ones on live bait. Go figure! The more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Miami - Haulover to Fowey Light - Double D Charters 10/27/02 Fishing during the day has slowed down a bit. There have been quite a few dolphin on the edge. Most dolphin have been between 5 – 10 pounds with an occasional 20 pounder thrown in. Kingfish have been hit or miss. Yo more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Miami, Florida - Offshore - This past week we had calm winds which didn’t help fishing any. Lots of kingfish are starting to show up from Ocean Reef in north Key Largo to Haulover Cut. Anglers are catching them using live baits slowtrolled on the downrigger and trolling deep ri more...
Capt. Mark Houghtaling - Miami

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - Brown Marlin Season!! October is in full swing with lots of redfish along the shorelines and oyster bars.  A tipped jig seems the be the best bait now, as the water is turbid.  The rains have all but gone and the glades are nearing the more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Fish close for Kings! The Kings are still running along the beaches. That does not mean that they are not running offshore as well. Why run over fish to catch fish? The action seems to drop off about 9:00 AM but you can still pick a fish here a more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Central Indian River Lagoon - Capt. Ron Bielefeld's Indian River Report - Sebastian Area Well, the heat is back on here in south Florida. After a brief cool down the temps have been in the upper 80s to near 90 degrees and the water temps have risen into the low to mid 80s. T more...
Capt. Ron Bielefeld - Indian River Lagoon