Florida Fishing Reports

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Variety is the spice of life and we must be spicy this week. Friday we fished live frigate bonitos on the down rigger and flat lines and got 5 nice king mackerel, 4 barracuda a 80 pound hammerhead shark and a false albacore. On the same trip we al more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Flamingo - Everglades National Park - Boy Battles Snook- Lady Lands Tarpon Fishing has been great! Action began when Eduardo (five years old) reeled up a black drum. His older brother, Jose (ten years) would battle and defeat a 26” snook that made an impressive photo. Then it was J more...
Capt. Ariel Cabrera - Flamingo

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Summer Snapper, Inshore During the summer, you can find plenty of keeper size snapper on the bay and larger snapper as you move offshore. Inshore snapper fishing usually peeks in September. You can find them around most structures and along more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Central Indian River Lagoon - Capt. Ron Bielefeld's Indian River Florida Report - Sebastian Area Well, the morning trout bite and late evening snook action has remained good over the past week or so. We have been catching trout from 12 inches to 5 lbs. Fish in the 3 lb range more...
Capt. Ron Bielefeld - Indian River Lagoon

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Swordfish! Last Saturday night (8/10/02) we went out Swordfishing. We set up in 1,500 feet of water off Dania. We put out 3 live Blue Runners. One at 100', one at 125' and one at 200'. We didn't have the baits out 5 minutes and the deep bait wa more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 8/17/2002 by Capt. Butch Rickey There were three trips to talk about this week. The fishing in the August heat has remained slow for me. Here’s how it went. Tuesday was my first trip with Ron Levy of Inter-tel, in Ft. more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - The Tarpon are about gone from Indian Pass and I'm back to beach launching off Grayton. I ran my 1st trip from S. Walton in 7 weeks yesterday and was amazed at how good bottom fishing was. Usually the dog days of August make for some tough fishin more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Jupiter & Palm Beach Offshore Saltwater Fishing Report - First Marlin! Sailfish stick around. The Sail King caught it's first marlin on July 25th. Estimated weight was 150-200lbs. Still not sure if is a white or blue marlin. Angler Kevin Lecoq did a great job keeping the pressure on using 30lbs. tes more...
Capt. Rob Mazzei - Jupiter

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Summer Winds Down Winds out of the east were stiff this past week. It was somewhat refreshing. However, stronger winds can pose a different kind of a challenge when it comes to catching fish. Bait is still pouring into the Marco and Ten Thousand I more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Fishing Report for Ft. Pierce, Florida - The inshore fishing for trout and snapper has remained steady this past week with most of the action going to the snapper. The snapper are still along the channel edges and the bite has been strong from morning until night. A live shrimp and a trol more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce