Florida Fishing Reports

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 1-26-2002 by Capt. Butch Rickey I did three trips this week, and the pothole fishing for big trout was just fantastic. The first trip was with Brenda Alfrey, of San Carlos Park. It was her first BarHopp'R trip, and h more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon - We took a few flounder in our mix this week on 12-Fathom Xtract'R fished slowly on the bottom. Our targeted fish was trout but every now and again you would get that almost signature bite. Not much pull in the battle until you go to lift the flatty o more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Miami and Key Biscayne – offshore - South Current South current moved into the area north of the light where most of the sailfish action has been taking place the last week. It did slow the action though there were some fish seen late in the day. We had a couple of half day tri more...
Capt. Quinton Dieterle - Key Biscayne

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - The Weather and the Fishing are Great! On Monday January 14th, we had E-NE winds, the current was going North and the water was green. We heard the Sailfish bite was decent off the steeple. We started kite fishing in 130' of water and fishing more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - The running of the bulls!!! Bull redfish that is. Running in the barrier island passes off the Florida Panhandle's Forgotten Coast. For the obsessed winter angler who really likes to target giant fish, the Redfish is the fix. Depending upon your more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Miami - Haulover to Fowey Light - 1/27/02 Lack of blue water and a slow down in the North current should have kept the sailfish off the bite, but sailfish in Miami continue biting. Yesterday with flat calm conditions, we ended up with three sailfish, some red groupers off the bott more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - I?m sorry for the delay of the fishing report, I wanted to wait and see what this week would bring. I guess the big question I?ve been asking myself was how warm could the water possibly get. Could water on the flats approach 75 degree in January? more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Warmer weather has brought up our water temperature to 70 degrees on the Homosassa flats. Redfish are beginning to eat with tides slightly better than weeks before. Pompano are starting to bite early this year. Trout have been very plentiful. Ang more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Central Indian River Lagoon - Indian River Report - Sebastian Area With days in the 80s and nights in the 60s water temps remained warm this week. As a result, trout have been active most of the day in shallow water on and around flats and islands. However, low water levels more...
Capt. Ron Bielefeld - Indian River Lagoon

Key West Fishing Report - Offshore - With this latest stretch of mild weather, fishermen from all over have been able to get out in pursuit of their favorite quarry. The sea surface temperature along the reef has maintained a near constant 74 degrees and the last cold front left turbid more...
Capt. Ralph Delph - Key West