Florida Fishing Reports

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Excellent light tackle action! As I am sitting down to write this report the strongest cold front of the fall is bearing down on us just in time for the weekend. It’s packing temperatures into the 50’s and winds 20-25 knots that will shut down more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - The fishing out of Flamingo remains pretty darn good. Yesterday, for the second trip in a row one of my anglers caught and released a grand slam.... The primary pattern is still, find the baitfish, and most of the predators will be somewhere nearb more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Start of Fall Kingfish Run Upon Us! If you haven't already heard it, you have now, the kingfish are returning. Friday we ran into a school of jumping Spanish Mackerels about 13 miles offshore on the Gulf. Looked like the ideal spot so we started more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Stick Marsh & Farm 13 - Date fished: 10/23/01 – Time fished: 7:30 – 2PM – Weather: Cloudy and warm – Surface temps: 78 degrees Baits used: Chug Bugs, Torpedoes, Frogs, Spinner baits, and Texas rigged soft plastics Areas fished: West end of the Stick Marsh from the NW c more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Miami, Florida - Offshore - Many of you have been asking what happened to my fishing reports. I am awaiting arrival of a new 31 ft. Contender with the new Yamaha four stroke 225 horsepower engines. This boat will be awesome. It will be loaded with the latest electronics, ma more...
Capt. Mark Houghtaling - Miami

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Stubborn Front A massive front passed over Florida this past week and then stalled. The front lingered into the next week. Despite periodic rain and gusty winds, guides and anglers that went out managed produce some great catches. Most anglers s more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon - Despite all the wind we have had this month we have been able to still catch some good fish. The Mosquito Lagoon has been wind swept leaving portions of it muddy. Finding fish has been easy after you find the clean water. Reds have been combing the f more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Miami and Key Biscayne – offshore - Weather Creating Havoc With winds in excess of 30 miles an hour and rains like I can’t remember in ages, just getting away from the dock has been an experience. I can’t remember a time when a whole week would go by and nobody would leave one o more...
Capt. Quinton Dieterle - Key Biscayne

Miami - Haulover to Fowey Light - The weather has certainly been on the wild side. Rainy and windy described most of the week, and few boats if any were fishing. My last trip was yesterday, and it was a bit interesting. I was to fish aboard a larger boat. After transferring a live more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Indian River Lagoon & Banana River - This week's report on the upper Indian River and Mosquito Lagoon from Spotted Tail, updated 10/22 Water levels in the lagoon system are still quite high, making sight fishing difficult unless you find clean water and good light. We've had a lot o more...
Capt. John Kumiski - Titusville