Florida Fishing Reports

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - High Pressure The front that passed through gave us a little peace and quiet. Then it did what a lot of fronts do when they come to Florida. It backed up over the lower portion of the peninsula and stalled. That left us with a mixture of gloomy, u more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Key West Fishing Report - Offshore - With the water temperature along the reef, over 81 degrees, most of the pelagic species have been hard to find, small dolphin being the exception. For a while we were getting some nice dolphin into the high 30’s, however now that the water offshore a more...
Capt. Ralph Delph - Key West

Miami and Key Biscayne – offshore - Soggy Condition, Well, last week I spent most likely the wettest week of my life. I was fishing on the Dr. J with Dr. Jack Kaplan in Harbor Island, a large Island in Eluthura. The fishing had been off and on and was off when I arrived. The weath more...
Capt. Quinton Dieterle - Key Biscayne

Fishing Report for Ft. Pierce, Florida - The inshore bite was great this last week with everyone reporting good catches of snook, trout, redfish, snapper and sheepshead. SNOOK - The snook bite was the best at the North Bridge at night and during the day the Turning Basin, South Jetty and more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce

Key West and Lower Keys - May a Tarpon Feast for Sharks While we have had a few good days during the past two weeks, May has been very difficult and the lousy weather has kept the Tarpon down. Let's hope that June will bring us fair southeast winds and sunny skies!When pre more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Marathon, Florida Keys - Offshore Dolphin Bite is On! Dolphin fishing off of Marathon and the middle Keys has been red hot lately with schoolie sized fish seeming everywhere! Some nice sized slammer Dolphin of 30+ lb. have been coming in on recent SE breezes and a few of more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon

Stick Marsh & Farm 13 - The water level on the Marsh has come up with the rain that we have been getting. We have seen about a 3-inch gain over the last week. However caution is still the name of the game out there. We have noticed some getting brave and running on the Mars more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Central Indian River Lagoon - Indian River Report-Sebastian The boat and fishing traffic brought on by the holiday weekend has caused the fishing on the Indian River to drop off a bit. Early mornings and late evenings have been producing some nice trout and a few redfish and more...
Capt. Ron Bielefeld - Indian River Lagoon

Miami - Haulover to Fowey Light - 5/27/01 WORLD RECORD! Before we start off with the story of a world record, let me state that fishing has been very good. We have caught sailfish on every charter this week. Dolphin fishing has been very good offshore as well as on the reef. B more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - Fishing has gotten into the summer pattern right on time with all the species cooperating nicely. While we are still getting limit snapper catches on some 4 hour trips most are producing a few fish under the limit . Lots of other species filling in t more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin