Florida Fishing Reports

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 1/27/2001 by Capt. Butch Rickey The fishing week began in typical fashion, with the approach of another cold front and windy, drizzly weather. Dennis McKeever, of Mt. Ephriam, New Jersey, and his sons Shawn and Ryan, wer more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Winter Pattern Greetings; Boy is sure is nice to leave the house and only need a light jacket again. Hopefully this warmer air temperature will start to warm the Gulf up a bit. This should improve the over all fishing scenario. Fish more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - The Sharks Are Here! There has been alot of shark action this week. In the last few days, we have caught a tiger shark and a few hammerhead sharks along with some blacktip sharks. Along with the sharks, there has been sailfish and cobia. One b more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon - The weather has been so beautiful this past week with temperature in the 60 to 70s. The fishing has been even better. The week was full of catching Mike Hughes and son Michael joined me for a half day on his 13th birthday and caught fifty-one reds. T more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Redfish, redfish, redfish, that is the name of the game now and the action is getting hotter. Everyday on the water we are running into more and more redfish. My partner Capt. Shawn and I have been able to locate several schools over the past coupl more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Round The Bend It seems that the warming trend is going to continue for at least the next week. Temperatures are supposed to stay in the mid seventies. The water temperature went past the sixty-degree mark this past week and despite some breezy da more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Miami - Haulover to Fowey Light - 1/29/01 The fishing last week started off with cold weather and good fishing. On Monday we fished in cold, windy, rainy, and foggy weather. The fog was so thick, that you could hardly see your kite and your kite baits. Even with all that, we got more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Fishing Report for Ft. Pierce, Florida - With all the cool weather the water is still way to cold to catch a lot of fish but if you take your time and fish the deep holes you could catch a few fish to go with your grits and hush puppies. Most of the fish being caught are sheephead, croaker more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce

Central Indian River Lagoon - Here fishy fishy fishy! This week on the Indian and Sebastian River was a mixed bag . Mother nature teased us for just 2 days with air temps in the 80s and water temps climbing to near 70. The trout turned on for one afternoon on the Indian Rive more...
Capt. Ron Bielefeld - Indian River Lagoon

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Sailfish Season! After a very busy Christmas and early January the charter business has slowed. Most of my bookings have been for April-June tarpon fishing trips. By the way, if you are interested in an April tarpon fishing trip call to reserv more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers