Florida Fishing Reports

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Winter Fishing Brings Snappers Greetings; To start I want by thanking all the readers and charters that made 2000 my best year ever. I had a blast smoking reels and drags on big poons, permit, cudas, and kings all spring and summer with you. Som more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Warming Trend It looks as if we are going to have a warming trend this week. Temperatures will climb to the seventies and may even reach the eighties during the next week. If there is a period of warming for a week or so, it will make a tremendous more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Saltwater Fishing Report - The weather has been all but dependable. We went through the longest stretch of cold weather that I can remember in the 20 years I've been here. This is making the fishing very unpredictable. I get calls everyday asking how the fishing has been la more...
Capt. Andy Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Concentrate On The Bottom For Fish Over the next few weeks fishing activity offshore on the Gulf will be geared toward bottom fishing. With water temperatures in the mid-50's most mid-water type fishes should be well south of us by now. This is more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Sails & Dolphin The Sails turned on so good last week that this is the first chance I've had to update this report. One boat caught 15 sails in one day last week. We were averaging 2 to 4 shots at the sails a day. One fish we caught was 80 lb more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Miami, Florida - Offshore - Recent attention has been brought to the hot fishing around the “patch” reefs. Anglers as well as divers have been seeing a large amount of bigger Mutton snapper showing up on the reefs. This is a common occurrence this time of the year, and if yo more...
Capt. Mark Houghtaling - Miami

Miami - Haulover to Fowey Light - The fishing off of Miami remains real good. The blue water has moved in and there is North current to boot. The kingfish bite by Fowey has been very good, although most fish are on the smaller side, but not small enough to throw back. Average we more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Central Indian River Lagoon - The Warmth Has Returned! This week on the Lagoons was again a test of will to a certain extent. The beginning of the week was windy and only a little warmer. Consequently, fish and fishing in the Sebastian area have been slow to recover. Warmer more...
Capt. Ron Bielefeld - Indian River Lagoon

Marathon, Florida Keys - Dolphin & Sailfish on the Rip! Every once in a while a good condition for catching offshore fish moves into our area in close to the reef. The gulfstream current that moves along the Keys sometimes throws eddies in towards the islands and a more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon

Indian River Lagoon & Banana River - This week's report on the upper Indian River and Mosquito Lagoon from Spotted Tail, updated 1/13 We haven't seen this much cold weather in central Florida in a long time. I actually had icicles hanging from my gutters. It helped the manatee more...
Capt. John Kumiski - Titusville