Florida Fishing Reports

Fort Myers Fishing Report - The Summer Bite Is About To Explode - After weeks of wind and abnormal cold fronts it looks like the week of May 15th could be the turning point. If the wind lays down and the water on the flats and in the Gulf clears up the bite will be epic. The erratic weather of the last month has bo more...
Capt. Eric Anderson - Fort Myers

Fishing Hard - Offshore fishing continues to be decent. But the late cold fronts (one passed through today) aren't helping our transition to spring and early summertime fishing. Traditionally we have extremely calm waters and excellent fishing both for Pelagics lik more...
Capt. Nick Cremasco - Stuart

First Timer Luck - We got a call from Chris - he wanted to come to Miami for the weekend just to go deep sea fishing for the first time. We found out it was his birthday weekend, so we surprised him with a chocolate chip cookie cake! The ocean was calm and no c more...
Capt. John Barker - Miami

Spring is here, so is wind! - The last few weeks the wind has continued to blow in from 15 to 30 mph and it has made fishing difficult. The fact is I have been fishing and producing some decent hook ups and catches. The last week or so I have fished both Flamingo and locally in a more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Slow Morning, Awesome Afternoon Fishing in Fort Lauderdale - We had a great day of dolphin fishing on our sportfishing boat. The morning trip was really slow. We caught just a few bonitos and small blackfin tunas. It was a different story on our afternoon run. We went right back out on the afternoon trip more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

New Smyrna Beach Mosquito Lagoon Daytona Backwaters - Early summer fishing patterns are emerging in the Indian River and Mosquito Lagoon here in East Central Florida with water temperatures in the mid to upper 70's, over the last few weeks of spring a migratory group of jumbo chopper Bluefish passed by more...
Capt. Michael Savedow - Daytona Beach

Freshwater Scene For May - May is here and this means the start of the summer heat and tougher conditions for you intrepid bass anglers out there. Not impossible but certainly a little more difficult. Long days of catching fish are going to have to be shortened to early morn more...
Capt. Roan zumFelde - Naples

Fearless Fishing Report for May 3 (#Islamorada, FL): - Today we fished a full day and we headed #Offshore. Some Blackfin #Tuna were biting well on the #Hump to start. We then looked around for some #Mahi and ended up finding a lot, but they were not biting as well as they could be. We worked at it and en more...
Capt. Joe Hendrix - Islamorada

The reefs are hot - I took 5 guys out to the snapper hole the other day. Seas were flat in the morning sea surface temperature was just over 75 degrees there was a strong current requiring us to increase the amount of lead to 6 and 8 ounces. My Minkota I-Pilot was worki more...
Capt. Mark Rosen - Port St. Lucie

Estero Bay Report - The ever changing weather has made fishing tough for anglers in and around Estero Bay, but when the winds lay down there are plenty of opportunities. There are redfish to be caught around the oyster bars and mangrove islands on good moving water. Cu more...
Capt. Jon Fetter - Estero Bay