Florida Fishing Reports

Snook & Trout Hungry, Tarpon & Kingfish Almost Here - From New Port Richey to St. Petersburg, Spring is here and bait is everywhere. With water temperatures rising into the 70's, it's telling the fish it's time to eat. The Snook bite has been great with them coming out in droves from their winter Ta more...
Capt. Dustin Hilliard - Tampa Bay

Offshore/Inshore Fishing Report Update - Miami/Miami Beach - Let's start this report with the offshore action in Miami/Miami Beach. The most consistent fishing still remains plenty of action with kingfish. Throw in an AJ or sailfish or blackfin tuna to round things out. When the wind has blown from the east more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Warmer Weather Brings Fantastic Fishing to Estero Bay - It was a great week to be on the water! Snook, redfish, trout, cobia, tripletail, permit, mackerel, and even tarpon got in the mix this week. With great conditions it was hard to decide what to do. When there was no wind, we fished the nearshore wrec more...
Capt. Greg Stamper - Estero Bay

Charlotte Harbor / Pine Island Sound Fishing Report March 15th - Bait in the Area: Scaled sardines, pinfish, shrimp, crabs, ladyfish and some threadfin herring. Fishing Tactics: Start the day around the oyster beds and the cuts. As the tide rises and the sun comes up move to the mangroves and creek mouths. more...
Capt. Dave Pecci - Charlotte Harbor

Spring Break Fishing is Heating Up in Panama City, Florida - The weather and the fishing have both heated up this week. Inshore the Sheepshead bite is about as hot as it can get! Just because they are easy to catch this time of year does not mean you should take your limit. Only take what you plan to eat. more...
Capt. Todd Jones - Panama City

Grouper, Snapper, Porgies, Drum, Sheepshead - Monday, 3/2/15, I headed offshore in calm seas—what a treat that was, after a couple of battling or surrendering to windy, rough conditions. Long-time customers, Jim McGrath and Bill Crockett had a good morning of fishing 22 to 25 miles west of New P more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach

Everglades Backcountry Fishing at its best - It has been an outstanding week of fishing in Key Largo and the backcountry of the Everglades. We started our week with an afternoon trip to check out the Tarpon bite. We had a solid bite but unfortunately all six of our bites resulted in missed ho more...
Capt. Jeremy Mathis - Key Largo

South Florida Spring Fising - In the Miami section of south Florida we can expect the bonefish to start moving back to the shallows. Always be on the lookout for stingrays and mudding water just off the flats. Sometimes this can be a difficult scenario to read but look closely more...
Capt. Ariel Cabrera - Flamingo

March Tampa, Clearwater and St. Petersburg Fishing - So the fish decided overnight to bite on whitebait instead of shrimp! Guess what! Use whitebait, dead bait and shrimp! Redfish, Trout, Redfish, Pompano, Permit, Snapper, Sheepshead, Trout, Tarpon, Jack Crevalle, Snook.... Snook... SNOOOK!!! Say i more...
Capt. David Beede - Tampa Bay

Big Snook and Redfish Make Anglers Happy - We are enjoying the continuation of the spring warm up with water temperatures now reaching 80 degrees. Snook are showing up all over the backwaters and are staging along the mangrove shorlines as well as near the passes now. Live sardines have more...
Capt. Todd Geroy - Naples