Regional Fishing Reports for:
Florida Keys and Florida Bay

Winter Fishing in Key West a Blessing! - The Fishing Report. Jan. 2, 2009. Happy New Year!!! Let's catch more fish!!!! We have had a warmer trend recently and the Permit and Bonefish have turned on as a result. Here is a 7 pound New Year's Day Bonefish caught by Dave. We found more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Marathon Sailfish Bite Hot! - The sailfish off of Marathon and the middle Keys are finding the shallow reef to their liking lately. The local charter fleet has been finding the sailfish sneaking up onto the reef to feed on unsuspecting schools of ballyhoo that have been blanketin more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon

The Bottom is Best - Water temperatures continue to hover in the low 70's along the reef line, stimulating good reef action for big CIRO MACKEREL, however a large pocket of still water has formed from south of the Dry Tortugas to well east of American Shoals and from the more...
Capt. Ralph Delph - Key West

Winter Bonefish in the Lower Florida Keys - Air temps have been in the eighties these past two weeks and it has done great things for Bonefish here in the Lower Florida Keys. Dec 26th, 2008 - John and his two sons Josh and Joe of North Carolina, were aboard with me for charter. The day starte more...
Capt. Luke Kelly - Key West

End of 2008 - 122608 I am with Sam Rose today he is a regular customer, he brought Mike, Max and Steve and we are fishing South Biscayne Bay. We are having to deal with 20-25 mph Easterly winds and there is really no where to hide. I decided to fish the finger ch more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Flamingo, Back to Front! - This past Sunday I hit up Flamingo first starting out in the back where we headed deep into Hells Bay. We found lots of Redfish cruising along the mangrove shorelines and pushing on the shallow mud flats. After making just a few casts, Grant found hi more...
Capt. Joe Costadura - Flamingo

Everglades Holiday - This week could easily be another page in a Capt. Wejebe Vida Del Mar manual, as we certainly took the road less traveled. I had three trips into the beautiful Everglades National Park and fished entirely different water during each. Most who h more...
Capt. Benny Blanco - Flamingo

12/20/08 Flamingo-Florida Bay- Slick Calm Sick Bite! - This week we have had a break from the wind, unlike last week. My plan for saturday was to run to some new areas that had shallow flats with deep channels cutting through, shallow mangrove shorelines and flats with deep pockets. We started off with o more...
Capt. Steven Tejera - Flamingo

Fishing report, Everglades backcountry - This past week I only had two days on the water. It's the time of year when a lot of folks are concentrating on the upcoming holiday, after Christmas I'm booked almost every day... I'm spending more time in the shop, with a half dozen rods and a fe more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Happy Holidays! - Dec. 20, 2008 Baby Tarpon, Bonefish and Permit are available when the water warms in between cold fronts through this holiday season and into January. Here is a December baby Tarpon. The cooler weather (average lows in the 60's, average highs more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West