Regional Fishing Reports for:
Florida Keys and Florida Bay

Flamingo in the Spring - I had an interesting day on the water with angler Rodger. We were fishing Florida Bay in a deep channel with flats on both sides and we were casting 1/4 ounce Hook Up lures tipped with four inch Gulp shrimp. Not much ation was taking place along the more...
Capt. Alan Sherman - Flamingo

Flamingo backcountry is redhot - The winds should start to dwindle soon it's been steady at 20 mph for months. When the winds come down the Tarpon will definitely get into the normal spring time pattern instead of being out in the Gulf. The Snook fishing in Florida Bay has been disa more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

As the weather changes, so does the fishing - My gosh! Frontal systems in May, 30 knot north winds, 76 degree water on the flats, major algae blooms. What in the world is going on? Off shore, the Gulfstream remains well to the south. Although the water color looks great the sailfishing remains f more...
Capt. Ralph Delph - Key West

Tarpon Bite HOT! - The Tarpon have moved into the middle Keys in good numbers and nice sized fish are abundant at all middle Keys locations. The 7 mile bridge where I fish most of the time has been great in the mornings on the incoming tide lately with the big Tarpon b more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon

Slow bite after full moon - 042508 Today I am involved in a 2 boat trip, early on I have Andrew, Cane and John and they caught plenty of Trout, Jacks and Ladyfish. Andrew and Cane had in important meeting to get to so they cut it short. In the afternoon Rick and Rob took the more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Flamingo Fishing at it's Best! - It's been one trip after another for the last 10 days or so and finally I can sit down and catch up on my fishing reports. I had a lot of trips in Flamingo this past week and got to fish about every weather condition that you might see in the course more...
Capt. Alan Sherman - Flamingo

Tarpon are here.... - Over the past couple the weeks the tarpon have show up. We been catching them back in the Everglades Park as well in the bride channel. However they do not bite with a North wind. We did a couple of shark fishing trips; with lemons and blacktips more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

Tarpon are here! - 041908 Richard was my first regular customer when I started guiding in 2000 we probably fished 8 times that year. I haven't heard from until this past week, Richard always brought his grandsons and this time it was no different, he brought more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Fishing report, Everglades backcountry, 5- 20 April - Now for a long overdue fishing report... It covers the period from 5 April to 19 April. The first half of this two week period could be summarized by saying tarpon, tarpon, tarpon.... This time of year the tarpon fishing is either red hot or non more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

World Sailfish - Hey Sailfishermen... I am here at the world sailfish championships in Key West. Today is the off day of the three day tournament and after 2 days the fishing has been great! The first day over 230 fish were caught and released. Day 2 was not much dif more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon