Regional Fishing Reports for:
Florida Keys and Florida Bay

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - The offshore fishing has been fair with the onset of the east winds. Some dolphin and blackfin tuna on the offshore humps.The reef in 50 to 90 feet of water is producing nice yellowtail snappers and grouper of the bottom. In the backcountry, the bi more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

Key Largo and The Upper Florida Keys - Spring/Summer fishing starts in the Keys The winds of spring have been blowing. Days are getting longer, the waters are warming up and the summer fish are starting to bite. Dolphin (Mahi-Mahi) are showing up offshore. Bigger dolphin are swimmin more...
Capt. Marc Blackburn - Key Largo

Marathon, Florida Keys - Tarpon Heating Up! Tarpon season is coming into full bloom and the fishing is busting loose this week. Big Tarpon are here now and have been biting the past few days (and nights) at the famous tarpon grounds at the 7 mile bridge and Bahia Honda br more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon

Key West and Lower Keys - Tarpon Season! April 10, 2007. Tarpon have been the main target species during the last few weeks. They have been migrating into the channels and basins when the water warms to the upper 70's and 80 degrees. The action above was shot in the Lower K more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami - 040307- I'm fishing with Alex and Max today, their flight left Boston a 5:30 a.m. and we were on the water at 1030 a.m.. This is becoming a yearly thing for Alex in his quest for Tarpon and this year is no different. Friday we fished around south more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Marathon, Florida Keys - Sailfish Bustin Loose! The past week has seen the Sailfish show up in grand fashion in the Marathon area with some boats posting double digit releases and seeing 30+ fish in a day. The days when the wind blows out of the east at about 15K or more, more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon

South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami - The fishing has been pretty good, the only variable is the wind. I normally can find some where out of the wind on the flats of Flamingo or Biscayne Bay, but I just fished the Miami Billfish Tournament for the last 3 days. The conditions were good fo more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Flamingo - Everglades National Park - High Winds?, head to Whitewater Bay! The past several weeks have had daily gusts of winds exceeding 15 knots. I had one cancellation due to this in Biscayne Bay but it has not kept me from fishing the backwaters. The sheltered shorelines have ha more...
Capt. Ariel Cabrera - Flamingo

Key West and Lower Keys - Permit Like Windy Conditions. March 26, 2007. Permit are the main course on the Key West flats these breezy March days! February and March have been very good for Permit fishing here in the Lower Keys, Key West and the Marquesas. In the above phot more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami - I just returned from the latest FLW Redfish tournament in Titusville. Its pretty cool to be fishing within sight of the space shuttle launch site. As things go pre-fishing was a success we had school after school of Redfish come at us. We felt confid more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo