Regional Fishing Reports for:
Florida Keys and Florida Bay

Flamingo - Everglades National Park - Florida Bay and Whitewater Bay March to the hot fishing bite in the backwaters of the ‘Glades this spring. Fish are going to be hungry due to their pre and post spawn behavior and increased water temperatures. Although the beginning of March in more...
Capt. Ariel Cabrera - Flamingo

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - This report will cover the last two weeks since I fished every day from 8 February to the 20th without a break. During that time period we hopefully saw the last gasp of winter cold fronts... I actually saw some frost on the roadside coming into the more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Marathon, Florida Keys - Dolphin Showing Up! Yesterday the big event in the middle Keys was the Capt. Leon Shell memorial Sailfish tournament. The Sailfish were not cooperating too well, but the Dolphin (Mahi-Mahi) were. Capt Jason Long and the Best Bet team took home t more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon

Key West and Lower Keys - Permit Patrol FEBRUARY 18, 2005Permit are beginning to Patrol the waters of the Lower Keys in packs. They have been a bit spooky and moving fast, so hook-ups have been few and far betweenIn the meantime, we are hooking up with Bonefish on warm aft more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - Over the last couple of weeks the Sailfishing has been disappointing. The king Mack bite has also been on the slow side, and the fish you do catch are on the small side. A week ago their were some good tuna and WAHOO action in 400 feet of water trol more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

Flamingo - Everglades National Park - Whitewater Bay Fishing is Hot!!!!!!!! Fishing out of the park has been good with continued results in deeper water like East Cape and the Shark Rivers. Some folks I have talked to have reported some mackerel further offshore. Oyster Bay has also more...
Capt. Ariel Cabrera - Flamingo

Key West Fishing Report - Offshore - The water temperature has fluctuated from a high of 73 degrees to as low as 67 degrees offshore. With these extreme differences, the action has varied from very slow with most trolling boats working the edge of the reefs for mackerel and kingfish, to more...
Capt. Ralph Delph - Key West

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - There were lots of dramatic changes this week at Flamingo, most of them weather related. We had quite low water temperatures early last week, then a slow warming trend that ended last Sunday night when another strong cold front really dropped the th more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Marathon, Florida Keys - Sailfish Bite The local Sailfish action has been up and down lately depending on water and weather conditions. Off of Marathon this past week, a large area of dirty water was holding off the reef edge making the Sailfishing difficult. A few fish w more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - Over the past weeks, I been out almost everyday. And I can't remember a day when the wind hasn't been blowing hard. We been able to catch fish. on the not so windy days I been live baiting on the reef edge. We been catching sails and kings. On the wi more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada