Sarasota Fishing Reports

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - It was a good day at Table Rock! The best fishing is still well offshore! We found plenty of gray snapper (mangrove), a few keeper scamp, large porgy and sheepshead. We also had plenty of nice size gag grouper around but had trouble putting more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Deep water OK It has been all about getting well offshore if you want some good action! Coastal and inshore fishing has been feeling the effects of a slow to leave Red-tide. Maybe this weekend's cold front will change things around. We had bee more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Snapper, Grouper and Cobia I have not been able to get out since last Monday and this was partially due to the weather. The Weatherman is calling for NE winds, 10-15 mph this weekend. If this comes to be, we will have flat water along the be more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Cobia come back! The Cobias are back and have been moving along the beach reefs. For the last few days the cobia action has been better than it has been in the last few years. We did well in eighteen feet of water using large live shrimp, bo more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Fish coming back Fishing is getting back to normal with plenty of new fish coming in to fill the void left by the Red Tide. Mangrove snapper have been plentiful around the 40' depths offshore. The artificial reef M3 has been a hot spot but you c more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Redtide fishing Bay fishing has improved over the past week. Most of the good fishing was on the East Side of the bay around Steven's Point. The grass flats held plenty of small sea trout and a few keepers with plenty of large ladyfish to ke more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Red tide may slow things down! The Red Tide has put a halt to most of our Bay fishing but that can change at any time, for better or worse. The best Bay action was for trout at Buttonwood Harbor marker and north along the grass flats. The NE more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Offshore Mackerel Offshore fishing for Spanish mackerel is still the best action. The artificial reefs (M) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 have consistently been alive with mackerel, little tunny, barracuda and sharks. In fact, half of the mackerel and tunny t more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Big Spanish Large Spanish mackerel have been the main action offshore in the forty to sixty foot depths. Pulling hardware or live bait has produced mackerel in the five pound class. You can also expect to lose a few to barracuda and sharks t more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Better days ahead I know it has been a while since my last report but with all the bad weather and slow fishing when we did make it out, I didn't have much to say. Unless you were running forty miles offshore, the bay fishing seemed to have a lo more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota