Tampa Bay Fishing Reports

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Wind, rain, and mid day low tides made for difficult fishing this week, and traffic on the bay was minimal. Nevertheless, I put my boat in the water Tuesday and took a short bumpy ride to the sand bar in front of Mag’s Hole on – about a mile from the more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Trophy fish! The title of this should say it all. I can’t remember the last time I had a week of fishing quite like this past week. Big fish were on the prowl and there were lots of them. The wind didn’t give us much of a break the entire week more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - The fishing was a lot better than the weather early this week, but the anglers who braved the wind and the rain reported good catches. Capt. Danny Guarino told me he worked the mangrove shoreline behind Joe Island for redfish with some success on Thu more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Fall fishing is as good as it gets this time of year. With water temps continuing to drop and clarity improving the bite is on for numerous species. Snook fishermen have another five weeks before the season ends on December 01, and this is a good tim more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Memories made! The fishing is out of control and we’ve had great fun the past few weeks catching many fish. The list of fish we’ve been catching has grown a bit. We have started catching Tarpon, Grouper, and a few others. Not that we don’t usual more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - There was mostly good news for Southshore anglers this week. I ran into Capt. Mark Thomas as he picked up clients at Simmons Park and he told me he was catching big Spanish mackerel, trout, and redfish south of the Port Manatee Spoil Island on live b more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Hello fellow sportsmen, fall is in the air and we have finally had our first minor cool snap cooling us down just a little bit. The fishing has really been heating up inshore and offshore. Inshore the snook fishing is really fast action. Most of th more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Fall fishing on the Southshore is beginning to heat up as the water temperature begins to decline. Snook are already starting to pile into the Little Manatee River, and will continue their trek upriver as the days grow shorter. I’m seeing a lot of li more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Tarpon on! Man what a bite! If you can say it we have been catching it and then some! The fishing is really going off; it’s that time of the year when the fish eat like crazy before they starve themselves for the winter. It’s all been good even more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Fall Fishing! What a change in less than a week! The weather has changed quite a bit over the past week and winter is just around the corner. Fall is a great time of the year to fish and this past week was awesome. You name a fish and we hooked more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay