Tampa Bay Fishing Reports

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Ready for the challenge! I don’t know what the weather will bring the next couple of weeks, but I have a strong suspicion that it’s going to bring some cold spells. Unlike the weather, the fishing is just going to slightly change. Of course the more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Lots of wind and cooler weather kept most anglers off the water this week, and the forecast for the next few days is little better. Winter weather in January – go figure. I am seeing plenty of sheepshead around the mouth of the Little Manatee Rive more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - A return to warmer than usual weather made good things happen for fishermen on Tampa Bay’s Southshore this week. With light winds out of the east for much of the week, sight-fishing opportunities abounded between the mouth of the Alafia River and Joe more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Cold blast! The last cold front dropped the water temperature over 20 degrees and that changed things a bit, but not for long. The temperature went right back up to the upper 70’s last week and everyday since the water temperature has come up too more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - The New Year started with a severe cold front that brought high winds and lowered water temperature 12 degrees overnight. On Wednesday morning I took a walk along the banks of the Little Manatee River and saw some jack crevalle floundering about on t more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - A December to remember! December was even warmer than November this past year and the warmth in this winter month did things to fishing that many have never seen and might not see again in the future. I think the fishing is finally going to cha more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Outside of one serious cold front a week before Christmas, our Florida weather has been angler friendly. Of course, the better the weather, the poorer the fishing – but not quite. Water and air temperature both remain unseasonably warm, meaning snook more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Crazy weather! I don’t remember a November as warm as this past one, or a December like this neither. It’s still not very cold. Although the temperature did make it down to a cool 45 degrees once this winter, two days later it was back up to 80 d more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - The first major cold front of the season has come and gone, and it pushed water temperatures back into the 60s. That should send snook scurrying for deeper, warmer water, but I’m still finding a few on the flats. My buddy Gabe Krakowski of Brooklyn h more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - It doesn’t feel much like Christmas, but for local anglers that’s a good thing. Temperatures continue to reach highs in the 80s and water temps hover around 70 degrees – about 10 degrees above normal on both counts. Capt. Tom Rinehart of Apollo Bea more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay