Tampa Bay Fishing Reports

Tampa Bay's redfishing at its best! - The weather has slowed us down a bit over the past couple of weeks, but despite having to dodge the summertime rainstorms, we've managed to get on the water everyday and catch fish. If the thunder and lightning got to bad, we just took a short lunch more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Doldrums Are Here - The summer doldrums are here, and local fishing suffers accordingly. Despite a few days of calm winds and plenty of sunshine, the fishing I did can only be described as mediocre. I have been across the bay twice this week to fish for pompano and tro more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay redfish are getting bigger! - Fishing has certainly changed over the last few years. I sure am lucky that I get to spend so much time on the water to see the changes. Fishing always changes a bit with each new year, but it has done a whole heck of a lot of changing this year. more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Summertime is Snapper time - Fishing around the full moon this week had it's ups and downs. The best tides were in the afternoon early in the week, but thunderstorms made them unavailable until Thursday. I went across the bay with Roger Mills and his son Chris to look for some p more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Summertime fishing in the bay! - It's summertime in Florida! We Floridians know what that means…the rainy season. One thing you can count on in the summertime in Florida is rain. Hey… at least it cools you off. Despite the rain, the fishing has been outstanding. This year has b more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Summer Staples - After a week of heavy afternoon thunderstorms, it finally dried up on Thursday. Keli Emery and I decided to fish for tripletail and cobia, but first we had to catch some bait. She told me she had found it the weekend before out in front of the Cockro more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

July, Last Month of the Tarpon Run - Hello, how is everyone doing these days? Great I hope, and staying cool. It's been pretty hot out there the past few weeks and that's one of the reasons I prefer to stay in the open water tarpon fishing. It's been good this week with tarpon staying more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Spotlight is redfish in Tampa Bay! - Spotlight is on redfish in Tampa Bay! Change is in Tampa Bay and it's for the better! Each fish has its time in the spotlight, and the tarpons' time is about up. But…move over tarpon because here come the redfish! Over the past few weeks the more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Slow Fishing in Hot Weather - Fairly nice weather this week led to mediocre inshore fishing on the south end of Tampa Bay. The afternoon bite was better, but not much. I fished for trout on Pinellas Point twice. The first trip began at 7:00 am and we fished a rising tide without more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Changes in Tampa Bay are underway! - Fishing has changed, but overall, it has remained awesome! Over the next few weeks it's going to continue to change bit by bit. I do know one thing for sure… in about two weeks the bait will be very plentiful! You will be able to find more bait th more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay