Tampa Bay Fishing Reports

Bonita In The Morning Tarpon In The Afteroon. - The entire bay is teaming with bait! Large schools of threadfins are blanketing the water's surface. A welcomed an irresistible temptation to hungry pelagics and dive bombing birds, but what does this mean to the angler? Wel more...
Capt. Sean Hagen - Tampa Bay

Calm Days Ahead -- Probably in July - The wind continued to blow throughout much of the month making it very tough to get out in anything but an offshore boat. Every year the winds of March seem to extend deeper into spring, and blow a little harder. I guess we will have a dead flat cal more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tarpon fishing Boca Gand! - The fish are beginning to get back to normal now that the full moon is over. At times, fishing around a full moon is tough because the fish do a lot of feeding at night instead of the day. Mostly, we only had trouble with a few of the fish due to t more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Wind and Rain finally Subside - Tough weather conditions kept most anglers off the water much of this week. The wind blew Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and it was interspersed with rain, and we are scheduled for yet another cold front – at the end of May no less. It finally calme more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

It Only Gets Better In June. - Despite afternoon showers the bite has remained steady. The reds and snook have stayed true to the shallow flats while the trout seem to be seeking sightly deeper water. All an all The fishing in Tampa Bay has been excellent this May.Exspect more...
Capt. Sean Hagen - Tampa Bay

Big fish on in Tampa bay! - Plenty of fish are around, and if the time is right, they will almost jump in the boat! Fishing has been great over the past week, whether it's been for tarpon, snook, redfish, trout, grouper, sharks, or others. However, the weather hasn't been as more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Wind and Cold Fronts in May? - The wind finally died down to manageable mid week, and the fishing was pretty good. I had my canoe out early one morning in front of Sand Key, just south of the Little Manatee River and I saw quite a few snook and redfish, but they didn't want anythi more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa bay waters are not to rough! - Wrap your mind around this visual… a 100 lb to 150 lb fish being chased by a shark that is over 8 ft long. For us, it is not just a visual in our mind. It is a real situation that we've been dealing with frequently the past few weeks. Unfortunate more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Kingfish - The winds were down earlier this week, but the tides were slow, and so was fishing on Southshore Tampa Bay by most accounts. Capt. Tom Rinehart of Apollo Beach reported finding some kingfish well inside the bay. He said he saw some bait skipping out more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tarpon Migration Turning On - Hello from Anna Maria. Well things are starting to look a lot better around here. The tarpon migration finally showed up after being about two weeks late. This was because of two late unseasonable cold fronts that blasted in, one a month ago and a a more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay