Tampa Bay Fishing Reports

Aways up for a challenge! - I always like a good challenge when it comes to fishing! Lately, that is just what I've had with a lot of wind and some cold weather. Believe it or not, a cold front came through the area this week and brought the water temperature down with it. T more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Snook Bite Remains Steady - I have been seeing some very big jack crevalle in the Little Manatee River this week. After fishing 3 days in a row with company and catching very little, I hooked five fish off my dock the afternoon after they left, but landed only one of them. The more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Big Redfish Moving in Tampa Bay! - Mother Nature is changing it up a bit! Last week, she brought a lot of rain and some wind, making it feel more like summertime. Over all, the fishing has been awesome. We've caught snook, redfish, tarpon, trout, and flounder. Although the fishing more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay's snook, redfish, trout and grouper action is red hot! - It's the beginning of April, and as every April I can remember, the fishing really couldn't be any better than it is right now. To say the fishing is hot is an understatement. I have had some days this week where we lost count after 80 snook and re more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Spring Time Action In Tampa Bay - Fishing along the south shore only continues to to get better with each passing day. The rise in water temperatures has kick started spring time feeding patterns. We have been catching snook and trout from the rive more...
Capt. Sean Hagen - Tampa Bay

April Begins Much Like March - I am hearing reports of Spanish mackerel from all points on the bay this week. Capt. Danny Guarino said he got cut off several times by mackerel inside Bishop Harbor, and I caught some small fish on the Bahia Beach Reef. Wind was up for most of th more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa bay water is starting to warm up! - Fishing is right on track for this time of the year. It has been awesome and it should just keep getting better. The weather last week was the best weather so far this spring. The wind finally calmed down a bit last week. I don't think it blew ov more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Spring has Sprung - The water temperature dropped a couple of degrees this week and that shut the morning snook bite down, but things picked up in the afternoon. Capt. Danny Guarino told me he fished Cockroach Bay early in the week and had trouble finding bait, and that more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Good Weather means Good Fishing In Tampa Bay - The winds have finally laid down and the bite has really picked up. Water temperatures are back on the rise and hopefully we have seen the last cold front of the year. The mack attack is back and the mackerel are getting more...
Capt. Sean Hagen - Tampa Bay

Blow Wind Blow - Wind and cold fronts continued to keep anglers on the docks and the fish safe. The good news is that the full moon of March is what the old timers here in West Central Florida call the end of winter. Not much to complain about this year. We had more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay