Tampa Bay Fishing Reports

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Just big enough! The bite has been different every day, but I guess that is why they call it fishing. Some days it was more like catching an every day it was a different type of fish. This week I can’t say which fish we caught the most of. Believ more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Thunderstorms continued to dominate the angling scene on Southshore Tampa Bay through the first week of August, and not only in the afternoon. I awoke to the sound of thunder several times in the early morning. Water clarity has suffered with the more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - A challenge on the light tackle! Wow! We sure have had some warm weather over the past couple of weeks. We also had quite a bit of rain and that has helped cool it down a little. The water temp was up to around 88-91 degrees. 91 this year being t more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Water temperature in the Gulf of Mexico dropped to 87 degrees this past week with a two-day deluge of rain. This made for slow fishing up until Friday when the sun finally came out again. There are still plenty of mackerel around the Port Manatee more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Hi everyone, hope that you’re staying cool now that the heat has turned on, I’m trying to but it’s not easy this time of year. It doesn’t seem to have bothered the fish much though, even with the water temps on the flats getting into the low 90’s i more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Another day! Off with another great week of fishing. Most of the days are starting really early in the morning that way we're off the water before the sun gets too hot. The way I look at it if you start earlier in the morning and you are o more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Afternoon fishing this week continued to be a crapshoot with thunderstorms lurking in every direction. My fishing at the beginning of the week was confined to early morning. I had the boat in the water before daybreak on Monday, looking to head to Eg more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Afternoon fishing was a bit testy this week with thunderstorms cavorting around Southshore Tampa Bay. I tried several times to get out late in the afternoon to fish the strong falling tide for snook at the mouth of the Little Manatee River, but high more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Getting hot! Hot, hot, hot, But not too hot. The fishing bite is hot and the weather isn’t too hot. Most of the days we have been getting started early in the morning just after the sun comes up. This has helped because we are off the water befor more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - It's Right! The fishing and the weather have been great in the morning, but almost every afternoon we get rain showers, which tend to put a damper on fishing. Luckily, most of the rain showers last week only lasted for about 30 minutes. We had t more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay