Tampa Bay Fishing Reports

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - It's starting! Here we go with a little bit of everything! We’ve got a bit of bay fishing and a bit of ruff off-water fishing to talk about. We also have some very nice weather to thank for some great days on the water. I will start with back w more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Early this week I fished Big Pass, just north of the Cockroach Bay entrance channel on a late morning minus low tide. I got off the boat and waded around the sand bar, throwing a soft plastic mullet on a jig head. I had one small redfish follow the b more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Winter returned after a week of wonderful weather, and pretty good fishing. Capt. Danny Guarino reported that snook fishing in the Little Manatee River was very good. He told me he caught scaled sardines at the Skyway Fishing Pier, and said that it w more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - One of the biggest! Burr! it has definitely decided to cool down a little. This is Florida come on now. Well spring is just around the corner. I’m ready for it,I don’t know about you. Well I have had a lot of phone calls setting up trips so you gu more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Winter is still in the air but I can’t complain too much, it feels like its going to make it into the 70’s today. I guess it’s a little better than sub-zero like they are having up north. It’s no wonder the birds migrate south for the winter and I ha more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Spring weather returned early this week, and despite some early morning fog on Friday, conditions were good. I fished with Gabe Krakowski on Thursday and Friday and despite a chilly ride to and from the flats south of Apollo Beach, we were warm en more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Wednesday was the day to fish this week. Light winds and slightly warmer temperatures made for a nice day on the water. The good weather preceded the re-opening of snook season by a day, but the drop in water temperature predictably shut the bite dow more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Something different! Well it has definitely cooled down. This is the winter weather that we have been looking for all year. Well that is just some of us I was all right with a warm winter. I can say one thing when the weather was warm it sure ha more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Winter finally caught up with us on Southshore Tampa Bay, and the fishing suffered. Ahead of the cold front last Monday, Tom White of Skipper’s Smokehouse and I went out to fish the flats south of Apollo Beach. With a late morning low tide, a brisk more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - More like it! Here we go this is how winter should be. Well it came really quick hopefully it won’t be this cold too long but it will get the winter fishing to how it should be. The water temp has dropped about 10 degrees. It’s around 58-62 degre more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay