Tampa Bay Fishing Reports

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - It’s that time of year guys, which direction do you go. Inshore, offshore, snook, redfish and cobia on the flats or kingfish, little tunny and grouper offshore. It’s all happing now and the action is fast which ever direction you pick. It’s really more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - The absence of scaled sardines on the southshore flats of Tampa Bay continues to perplex recreational anglers and guides alike. There has been some bait to be had at the normally reliable Skyway fishing piers, but even that source has been inconsist more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Its Tarpon time! Lets start this with a bang can you guess? Well that’s right it has finally warmed up enough where the bait has moved into the bay. So most of the locations that you usually catch bait this time of the year it is there. It is sti more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Its here! Well lets start this with a bang the fishing is going off. It has finally warmed up enough where the fishing is getting really good. The bait has started to show up in the bay. One good way to find the bait in the bay is to look for the more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Sheepshead bite continues to roll in deeper water The best sheepshead bite in years shows no signs of letting up, but the fish have moved. They spent all winter in the holes and passes of the mangrove backcountry south of the Little Manatee Rive more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Fishing with a fly! I will start with the Trout fishing we have had a few fish. But I can not say that we have been doing a lot of Trout fishing. Some of the other guides that I have talked to are catching a few but no one is killing them around more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Snook bite’s on, but where’s the bait? Snook fishing picked up a couple of notches this week, but the guides working out of Shell Point are still running 18 miles to net bait. On top of having to travel that far, the bait that they are netting i more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - The snook bite hasn’t happened yet, but it’s primed. Capt. Danny Guarino said he plenty of snook Wednesday while on a scouting excursion. He said big pods of small snook were staging in the backwaters of Little Cockroach Bay, and that there were im more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Its starting! Well here were go it has finally broke loose and the bait has started moving into the bay and the fish are moving to their spring time hang outs. The water temp is between 65-72 degrees and during the warmer times these fish hav more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Well it’s that time of year, spring is in the air and the fishing’s on! I know everyone waits every year for this report which I call the spring exploitation. The water temp has been creeping into the low 70’s on the flats and the hungry snook have more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay