Tampa Bay Fishing Reports

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Schools of big jack crevalles continued to ravage baitfish and mullet around the mouth of the Little Manatee River last week. The fish had foot long mullet leaping onshore to escape the frenzy. That’s about all the action we had this week because it more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Spring is in the air and in the water with water temps creeping into the low 70’s. The shallow water flat’s fishing has exploded this past week. Last week we had a tremendous time fishing Lots of snook, big snook; and lots of redfish, big redfish wi more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Light winds, warm temperatures and sunny skies made for good fishing early in the week. The inshore bite was fairly slow on the best days – short and sweet – but some good fish were caught. Capt. Danny Guarino reported catching 5 keeper snook in five more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Fish on!!! What a change in more than just the weather. The fishing has changed big time there are a lot of fish moving out of the rivers this time of the year. We have days where they don’t want to eat right away. But over all I mu more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - The wind died down early this week, but the after effects of the last cold front have not subsided. Fishing guides working Southshore Tampa Bay reported that the action was generally slow. The good news is that there is bait in the bay, and more c more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Here we Go! Here we go! It’s finally warming back up and it’s doing so quickly. It is a good thing because we can now get back into spring fishing with the Snook, Red fish and other species. We did manage to get a few days of Speepshead fish more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Winter weather subsided early this week. Light winds and clear skies made for some great sight fishing on the Southshore Tampa Bay flats. Tom White and I saw as many redfish as I have ever seen on the flats south of Apollo Beach, but the bite prove more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

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