Tampa Bay Fishing Reports

Big Trout and Redfish are Best Bet - January delivered what is generally expected. As our coldest month of the year, fronts dependably arrived and squashed the fishing each time. One stretch produced 8 straight nights of temperatues into the forties. On the bright side, warming trends more...
Capt. Stewart Ames - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fly Fishing Report - January - January has been a great month to fish as long as the weather cooperates. The cold fronts have about a 3-5 day spacing and usually provide 1 or 2 good days following. The strong north wind along with our big low tides that come with a new/full moon more...
Capt. Ethan Kiburz - Tampa Bay

January Fishing Report Clearwater Beach - January Fishing has been good for trout, sheepshead, redfish, pompano, and black drum. Live shrimp and artificial jigs have been producing most of the result fishing around spoil islands and residential docks. If you are looking to some inshore fishi more...
Capt. Jared Simonetti - Tampa Bay

Trout Action Strong / Redfish scattered - Is it January or September? Last week, water temperatures reached 71 degrees in St Joseph's Sound. The large seatrout got confused and seemed to move off of their more predictable locations. Large seatrout fishing is generally an easy proposition more...
Capt. Stewart Ames - Tampa Bay

Happy New Year! - Cold fronts are here causing wind, rain, and what we hate the most - dirty water! In between fronts, the trout bite has really turned on with almost all of the trout being solid fish. Quarter once jigs with mirror lure little Johns worked slowly on more...
Capt. Dustin Hilliard - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fly Fishing Report - December - December has been the bearer of cold weather for us in the sunshine state. We have been greeted with some abnormally cold nights and some somewhat chilly days that have made the fish push back into their winter haunts. Around the moon phases we get more...
Capt. Ethan Kiburz - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay and Tarpon Springs Fishing Report - The warm new year has me changing up how I would normally fish this time of year. Thankfully, we are getting a cold front today and it should put the fish back in a winter pattern for the rest of the January and February. The trout fishing has bee more...
Capt. John Rivers - Tampa Bay

Cooler weather with a Strong Bite - This is a great time of year to fish! The fish are congregated together and staying warm. With winter around the corner, they are getting filled up before it hits! Snook will be stacked in the creek and river mouths. The trout will be in the cree more...
Capt. Trajan Rodriguez - Tampa Bay

Cooler Weater has the fish biting - Tampa Bay Fishing Report Rivers to Bay Fishing Charters - R2B Fishing with Capt. John Thanksgiving has come and gone; our bellies are full and it's time to burn some calories, but we're not going to the gym; we're going to hook into some cobia, bi more...
Capt. John Rivers - Tampa Bay

Redfishing Decent, Seatrout About to Show Up Strong - November proved to be wide open for kingfish within 2 miles off the beach. These fish provided great light tackle sport when targeted on 20 lbs spinning outfits. For fish in the 10 - 20 lbs class, this tackle could manage the fish. Fish upwards of more...
Capt. Stewart Ames - Tampa Bay