Tampa Bay Fishing Reports

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

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Local fishing was almost as hot as the air temperature last week, and that’s saying a lot. Capt. Larry Malinoski reported great catches of kingfish 20 miles out into the Gulf, with several smokers that topped 30 pounds. He caught Spanish mackerel and more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Something else! The weather, fishing, and wind gave us some action this past week. However, the fish have produced the most action out of the three. We’ve caught Snook, Red fish, Trout, Tarpon, and a bunch of other species. Most of the Trou more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Water clarity in the bay is excellent at present, but the surface is matted with great plots of algae. I was fishing in Mag’s Hole on an incoming tide last week and there was so much stuff floating through the pass that I couldn’t keep a line clear. more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Hammerhead! I have seen some things this year on the water that I thought I would never see. I’ve seen things that you have to see yourself to believe. If someone told me what I’m going to tell you, I don’t know if I would believe it. Snook ha more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Hello from Anna Maria, it’s July 2nd and nearly a dozen tarpon hooked up before 1 o’clock in the afternoon. We called it quits early, weary backs and sore biceps. That’s what happens when you’re sticking the hook into 100 pound class silver kings and more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - One week into summer the action on the Southshore was good. Capt. Nick Winger reported having a great day around the power plant in Apollo Beach where he caught two tarpon and a 60-pound cobia. I was there the following day and we caught a couple of more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay