Tampa Bay Fishing Reports

TAMPA BAY FISHING! - The Florida sun is blazing. It went straight from winter to summer, but after the brutally cold winter we had, I'm not complaining. Much like a fish, I'll take hot weather over cold weather any day. Lately, fishing has been great. It has produced more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Hot Offshore and Inshore - Hello from Anna Maria Island. It feels as if summer is coming early, things have finally warmed up around this place. You no longer need to wear long sleeves in the morning. It is t-shirt and shorts time around this here but it's not uncomfort more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Spinner sharks Tampa Bay - Sunday morning was odd with low hanging clouds and no sun. What wasn't odd was the amazing amount of scaled sardines at the Skyway Bridge. The tide was low enough for me to ease my Pathfinder Tower boat under the bridge. This spot was thick as thieve more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

Take a kid fishing - Friday's charter started at sunrise chumming white baits on a lush 4-5' grass flat. Loading up with scaled sardines 3-4 for both fishing and chumming and jumbo baits 5-6 for cut bait is essential. Chum chum and chum some more I did for 90 minutes! more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

St. Pete Bull Redfish! - We have been having good luck catching redfish on both sides of the Bay. However, we are landing more bruiser size redfish on the St. Pete side of the Skyway Bridge! The Redfish on the St. Pete side have mostly all been in the mid to up more...
Capt. Sean Hagen - Tampa Bay

Sight fishing tools - Seeing is believing on Tampa Bay's inshore waters and flats. Observe most any Professional Charter Captain and you will see they all have one thing in common. They are all wearing a quality pair of polarized sunglasses. We may argue about which brand more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

Redfish charters Tampa Bay - The Redfish bite on lower Tampa Bay is very perplexing to say the least. The last several weeks Captain Steven has been red hot, ok and slow. It's no secret we have several schools of large 30 plus redfish in lower Tampa Bay. You will also find seve more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

Redfish & Snook Chewing On South Shore! - Sarasota's skinny waters are holding large schools of redfish! Capt. Jermey Heimes of Day Away Charters and myself located several large schools of redfish on the flats south of Cortez. We fished 1-3 ft. of water on the more...
Capt. Sean Hagen - Tampa Bay

Snook Redfish Trout Grand Slam - Captain Steven was thrilled to participate in the Hooked on Education fishing tournament Friday. Fishing for snook redfish and trout on the flats of Tampa Bay while raising funds for a great cause doesn't get any better. We splashed the Pathfinder B more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

Fishing Florida TV - Thursday I had the pleasure of filming a new TV show Fishing Florida. Originally we were scheduled to film last month but Mother Nature made quick work of that. Bait was a challenge, the Skyway Bridge was very rough making tossing a cast net very dif more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay