Regional Fishing Reports for:
West Florida (Englewood to Cedar Key)

Tampa Bay - South Shore - The New Year started with a severe cold front that brought high winds and lowered water temperature 12 degrees overnight. On Wednesday morning I took a walk along the banks of the Little Manatee River and saw some jack crevalle floundering about on t more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - A December to remember! December was even warmer than November this past year and the warmth in this winter month did things to fishing that many have never seen and might not see again in the future. I think the fishing is finally going to cha more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Cold weather should improve bottom fishing The first real cold front of the year blasted over the state last week. Generally when we experience a dramatic chill like this, the bottom fishing will do nothing but improve. Not to say that the group more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Sarasota and Venice - Capt. Rick Grassett’s Fishing Report for 12/26/07 through 1/7/08 Anglers fishing with me on the Snook Fin-Addict, out of CB’s Saltwater Outfitters on Siesta Key, had good action during the week from Christmas to New Years Day. Fly anglers caught a more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Tampa Bay, Tarpon Springs, Clearwater & St. Petersburg - Is it really the end of the year? Monday, December 31st, 2007   Jim couldn't have picked a better day in December to go fishing. The weather forecast predicted high temperatures in the low 80's and calm more...
Capt. Clay Eavenson - Tarpon Springs

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Outside of one serious cold front a week before Christmas, our Florida weather has been angler friendly. Of course, the better the weather, the poorer the fishing – but not quite. Water and air temperature both remain unseasonably warm, meaning snook more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Hernando Beach, Florida - Jan 2008 Gulf Grouper Report Gulf Grouper Deep Sea Fishing Report Jan 2008 One of the warmest winters in near history and the water temperature is in the low 70’s. After this cold front temperatures should go down a few degrees again to the more...
Capt. Rick Rodriguez - Hernando Beach

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Crazy weather! I don’t remember a November as warm as this past one, or a December like this neither. It’s still not very cold. Although the temperature did make it down to a cool 45 degrees once this winter, two days later it was back up to 80 d more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay, Tarpon Springs, Clearwater & St. Petersburg - It's Not How You Start... ...it's how you finish! The trout bite has been really good lately and the average size fish has been fairly large. With this in mind, and knowing that we had a negative low tide in the morning more...
Capt. Clay Eavenson - Tarpon Springs

Tampa Bay - South Shore - The first major cold front of the season has come and gone, and it pushed water temperatures back into the 60s. That should send snook scurrying for deeper, warmer water, but I’m still finding a few on the flats. My buddy Gabe Krakowski of Brooklyn h more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay