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

Summertime is Snapper time - Fishing around the full moon this week had it's ups and downs. The best tides were in the afternoon early in the week, but thunderstorms made them unavailable until Thursday. I went across the bay with Roger Mills and his son Chris to look for some p more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Summertime fishing in the bay! - It's summertime in Florida! We Floridians know what that means…the rainy season. One thing you can count on in the summertime in Florida is rain. Hey… at least it cools you off. Despite the rain, the fishing has been outstanding. This year has b more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Gulf Grouper Fishing Report - Mangrove Snapper have dominated the Grouper lately. This summer has blessed us with two to three pound Mangrove's. Most are caught on the bottom while fishing for Grouper and some are caught on spinning tackle near the surface. Chumming with more...
Capt. Rick Rodriguez - Hernando Beach

Summer Staples - After a week of heavy afternoon thunderstorms, it finally dried up on Thursday. Keli Emery and I decided to fish for tripletail and cobia, but first we had to catch some bait. She told me she had found it the weekend before out in front of the Cockro more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Fishing on the Gulf is red hot! - What a great time for fishing on the Gulf of Mexico. Aboard the Legacy we've been catching all sorts of fish. Yesterday on a full day trip we limited out on red grouper as well as caught a nice mess of mangrove snapper. The folks requested a shar more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Capt. Rick Grassett's Fishing Report for 6/30 through 7/13/2008 - Anglers fishing with me on the Snook Fin-Addict, out of CB's Saltwater Outfitters on Siesta Key, continued to have action with tarpon on fly and spinning tackle over the past couple of weeks. In addition, fishing deep grass flats of Sarasota Bay has more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

July, Last Month of the Tarpon Run - Hello, how is everyone doing these days? Great I hope, and staying cool. It's been pretty hot out there the past few weeks and that's one of the reasons I prefer to stay in the open water tarpon fishing. It's been good this week with tarpon staying more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Spotlight is redfish in Tampa Bay! - Spotlight is on redfish in Tampa Bay! Change is in Tampa Bay and it's for the better! Each fish has its time in the spotlight, and the tarpons' time is about up. But…move over tarpon because here come the redfish! Over the past few weeks the more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Slow Fishing in Hot Weather - Fairly nice weather this week led to mediocre inshore fishing on the south end of Tampa Bay. The afternoon bite was better, but not much. I fished for trout on Pinellas Point twice. The first trip began at 7:00 am and we fished a rising tide without more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Bring the kids fishing........If you want to be humbled - For the past two weeks I've been booked solid, with 90% of my trips being parents and kids. The youngsters are ranging from 6-16 years old. On nearly every trip, I've seen the young anglers outcatching the rest of the boat. I watched as a 13 year old more...
Capt. Brandon Fraley - Clearwater