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

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Hello! Time for another fishing report. Now things have changed a bit with cooling water temperatures. The days have been beautiful, although cool in the morning, but warming perfectly by 10:00 am, making for some very pleasant fishing weather. Nig more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Southshore Tampa Bay Fishing Report What we don’t need is one more cold front like this one. There are redfish on the flats between Apollo Beach and Joe Island, and many are at and above the top of the 27-inch max. Getting at them has been the p more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - It is switch on, switch off fishing It is switch on, switch off fishing this time of year! If you have read a good report and then gone fishing, only to find out that you can’t lose bait that is the way it is this time of year. We have plen more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Sarasota and Venice - Sarasota & Charlotte Harbor, FL Fishing Report for 1/18 through 1/25/2004 Anglers on the Snook Fin-Addict had good action during the past week with trout and reds in Sarasota Bay and Charlotte Harbor. Anglers caught reds to 10 ½-lbs and trout to 4 more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Look for great gulf fishing action in February! The warm weather all of us experienced here along the Southwest coast of Florida this past January was definitely one of the mildest I can remember. Other than a couple of weak cold fronts that pas more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Sarasota and Venice - Southwest, FL Fishing Report for 1/10 through 1/18/2004 Anglers on the Snook Fin-Addict had good action during the past week. The best action was with snook at night on flies near Venice and trout in Charlotte Harbor. Reds and snook in shallow wat more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Southshore Tampa Bay Fishing Report Wind and cold weather has kept most of the local anglers off the water at Shell Point Bait and Tackle, but the diehards are catching some nice trout. Capt. Billy Nobles has been finding trout up to 18 inches on more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Passing Weather Fronts With the wind and passing fronts this week, I am left with little to say about fishing. I found trout over most of the bay on Thursday, but the larger, keeper size trout were closer to the shore line. Places like Otter Ke more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Sarasota and Venice - Southwest Florida Fishing Report for Jan. 4-10, 2004 Anglers on the Snook Fin-Addict had good action with reds, snook and trout during the past week. Negative low tides concentrated reds and trout in potholes and troughs. Fly fishing for snook at more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Southshore Tampa Bay Fishing Report Winter returned with a bite and 25 knots of wind yesterday, and that will shut things down for a few days. Coupled with the full moon on Tuesday, I expect the action on the Southshore of Tampa Bay to be less tha more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay