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

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Summer Time Fishing Both inshore and offshore fishing has been good to excellent but with plenty of stops and starts. Mangrove snapper are being caught on the bay and in the Gulf out to the sixty-foot depths. The Gully area has produced more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Southshore Tampa Bay Fishing Report from Shell Point Bait and Tackle Fishing was tough the past three weeks due to heavy rains followed by a long stretch of hot weather. But things have started to turn around. Capt. Chet Jennings of Balm scored more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Yale Professor, 74 Lands Big Tarpon on the Fly Rod Michael Coe, a former Yale professor, caught his second largest tarpon ever off the coast of Homosassa with Capt. Mike Locklear on board his Hells Bay 18 foot Marquesas flats boat. We had plent more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Coe Lands a Large Homosassa Tarpon For Mike Coe, a 74 year old Yale Professor, things could not be better. Well almost ļ Coe successfully caught his first redfish on the fly rod. Catching redfish on the fly has not proved to be an easy task o more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Tarpon Return After Rains Today, Mike Coe and I saw quite a few strings of tarpon heading north. That usually means that we will be getting fresh tarpon schools every day coming up the coast for a couple more weeks. It is the expert’s opinion t more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Summertime is grouper time offshore on the gulf More than likely by the time you read this report West Florida residents will have finally gotten a reprieve from all the precipitation that was steadily pumping ashore off the gulf most of la more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - More Homosassa Tarpon News The last week of May is usually the best week to try tarpon. Not always true though as we found the schools of the big silver king to be elusive. West winds did not help. Rhett and Cole Clarkson, Michael Schmitt, D more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Tarpon, tarpon, and more tarpon. That seems to be the only thing I fish for this time of year. Since May, June, and July are the very best months to catch tarpon I guess it makes sense that the night before when I ask, “what do you want to fish for” more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Hot weather Brings in Tarpon No doubt there were some really big tarpon here in May as a world record was verified by the International Game Fish Association. Tom Evans guided by Capt. Al Dopiark landed a 190.5 pound tarpon in 30 minutes using a more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Southshore Tampa Bay Fishing Report Fishing on the Southshore of Tampa Bay has been productive, despite some inclement weather. Capt. Nick Winger and Capt. Chet Jennings continue to hook tarpon inside the bay and the fish have been running around more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay