Fishing Reports by Capt. Joe Ward

Fishing Report for Ft. Pierce, Florida - Well, snook season is open and plenty of anglers are trying their luck with some being very sucessful and others not. The start has been a good one with plenty of nice slot sized snook coming from places like Taylor Creek, the Turning Basin and arou more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce

Fishing Report for Ft. Pierce, Florida - Lots of fresh water still around the river making the water dirty but the river action has been steady. The trout are still feeding the best from daylight until about 9:00am. Topwater baits, pigfish and live shrimp have been working well to land th more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce

Fishing Report for Ft. Pierce, Florida - The trout bite has been steady with a lot of big trout being reported like the 10.5 pounder that James Casio from Oil City, Penn. caught while fishing the area around the Moorings. James used a live pigfish. Most of the trout reports were coming fr more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce

Fishing Report for Ft. Pierce, Florida - There has been a lot of trout reported this past week on the West side of the river around the Walton Road area and to the North in the river it has been at Harbor Branch and Round Island. Most of the trout were taken before 8am and the bigger ones more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce

Fishing Report for Ft. Pierce, Florida - The summer weather is here and so is the summer fishing. I had 4 charters last week with great catches on each one. We got our limit of trout to 7 pounds while fishing in places like The Moorings, Harbor Branch and Bear Point. The best bite was ju more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce

Fishing Report for Ft. Pierce, Florida - Inshore fishing this week was good up until Friday when the winds started to blow. We had good catches of snook, snapper, sheepshead, trout, tripletail, spanish mackerel and grouper. The snook are around the bridges at night on the out going tid more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce

Fishing Report for Ft. Pierce, Florida - The Indian River has been giving up plenty of fish this week starting with trout. Most of the fish have been in 2 to 4 feet of water and are taking live shrimp or greenies fished under a cork. They are also taking a rootbeer colored Cotee jig. Mos more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce

Fishing Report for Ft. Pierce, Florida - Most anglers have their attention on snook which have been slow but with the water temps coming up the bite should start anyday. There have been a few fish caught around the Turning Basin and the bridges at night on the outgoing tide. The only prob more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce

Fishing Report for Ft. Pierce, Florida - Inshore fishing for snook has not been red hot. Most of the snook that were caught were under sized and on the skinny side but there was a few nice sized one caught. I managed to get one that was 15 pounds but he was skinny. Try the Turning Basin more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce

Fishing Report for Ft. Pierce, Florida - The inshore fishing has been good if you are fishing for sheepshead, snapper, croakers and flounder. There has been a great flounder bite at the South Jetty and along the flats just south of the South Bridge. Use a live shrimp and a trol-rite hook. more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce