Fishing Reports by Capt. Matt Ercoli

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Hello fellow fisherman, I Hope everyone is having a productive summer out on the water. The fishing has been very good. We’ve had more snook than anything else, and some of the largest my boat has taken all year. Last week our largest was 38 inches more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - There are Tarpon, Tarpon and more Tarpon. The southern migration has been a little later this year due to cold water temps, but they are thick as thieves out there now. Up until then I was stuck fishing the resident fish out of Tampa Bay. Last week more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Hello fellow fisherman, how have you been? Fishing and the weather couldn’t be better around here. Almost everything is going off around here. Snook are peek on the flats right now. As usual a lot of fish are in the 22 to 25 inch class but we are more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Hello fellow fishermen, sorry for the delay in my fishing report. We just can't seem to get rid of these cold fronts. It's not like we are in a deep freeze or anything, we just can't seem to get enough sun long enough to warm up the flats. All it w more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Hello fellow fisherman! I hope you had a happy holiday season and that 2005 brings good luck for all of us. Spring is right around the corner and before you know it tarpon will soon follow. So far this winter has been my best ever as far as fishing more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Well things have changed around here quite a bit. The last couple of cold fronts have put us into full winter fishing conditions. This has not been a bad thing for my charters though. The fishing remains very good as I follow them into their backco more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Hello everyone, our fall fishing temperature has yet to settle-in. I’m not complaining though, cool mornings climbing to just warm enough to break a sweat if the wind isn’t blowing is the time to be on the water. Flats fishing is so good I’m spendin more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Coming up on the end of the month and time for a new fishing report. I have to say the weather couldn’t be nicer. We have been so fortunate here on Anna Maria that none of the four hurricanes have caused us any problems here this year, and that ever more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - How is everyone out there on the fishing scene? First I would like to say thank you to those of you that called and emailed to see how I weathered the storm. It’s nice to know that you where thinking of me. Everything is fine here in Tampa Bay and more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - I know it’s been awhile but my time is limited. The fishing is as hot as the weather right now. It seems that the tarpon migration has been winding down but resident tarpon have been picking up the slack. Most of my tarpon fishing has been early m more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay