Fishing Reports by Capt. Matt Ercoli

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Hello fellow fisherman! Hope you?re enjoying your summer. It?s been pretty hot lately but compared to the weather they?re having up north lately we should be feeling pretty lucky down here in the sunshine state. I thought the idea was Florida in th more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Hello fellow fisherman, sorry again for the delayed fishing report. I?m in the middle of prime tarpon season and it?s hard to find time to keep up with everything. It?s definitely my most physically demanding time of the year. Early morning starts more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Sorry for the delay everyone! Today was a very typical June day, we spent the day sight fishing for tarpon. We jumped three, fought two for over an hour each and managed to boat one, well that?s tarpon fishing. The first 15 minutes of the highflying more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - This May has turned out to be one heck of a month for fishing. Inshore and offshore, equally so. It seems that each day as I leave the dock I must fight the same mental battle over and over. Should we head inshore or offshore? Now it?s especially more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Wow! Lots have happened since my last fishing report. The period between this and my last fishing report has been the best action since the beginning of our spring fishing. Last week giant kingfish, this week some of the fastest snook fishing you ca more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Pretty much if it swims in our waters we are catching it right now, tarpon, snook, cobia, permit, redfish, trout, kingfish, little tunny, black tip sharks, Spanish mackerel and I?m sure I have left out a few. Redfishing has really taken off, I?v more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - I can?t believe it?s already April, where did March go to? It was an awesome month and I would have to say we closed it off with a bang and opened April with an even bigger one. Here is a description of the past few days. At 7:30 we left the dock, more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Snook, snook, and more snook pretty much sums it up. There is really little reason for us to fish for anything else when the areas most popular fish is biting this good. This past week has been very similar to the last few except that we are now ca more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Well, it seems spring has finally arrived in a big way! Blue skies, warm weather, and most importantly for fishing, warm water temperatures. It is amazing what a few degrees in water temperature can do for fishing. The middle of last week we were more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Sorry for the delay in my fishing report. I haven?t had much news to report, so that leaves me waiting for things to change weather wise. 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 jus more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay