Florida Fishing Reports

Sep 3 and 4 aboard the Hooked Up - Sep 2009 Sep 3 Today we had no fishing trips lined up but one of our regular customers Greg from Baltimore showed up at the dock and since we had been sitting in for the last couple of days we decided to go out for a few hours and kind of show Greg more...
Capt. Taco Perez - Fort Lauderdale

Mahi Mahi Mania - It all began innocently enough for the Skelton boys, Dad and two sons, from North Georgia. It was a routine customer request. The day's primary objective was to run way, way afar and far, far away into the cobalt- blue of the Gulf of Mexico where t more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Clean Water Equals Good Gigging!!! - A little break in the water clarity last week made for a great Flounder gigging trip… It's been a while since the water has been clean enough that I could gig any area I wanted to and it paid off for Phil Baker and my self. Perfect tide from 2am t more...
Capt. James Howard - Jacksonville

SW FL prospects improving - Snook Season came in with somewhat of a whimper. Several tournaments (Mac Flats) had low numbers. One dynamic effecting the snook fishing is the current moon phase. Most fish are dining under the moonlight and taking a seista during the day. Tro more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

September brings fall bass patterns, hopes of winter crappie. - The bay and gulf fishery is great and getting better. There is, however, another fishery here in the panhandle that will attract fishermen from all over. I grew up fishing Deer Point Lake, Gap Pond, Porter Pond and the Sandhill Ponds. Bass fishing more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

live baiting muttons - We fished a half day on Sat. and caught a nice well full of cigars and spanish sardines. With no bites on top all of our bites came on the bottom as expected. Our bottom rod consists of 65lb. PowerPro with a 40 turn Bimini and 70 ft. of 50lb. Ande pi more...
Capt. Bruce Burnette - Miami

Naples Tarpon Fishing 9/6/09 - The tarpon fishing has been out of control the last two weeks in Naples. Big schools of glass minnows have invaded the beaches and big fish are hungry. Tarpon, sharks and mackeral are putting on a show. I have even seen some 20lb kingfish skying on b more...
Capt. Chris McCubbin - Naples

Sight-fishing for snook in the surf - Fishing slowed somewhat during the last week, but we still managed respectable snook catches along the beach. Mostly fly fishing, we landed snook to 31 inches on assorted flies. The top producer, of course, was my D.T. Special (variation). more...
Steve Gibson - Englewood

September in the Florida Keys - Video report from the last couple of days on the flats, fishing with my friends. Fishing here continues to be epic. The last week or so has been very warm with little or no wind. Glassy smooth conditions make it easy to spot rollers, tailers and wake more...
Capt. Scott Yetter - Little Torch Key

Redfish Arriving Right On Schedule - As summer winds down the fall redfish schools are arriving right on schedule. We ran into a couple schools this week in northern Pine Island Sound and Charlotte Harbor. All the fish were big averaging about thirty inches and were schooled tight worki more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound