Florida Fishing Reports

Busy Week in Jacksonville! - There will not be any pressure inshore in Jacksonville this week but all the boat ramps will be packed due to the Jacksonville King Fish tournament. With close to a thousand boats headed to the ocean you better camp out over night to get a trailer sp more...
Capt. James Howard - Jacksonville

Big show in Orlando and big fish around Boca Grande. - 7-20-09 web report by Captain Van Hubbard I saw lots of new gear and share the optimism dominate at the ICAST Show in Orlando last week. ICAST is the industry trade show open to dealers and outdoor press to exhibit, sell and promote fishing ge more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

To Slam or Not To Slam - James Rockefeller from Albuquerque NM caught this bonefish on fly after breaking one off and pulling the hook on another. James used the live crab trick to encourage this 33 lb permit to inhale his hook. Ed Wettach and his wife Eleanor fished fo more...
Capt. Carl Ball - Biscayne Bay

Pensacola Inhsore / nearshore fishing report - It's been a while since I've written a report, but because of all the great fishing along the NW Panhandle, I haven't had the time. If you're in the mood for some great light tackle inshore action, then you need to check out Pensacola, Florida. It's more...
Capt. John Rivers - Pensacola

Fishing has been "HOT" in Southwest Florida - In one word HOT was the best way to describe fishing over the week. And not so much the fish bite but the heat. Flat calm days with little or no breeze and the lack of our daily thunderstorms have really heated things up during the mid day. Fishi more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound

Boca Grande, Fl. Tarpon - Boca Grande, Fl Report 19 July 2009 Tarpon are plentiful in Charlotte Harbour right now. Most of the fish are in the middle of the northern section where the water is 15 to 20 feet deep. They show a lot when the wind is calm, but stay out of more...
Capt. Pete Greenan - Boca Grande

Daytime Swords or Fishing The Edge - This is normally the time of year that we are looking for mahis in the Gulfstream. The dolphin fishing was good in the beginning of June but has really dropped off since then. The good news is that we have been concentrating on either daytime sword more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

summer stuff - just returned from procuring new boat, discription will be on web site soon,[really nice]. The fishing has been excellent as far as action goes. Bonita ,are thick but some really good kingfish are getting through. Dolphin fishing has been slow, we more...
Capt. Tony Rizzo - Palm Beach

Mosquito Lagoon - July 18th, 2009 - July 18th, 2009- The World Famous Mosquito Lagoon! Here in central Florida you can definitely tell that summer time is here. It is hot out, that's why. Cooking! The humidity has taken over for sure along with temps rising fast and the sun beating more...
Capt. Drew Cavanaugh - Mosquito Lagoon

Bottom Fishing is hot! - We had a great day bottom fishing yesterday. We found our best bait 6 miles offmayport - cigars, sardines and some live squid. We couldn't find any decent sized baits from BB on out. We had an easy limit of snapper to 15#, 4 or 5 mangrove snappers more...
Brett Gordon - Jacksonville