Florida Fishing Reports

Snook inside and out - Sunday morning was a challenge, getting bait was tuff! What's up with that? Before a charter I allow an hour to gather bait before meeting my clients. Chumming and only getting pinfish was frustrating as I also wanted a live well full of white baits. more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

Summer time tarpon and snook - Well summer has arrived and it is off to a great start. The rain has started a little early, but most people appreciate the wet weather. Typical morning this time of year we start out casting to rolling tarpon at first light. If the day is overcast more...
Capt. Jeff Legutki - Ten Thousand Islands

Snook,redfish,tarpon - The winds have finally tamed down these past few weeks and the snook fishing has definitely heated up. Redfish, trout, and the occasional tarpon will round out the day. It has been a blustery spring and we are happy to see the dog days of summer a more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Go "chumming"...catch a bunch of fish on custom rods. - Ran the first all chum trip today. If you have never experienced catching big spanish in a chum line, it's something you definitely want to try. I use 8 1/2 foot ML custom rods built on St. Croix blanks with oversized reels and eight pound line. more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Thinking About An East Coast Slam - I'm Still Thinking About An East Coast Slam I never should have started reporting on this slam thing. Now it haunts me on every trip. One day this week was good for two varieties of the slam - snook and trout but no redfish. Another day was potent more...
Capt. Ron Presley - Cocoa Beach

Crazy Kingfish, Tuna and Sailfish Bite - The last couple of days on the Cutting Edge have been incrediable. The action Friday and Saturday was the best I have seen in years. I don't think either day we had time to get all the lines out with out a bite. Friday Cap running the boat had a bunc more...
Capt. Quinton Dieterle - Key Biscayne

Great Fishing, But Tough Catching - The Fish Don't Want To Eat! - It was again a strange weather week, with early AM storms almost every day getting in the way of fishing. After canceling and rescheduling trips where possible, I was finally on the water Friday for a three boat trip with Dan Pease and his good frie more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

amberjack on spin tackle - Fishing has been real productive with this water temp rising everything is biting. A little disapointed with the size of red snapper in shallow water off destin alot of 2 to 3 pound fish a month ago there were all averaging 5 to 7 pounds. Jack fishin more...
Capt. Brian Keith - Destin

Slamming Sammy - Saturday's trip was simple; fish lower Tampa Bay for a grand slam snook, redfish and trout. My plan was simple as well, bait at 6 am, pick up my angler at 730 and start on the nearby beaches for snook. With Sammy from Washington DC onboard we made th more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

From Catfish to Permit - Mosquito Creek Outdoors Indian River Lagoon Coast Fishing Report, June 6, 2009 By Captain Tom Van Horn For those of you who haven't seen the news and do not live in Florida, our record drought conditions were flushed away by an extraordina more...
Capt. Tom Van Horn - Indian River Lagoon