Florida Fishing Reports

Fly and SPin Fishing for Tarpon and Snook in Pine Island Sound - Fishing Report from Spotted Tail 6/2/09 It's been a good week. Monday I arrived in Fort Myers, dropped off my stuff, picked up David McCleaf, and went scouting. We found tarpon everywhere we looked. I had actually had time to take some shots wi more...
Capt. John Kumiski - Pine Island Sound

How to catch kings on 8# and 10# line.... - Sometimes you have to fish in the back of the boat.... Sometimes you have to get on your knees and fish in the front of the boat.... Always happy when you put them in boat! Everybody's light tackle guru was at it again today zapping those ki more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Homosassa Fishing! - Friends: The weather is getting warmer and the Homosassa fishing is heating up! Lots of different species being CAUGHT as the Gulf water temperature reaches 80 degrees, with Tarpon, Snook, Redfish, Speckled Trout, Spanish Mackerel, Cobia and Groupe more...
Capt. "Red Ed" Brennan - Homosassa

Great Weather and Great Fishing... - The weather has been beautiful for the past week. Despite the 15 inches of rain we got the fish have settled right back in. All the fresh water did move them around some but they are still chewing. On a trip late last week it was business as usual more...
Capt. James Howard - Jacksonville

Opener Snapper Season 2009 Panama City - Snapper season opened today and it didn't take long to fill my tag two drops two fish wow that was fast!! running only a few miles from the pass. it took me longer to buy bait dew to the large number of boats going out this morning. And when you get more...
Capt. Scott Fitzgerald - Panama City

Naples beach Snook cooperate nicely - Spent the morning with Craig Mauritz of Pennsylvania today. He had only caught a few beach Snook before, so I was anxious to put him on fish. The conditions for the first couple hours were not very good (dirty water and waves), but he stuck a f more...
Capt. Paul Wolter - Naples

Good day for fly fishing and the trash can slam! - Met Brad Cripe from southern Illinois at the dock bright and early this morning. We had a date with some red fish I haven't visited in a couple of weeks. As we eased into the spot, fish were pushing wakes in front of us. We set up and waited for t more...
Capt. James Pic - Panama City

Flamingo - Stealthy Rewards - In the skinny stuff, stealth is key. If you want to catch the fish you see, both your approach and presentation have to be stealthy. Chances are, if the fish hear or see you, they will not eat. Everything is fair game here... sounds from the engine more...
Capt. Benny Blanco - Flamingo

Fluctuation conditons on the Marsh - From low water conditions that almost equaled 2001, the Marsh has recovered with all the rain that we have had. Inflow areas have been flowing in three locations. Only the pump house produced a substantial bite. The front pipes had a good current flo more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Jacksonville May Report - A lot of freshwater from last weeks rains have made fishing challenging. More than a solid week of rain and high winds has the salinity low and the clarity level similar to dark tea. The upside is that the fish adapt fairly quickly and they still hav more...
Capt. Ron Schurr - Jacksonville