Florida Fishing Reports

Grand Slam Fishing in the Keys Heats Up This Spring. - April 8, 2008. Tarpon have begun to migrate in from the Gulf during March and early April to join resident Tarpon here in the Keys. We have had some giant Tarpon ranging from 150-200 pounds on the line. The trained eye has spotted Bonefish on the more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

First Inshore Slam of 2008 - This past week Mother Nature showed the ugly side of her head by giving myself and many other Nature Coast anglers an extreme shot of wind and rain. Now April is normally considered the driest month that we Floridians can count on but over a 3 day s more...
Capt. Kyle Messier - Crystal River

Tunas and Sails - Spring continues to produce quality catches and a variety of species. It sounds like a broken record, but spring is my favorite time to fish in South Florida. Since my last report, we have caught a few more blackfin tunas and most where in the 25 t more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Red, White, and Blue Day on Banana River near Cocoa Beach - Spring has sprung, a few mullet are showing up and the fish are beginning to bite. This past week was a red (redfish), white (snook) and blue (bluefish) day for one angler and the trout are picking up too. Dennis, an angler from Canada, and h more...
Capt. Ron Presley - Cocoa Beach

Stuart Area Inshore and offshore - The offshore dolphin bite was beginning to heat up, when the wind and high seas kicked in and turned us back to river fishermen. Our last couple of trips produced mostly school sized dolphin, but last Friday one of the rods went off and a big bull ca more...
Capt. Kevin Drennan - Stuart

Our grand finale! - Yesterday we fished with Judy and Jeff Bairstow of Boston. Jeff's a sailing man and he'd never held a fishing rod in his hands before this trip, but after an hour or so he began to get the hang of it. We spent the morning on the Indian River, bringin more...
Capt. Sal Tardella - Sebastian

Tarpon Fishing Looking Good - Over the last few days Tarpon have began showing up in Boca Grande Pass in fishable numbers. The threadfin herring have started filling the harbor, and as long as the weather holds fishing for these giants will become more steady. Last week we experi more...
Capt. Andy Boyette - Boca Grande

snook are turning in northeast Florida - Snook fishing is in full swing in the Flagler Beach/Palm Coast area. On a recent charter three snook were caught that measured 21, 25 and 26. All three were caught live lining shrimp. They also caught trout, bluefish and flounder. I have also more...
Capt. Rob Ottlein - Flagler Beach

Sailfish Action/ And Dolphin action continue - This past weekend was filled with excitement. Fishing the Miami Billfish Tournament we had two great days and one bad day. But all three were exciting. The first day we fished off Key Biscayne and caught 4 sailfish. The fish were all caught in sh more...
Capt. Quinton Dieterle - Key Biscayne

Mosquito Lagoon Gator Trout and Redfish!! - The morning started off with the lowest of expectations, as the weather was predicted to be somewhat rainy and very windy from the northeast. Neither were in our favor to aid in accomplishing our mission of putting some Redfish and Trout in the boat more...
Capt. Tim Masten - Mosquito Lagoon