Florida Fishing Reports

Fernandina to Saint Augustine & St. Johns River - Inshore report Jacksonville area waters Speckled trout are closed in our waters this month, so naturally, they are biting fairly well. Since they are weak fish, release them carefully with wet hands if you must touch them. There are some large more...
Capt. Bob Cosby - Jacksonville

Boca Grande, Florida Fishing Report - Temps Drop Fishing Picks Up Trout fishing continues to very good with limits of trout in the keeper range and oversized fished in the mix. Deeper flats with scattered potholes are worth your attention. Drifting these flats while casting to the edg more...
Capt. Andy Boyette - Boca Grande

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Plenty To Do The effects of winter are finally here. Water temperatures have dipped to the mid sixties. Fronts have been passing through Florida at regular intervals. In fact it is raining as I type. It’s not all bad news. There have been fish to more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Fishing Report for Indian River & St. Lucie River - Offshore - Fishing has gotten a lot better in the past couple of weeks. The main reason is the return of live bait. Acres of threadfin herring have returned to their usual haunts just outside of the St. Lucie inlet. The sailfish bite has improved greatly with m more...
Capt. Kevin Drennan - Stuart

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - GET IN BETWEEN THE HIGHS AND THE LOWS The real secret to catching winter groupers is to build enough flexibility into your fishing schedule so you can select a comfortable day to go offshore. Granted winter tends to have more low pressure systems more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Spring weather returned early this week, and despite some early morning fog on Friday, conditions were good. I fished with Gabe Krakowski on Thursday and Friday and despite a chilly ride to and from the flats south of Apollo Beach, we were warm en more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - I'm Back! And with a new boat too! I have (finally) put the grinder up for the year and took the new boat out a few times this past week. The motors now have 20 hours on them and I ran my first charter on the new and improved Dead Fish yesterday more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Warm February Heats Up Gulf Fishing Action The warm weather all of us experienced here along the Southwest coast of Florida this past January was definitely one of the mildest I can remember. Other than a couple of weak cold fronts that passed t more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Miami and Key Biscayne – offshore - SAiLFISH ACTION BACK ON AFTER A FEW DAYS OF DREADFUL FISHING THE ACTION IS ON. TODAY WITH ONLY A COUPLE OF HOURS OF FISHING TIME WE CAUGHT AND RELEASED 3 SAILFISH AND MISSED SEVERAL MORE. THE ACTION IS SPREAD OUT FROM KEY BISCAYNE TO TRIUMPH REEF more...
Capt. Quinton Dieterle - Key Biscayne

Naples & Marco Island, FL - Weather the last couple of weeks has been Chilly, so goes the fishing. Fishing has been a little tough the last two weeks. Weather has been very chilly in the mornings which is putting the fish off the feed some. We are catching some fish it just more...
Capt. Roan zumFelde - Naples