Florida Fishing Reports

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 8/06/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey I only had two trips to report on for the week, but the fishing was about as good as can be expected for this time of year. The heat, nearly fresh water, and typical poor moving summer tides more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Red grouper, goliaths, snapper, redfish: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at right is of a pair of mangrove snapper, caught on an offshore trip. I fished Monday offshore. We used live shrimp to catch keeper mangrove and lane snapper, and som more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Miami and Key Biscayne – offshore - Sailfish Again Fishing yesterday was interesting, we tried the bottom with some nice success, and then the surface with even more success. First dropping on the wrecks we caught a rare true red snapper, 16 1/2 pounds and big Amberjack and some more...
Capt. Quinton Dieterle - Key Biscayne

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Great Summer Fishing Good bye July and hello August. July went out with a bang. We were so busy catching fish, that we did a bad job of updating our reports. On the 17th we caught 6 mutton snappers, a black grouper, a big red grouper, a sail more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Everglades National Park & Biscayne Bay - Cane Polin’ Charters Fishing report July 10th through August 5, 2005 July through early August fishing has been pretty good in the mornings. After noon the bite slows down because of the heat. Some water temperatures in east Florida Bay had read more...
Capt. Jim Hale - Flamingo

Jacksonville Fishing Report for Amelia Island & Mayport - Capt. Dave Sipler's Sport Fishing Mayport (Jacksonville) to Amelia Island, St. Johns River/Inlet & near-coastal waters. Updated: 8/05/05 Summer is half over, but the best is still to come Can you believe summer is half over already? But it's more...
Capt. Dave Sipler - Jacksonville

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Not More Grouper Regs and More Fish Reports Seems there is a big ruckus over how many grouper have been caught by recreational anglers last year. The NMFS has implemented the following interim rule, effective August 9, 2005, to reduce over fishin more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

South Indian River, Port St Lucie & Fort Pierce - South Indian River Fishing Report August 4, 2005 INSHORE: Catch of the Week: I am so excited to announce that our daughter and son-in-law have made Eva and I the proud grandparents to 7 1/2 pound baby Chloe Lee on July 28, 2005. She is the more...
Capt. Charlie Conner - Port St. Lucie

Fishing Report for Ft. Lauderdale & Port Everglades - Strong bite going on! Thursday was set up with Dale and his wife and son Noah. There were no Goggle eye baits to be found so we opted to get 3 dozen pilchards and make our way out to fish. A little west wind started the morning pushing us more...
Capt. Cary Hanna - Fort Lauderdale

Panhandle Fishing Report - Pensacola Bay & Choctawhatchee Bay - First, I’ll apologize for the delay in the fishing report. I’m still without a home phone line, thanks to Dennis. I’m copying this to a disc and loading it at the public library. How can anyone expect to get any fishing done with all these storms b more...
Capt. Eddie Woodall - Pensacola