Florida Fishing Reports

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Keeper red grouper, goliaths, yellowtail, mangs, redfish: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo at right is of a 23 inch redfish, caught on a recent backwater trip. I fished Tuesday in 45 feet out of New Pass. Shrimp were in short supply, after the st more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Sarasota and Venice - Sarasota, FL Fishing Report for 7/9 through 7/16/2005 Fly anglers on the Snook Fin-Addict had fast action with snook during the past week. We fished lighted docks before daylight with Grassett’s Grass Minnow flies and at dawn with poppers. In addi more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Red Tide is presenting some challenges on the lower end of Tampa Bay. Capt. Mark Thomas said that he was able to find bait easily on the range markers in the middle of the bay yesterday, but that most of it died soon as it hit the surface. It didn’ more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Stick Marsh & Farm 13 - Tim returned for day two and three and both days were smashing success stories with catches that went well over 100 fish per day with the majority of the fish 4-pounds or better. Tim has one more day to return later this month to attempt to have an e more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

South Indian River, Port St Lucie & Fort Pierce - South Indian River Fishing Report July 14, 2005 INSHORE: Summertime has arrived and the weather has been great! With the exception of a couple of days of wind and rain from Hurricane Dennis, it's been sunny and little wind on the water. The more...
Capt. Charlie Conner - Port St. Lucie

Orlando, FL - Lake Toho, Clermont Chain & The Kissimmee Chain - Lake Toho Last few days we got hit with a flurry of half day trips on Lake Toho and the bass did not let us down. Hottest trick had been tail hooking a wild shiner and pitching to the grassmat edges, and letting the shiner swim up under the sl more...
Capt. Tim Fey - Orlando

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Yes, there's tarpon! The tarpon have moved back into the area after disappearing while hurricane Dennis passed through. For a more detailed report check the previous report from yesterday. Good Luck! Capt. Scott Hughes Blackwater Charters more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Miami - Haulover to Fowey Light - July 13th, 2005 Just a few days ago, in my last report, I mentioned that we had some swordfish trips coming up. We had some trips and we have more sword trips booked in the next few days. On Monday night, we had a great trip that I wanted to get more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Flamingo & Everglades National Park - Summer Canes Hurricane Dennis has definitely left it's mark on South Florida. Although we were hardly in it's path, trees were uprooted, islands have new contours, markers are missing and the water has the clarity of chocolate milk. Unfortunate more...
Capt. Benny Blanco - Flamingo

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Lets get caught up, so it's straight to the daily reports. The first report is a bit old as it was before the blustery weather of Hurricane Dennis came through this weekend. Monday (7/4) Bill Quain, Joel, Ben, and Jackie were looking to catch som more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami