Florida Fishing Reports

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Swiss Cheese Spanish mackerel have invaded the inshore waters! Along the beaches and in the passes, the mackerel have come to feed on the large schools of glass-minnows. Live shrimp, spoons and jigs have worked well all week. A few nice co more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Key West and Lower Keys - Rusty Angler Nearly Nets Grand Slam Mary Carol Skinner stepped on FlatsMaster this morning and announced that she had fished just two days in the past year, so don't expect very much from me! she said. She then jumped and brought to the boat he more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Fishing is still Great! This week we have been fishing the wrecks. Lots of Sharks, Amberjacks and Barracudas. The Hammerheads have shown up. There was also a couple of Thresher sharks caught this week by other boats. Trolling this week h more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Indian River Lagoon & Banana River - Outstanding Catch Dept.- This week's outstanding catch was all mine, just a few hours ago. My charter was a no-show this morning so I went out alone. I found a big school of huge redfish in shallow water, put on my boots, and abandoned ship. One cas more...
Capt. John Kumiski - Titusville

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Warming Trend This past week was just what the doctor ordered. There was plenty of sunshine and the water temperature perked up quite nicely. The fish get real happy during a warming trend. Plenty of bait started showing up and we were able t more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Hi fellow anglers, Capt. Kunta Smith here, Once again it's time for my weekly fishing report. The last two months have been outstanding and its only going to get better. Springtime is upon us and that means sunny more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Key West Fishing Report - Offshore - It appears as though we are fighting a battle of changes. One week the fishing is great and the next week we are desperately looking for action. On the offshore scene, the water temperature has been around 74 degrees, with a strong west bound current more...
Capt. Ralph Delph - Key West

Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon - Well, one thing for sure if you do not like the weather in Florida wait a few days and it will change. Last week it blew like Kansas and this week it has been a lot calmer. The fish are feeding on the moon phases the best and are picky when the shrim more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - WEATHER The past week has brought wonderful spring temperatures and only one day of rain.It stayed breezy all last week though with winds out of the east at around 15knt.s keeping it quite bumpy offshore. INSHORE And the fish of the week was more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Nows the Time to Learn to Flyfish! This week produced plenty of action from Marco Island and the Ft Myers area. I fished the first half of the week out of Marco and the last half out of Punta Rassa. We found plenty of fish feeding but the catches more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers