Florida Fishing Reports

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 8/16/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey This will be the last fishing report for the month of August. The report includes two good days of fishing with two of my best customers, David Bernot and John Hitt. The week began on Mo more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Florida Fly Fishing For Tarpon Good/Not 2003 On a clear and sunny day on St. George Sound, Mark Lawson stood ready with his fly rod in hand. Andy Smith was centered between Mark and me, waiting for a turn to cast at a cruising tarpon. We were on more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon - The water has finely come up a little from the extreme lows we have had for the past month. The low water pushes the fish in the pools along the flats but now that the water is back up the fish are spread out across the flats. You can cast the usual more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Night Fishing We had the MS worm! Thank goodness we got rid of it. Now we can talk about fishing again. We have done almost all of our fishing at night. For a while it was pretty tough to catch a swordfish. We went several nights with no bites or more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Wreck Slam Greetings, Crazy weather patterns have affected fishing lately. Morning thunderstorms, sloppy sea conditions, tropical systems. Mixed in have been beautiful chamber of commerce days like summer should be. I have only made two runs of more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Stick Marsh & Farm 13 - Over the last week we have fished both Ansin/Garcia and the Stick Marsh and have had some pretty outstanding results. Scott took Ryan Edwards out on Garcia. Ryan was participating in a Jr. IGFA tournament. This young fellow did quite a job endi more...
Capt. George Welcome - Stick Marsh-Farm 13

Key West and Lower Keys - Baby Tarpon in the Marquesas Baby Tarpon in the Marquesas and the Lower Florida Keys are often accompanied by some good size Jack Crevalle chasing the same glass minnows, pilchard, or mullet minnows. Here Ken displays a nice 25 pound Tarpon caught more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - This past week my time was equally divided between Flamingo during the daytime and Biscayne Bay at night. The night fishing has been fair. Our outing last night resulted in jumping 4 baby tarpon in the 20 to 30 lb range. The fish wouldn't eat our more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Fishing Report for Ft. Pierce, Florida - The trout bite has been steady with a lot of big trout being reported like the 10.5 pounder that James Casio from Oil City, Penn. caught while fishing the area around the Moorings. James used a live pigfish. Most of the trout reports were coming fr more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Get wrecked for spectacular summer snappers. It is a sure-fire slam dunk during the hot months for red and gray snappers, with some lanes and vermilions as a bonus. This technique is so simple and straight forward, it is surprising more anglers don more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle