Florida Fishing Reports

Key West and Lower Keys - Tarpon Explosion in Key West! The past two days have seen an explosion of Tarpon around Key West. Yesterday (March 3) we jumped 7 Tarpon in the morning and had shots at Permit in the afternoon. There were many boats ambushing the Silver Kings du more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Miami and Key Biscayne – offshore - The Weekend Fishing over the weekend mostly consisted of fishing for sailfish, during the Bob Lewis Billfish classic. Fishing on the Dr. J we were in it after the first day with two fish. The lead boat did have 5 but with the fish traveling in po more...
Capt. Quinton Dieterle - Key Biscayne

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - Over the past few weeks the fish in Islamorada has been great. the sailfish have been thick in the 200 foot range. They are feeding on Spanish Sardines- balling them. I have had my best success with live cigar minnows. I fished live ballyhoo one da more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - It's March and everyones thoughts are turning to cobia season. On a sunny day in the next couple of weeks the first cobia of 2002 will be caught just off the sandbar. For the next 6 weeks every pretty day ( and a lot of nasty ones) will have folks st more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound, Florida - Welcome to Capt. Terry's FISHING REPORT: Fishing Southwest Florida March 2nd, 2002 Redfish, We've been having front after front the last couple of weeks. Cooler weather and lots of wind has been making some trips almost impossib more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

Key West Fishing Report - Offshore - I apologize for the long delay in filing my latest fishing report. We had a major computer crash but have finally overcome our problems. Although the fishing was good through mid February, as we approached the full moon during the last half of the more...
Capt. Ralph Delph - Key West

Key West and Lower Keys - Think like Lefty! Last week I read a piece by Lefty Kreh and found it to be right on target for the current fishing report. Lefty is a living legend in the Keys and elsewhere, well known worldwide for his excellence in writing about fishing, his ph more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Sorry for the delay in my fishing report. I haven?t had much news to report, so that leaves me waiting for things to change weather wise. We just can?t seem to get rid of these cold fronts. It?s not like we are in a deep freeze or anything, we jus more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/23/2002 by Capt. Butch Rickey We had a week of pretty good tides, good weather, and good fishing, and I managed to get in three days. Here's how they went. On Monday, I had my first trip with Mike Lucas, and his nine more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Yesterday was picture perfect on the Homosassa, Florida flat. The air was cool and a jacket was required. But sunny blue skies and calm seas put us in a serene mood. We were in pursuit of a meal fish, something we could throw in the fry pan. Sinc more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa