Florida Fishing Reports

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Increaing The Numbers As predicted, fishing continued to improve this past week. The morning shift enjoyed a strong incoming tide. There is an increasing amount of bait flowing into the Marco and Ten Thousand Islands areas. It is a mixture of smal more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Miami and Key Biscayne – offshore - Full Moon Dilemma With a full moon most of the week and a shortage of bait in the area, you had to make the tough decision each morning whether to catch live bait or go strait out. If you elected to go strait out you have to hope the fish you fin more...
Capt. Quinton Dieterle - Key Biscayne

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - Biscayne Bay nights The baby tarpon in the urban areas of Biscayne Bay were eating flies this past week, but only when a few shrimp were moving with the tide. It's the last trickle of shrimp right now and when none are present the fish get lockja more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Fishing Report for Ft. Pierce, Florida - On Saturday Sept. 1st 2001, the 9th Annual St. Lucie County Sheriff Explores Fishing Tournament was held here in Ft. Pierce. The Explores had a record turn out for both the inshore and offshore anglers fishing in the tournament. Sheriff Ken Mascara more...
Capt. Joe Ward - Fort Pierce

Key West and Lower Keys - Summer Bonefish in Streaming Video! Today and previous days this week we have had some more great Bonefish action. Click here to see streaming video of a Beauty of an 8 pound Bonefish landed on FlatsMasterHere is Toby and Brenda with a nice Bone more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Fishing Report for the Florida Panhandle - Now that the huge volume of fresh water from tropical storm Barry has washed through the bay and blended with the salty waters of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, the inshore and offshore fishing has improved dramatically. Inshore, the speckled trout more...
Capt. Alex Crawford - Carrabelle

Ponce Inlet to Mosquito Lagoon - This past week in the Mosquito Lagoon the reds were up on the flats as well as the deeper water. We started our day today throwing top water plugs at many targets. Even with a perfect cast with the plugs the reds would shy away. Then we tossed a few more...
Capt. Joe Porcelli - Mosquito Lagoon

Miami and Key Biscayne – offshore - Fish around Late All week we were able to find Dolphin,today though the fishing slowed down. We were not out long enough to give it a good shot, but the boats that did stay out caught very little. The early week up to Friday was steady with Thursd more...
Capt. Quinton Dieterle - Key Biscayne

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - This week, 9/12, is why I fish in the keys. On Monday, I fished Andy Harman from the UK. He wanted to catch a Tarpon. We began the trip at 4:30 in the afternoon. We had a lot of action with rays, sharks cuda and big no-see-ems, but no silver guys. I more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

Report for Destin, Florida - Nearshore - What a week! The chamber of commerce needs to figure out how to patent the conditions we've had here. The winds have been light, the skies sunny, the big tourist crush is over so you can drive around easy and there is no one on the beach. Oh, and the more...
Capt. Larry Pentel - Destin