Florida Fishing Reports

January Has Been Cold but the Fishing is Still Good! - In the past three weeks we have experienced some chilly weather in Florida, with a couple strings of days with nights in the 30s and 40s, dropping water temperatures into the low 50s. With the lower water temperatures we have been focusing our eff more...
Capt. Taylor Cowieson - Bradenton

Fishing Fort Lauderdale Sailfish/Shark Deep Sea Charter - Fort Lauderdale Fishing with Top Shot Sportfishing Charter Boat and Capt. Zsak The Sam and Lorraine Evans and their son, Ben, were having a family vacation celebrating Ben graduating from college. They decided to make fishing a part of their cele more...
Capt. David Zsak - Fort Lauderdale

Sheepshead best bet in Sarasota - A series of cold fronts moved through the area, dropping the water temperature into the low to mid 50s. This scattered the fish off of the flats and a switch in tactics was required. On my Siesta Key fishing charters this past week clients fished w more...
Capt. Jim Klopfer - Sarasota

Sheepshead Reluctant but the Trout were Hungry - Tuesday, Jan 23rd, 2018, Ken Akin and I caught around 40 Speckled Sea Trout in the Mondongo Island area West of Pine Island. All catches were made on live shrimp, under a popping cork on a chartreuse, 1/4 oz jig head tied to a 4' mono leader on the e more...
Capt. Russ Walker - Cape Coral

Fishing Charters in Ft. Lauderdale with Wahoo and Sailfish - Gone is that latest cold snap and a light jacket to break the wind and take a slight chill away when offshore will keep you warm. Walking around town shorts and a t shirt should work just fine for most anyone. That light jacket to take the edge off i more...
Capt. John Logan - Fort Lauderdale

Stuart Redfish Bite - The redfish bite the past 5 years seems to get stronger and stronger. Lots of slot sized reds (18 - 27) since September with a few up to 33. With the water warming up from our recent cold snap, look for more redfish around area bridges and inlets more...
Capt. Bob Bushholz - Stuart

Best Sailfish Bite In A Decade, Get It While You Can! - We had an awesome day aboard the Alikai trolling dead bait out of Stuart. We started out pretty strong releasing 8-11 sails in the first 45 minutes of fishing. Things settled a little and we had some bad luck and a streak going 1-6 at one point with more...
Capt. Nick Cremasco - Stuart

Ponce Inlet Offshore Fishing Report - Warmer waters in the gulf stream is where all the wahoo are hanging out. Due to the extreme cold winter and rough seas our offshore days have been limited. High speed trolling in deep water seems to yield the best results. Look water temperature brea more...
Capt. Nick Czerok - Ponce Inlet

Tarpon Action Along The Beach In Miami, Florida - Got my 2018 winter tarpon season off to a good start both in the bay and along the beach. Tarpon fished last night with Telly and Tony. The objective was to get Tony his first tarpon. Our first drift had us hooked up and Telly was first up. He more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Hernando Fishing Report - Inshore fishing is great right now with the winter fishing patterns in full swing. Red fish are holing in the back bays and creeks around muddy/rocky bottoms live bait works great right now we are using live shrimp, fresh cut lady fish and mullet fis more...
Capt. Josh Fritz - Hernando Beach