Florida Fishing Reports

Estero bays doing good - Well winter time is now upon us, as we watch the first of hopefully few major cold fronts work through Southwest Florida. However the fishing's been good overall in both the bay and nearshore waters. The last two weeks have been fun most off the days more...
Capt. Greg Stamper - Estero Bay

Snookin - Back on the Sound with a light SE breeze The shoreline so quiet I was afraid to sneeze Glass minnows scattering something lurking about The surface erupted as the big Snook took to air Her gills clacking and we could only stare 32 of more...
Capt. George Grosselfinger - Pine Island Sound

Big Tripletail around Town - We're finally starting to see some large tripletail here in the Stuart area. Since Thanksgiving we have landed several close to 20 lbs. and should continue through December. We recently caught a rare keeper grouper at 28 with the majority inshore be more...
Capt. Bob Bushholz - Stuart

Good Fun, Good People - Fishing is starting to heat up as we approach winter. The bait has been showing up and the predators have not been far behind. There have been a wide variety of species to catch over the past few weeks. Towards the beginning of November we have be more...
Capt. Freddie David - Haulover Inlet

Dec 2017 Mosquito Lagoon New Smyrna Daytona Backcountry - Winter fishing is coming to central Florida, now still on the warm side with water temperatures in the upper 60's, so a late fall pattern continues so far, Seatrout are widespread through the backcountry on Mosquito Lagoon and the Indian River here i more...
Capt. Michael Savedow - Mosquito Lagoon

Fishing Chokoloskee in December - December is one of the months that we really start to pay close attention to the tides, especially around the full and new moon. The full moon this December falls on the 4th and the new moon is on the 18th. We will have extreme low tides the morning more...
Capt. Brandon Acosta - Chokoloskee

The Fishing and Weather are Great - December 3: I fished with repeat clients Kim and Pat Hauer yesterday for a full day. The guys wanted meat so that is what we focused on. We caught some live bait and went straight to bottom fishing. We picked away at some snappers, Seabass more...
Capt. Nick Cremasco - Stuart

Offshore Fishing Report - Ran out about 45 miles with some friends that were down for covering bait and gas on Monday to check out the offshore bite as the nearshore fishing has been a little slow the last couple of days. Started off drifting for grouper. Picked up 4 keeper more...
Capt. Ted Gibson - Naples

Snook, Tarpon and Redfish! - Greetings! The fishing out back remains consistent with numbers, while up front is now picking up for us (on fair weather days). Out back: Snook (common) are plentiful with many a fish in the mid to low 20 in. class, mostly caught on fly but more...
Capt. Armando Alejo - Flamingo

Breakout the Dredges - Hello Fish Fans. Welcome aboard the REEL BUSY and to our Stuart Florida Fishing Report. Sailfish season has begun so breakout the dredges and tease them up. Sailfish and dolphin have been providing most of the action with kingfish, wahoo and tuna more...
Capt. Wayne Brodeur - Stuart