Florida Fishing Reports

Port St Joe Bay - Fish are being caught in the south end of the bay in 3-6 ft of water around grass edges and potholes. Using Live Shrimp on a Carolina rig, ¼ oz egg sinker and a 16-20 fluorocarbon leader with a 2/0 hook. Trout have been ranging from 1-8 lbs. Also a more...
Capt. Taft Taunton - Port St. Joe

West Wind Slows Mahi Bite, Bottom Fishing Instead - March 22: Stuart fishing continues to be tough for dolphin with the west wind and calm weather. We need a little wind out of the Easterly direction to spark back up the Spring Mahi Mahi bite. We caught 1 mahi trolling, 10 nice size lane snapper, 1 more...
Capt. Nick Cremasco - Stuart

Grouper seasons for Always Fishing - 4 Florida counties open April 1 to gag grouper recreational harvest State waters off the coast of Franklin, Wakulla, Jefferson and Taylor counties will open to recreational harvest of gag grouper starting April 1. This regional season will remai more...
Capt. Frank Bourgeois - Hernando Beach

More Cobia, Hammerhead Sharks, Permit.... - Another great week of fishing out of Fort Myers Beach. Captain John, hooked into what appeared to be a Great White Shark and it proceeded to spool our Goliath Grouper rig with 400 lb. test line. 12 foot Hammerhead shark brought to boat on Monday alo more...
Capt. Brett Swenson - Fort Myers

Stuart Area Offshore and Inshore - The past two weeks we finally saw the wind and rains diminish and some pretty good fishing became available. The dolphin bite really took off and the numbers caught were sometimes in the double digits. A lot of these fish were well over twenty pounds more...
Capt. Kevin Drennan - Stuart

Spring Fishing off Miami Heats Up - Fishing off Miami has been slow to develop as March should be an excellent month to fish. It feels more like January as the fishing has lagged somewhat as it compares to other years. Nevertheless, we are producing catches in all areas, top water, bo more...
Capt. Carlos Mendez - Miami

Great All Day Fishing Trip - You never know what will happen on an all-day fishing trip here in Fort Lauderdale. Our group today had fished the afternoon the day before with poor results, my day off. So when they showed up to the dock on the absolutely gorgeous day, a few things more...
Capt. Steve Souther - Fort Lauderdale

Charlotte Harbor / Pine Island Sound Fishing Report - With water temps rising the mid day fishing will be slow. Fish the morning tides for the best action. Fly Fishing Tip of the Week: Snook will be cruising the mangrove edges at the tide rises. Redfish will be near the oyster beds as the tide ebbs. S more...
Capt. Dave Pecci - Charlotte Harbor

Spring time Fishing - Spring Time is Tarpon Time The Tarpon bite has become nice and steady Hooking and catching several daily Also snook fishing has been very good early in The mornings .I've been using live bait and some artificial It's time to go fish and g more...
Capt. Richard Burson - Key Largo

Sailfish Trifecta - Early Sunday morning three anglers set out on the Blue Waters 2 in search of offshore fishing success. Captain John stopped at the bent range marker for live bait. With some effort, the guys were able to quill two dozen herring using sabiki rigs. more...
Capt. John Barker - Miami