Regional Fishing Reports for:
Florida Keys and Florida Bay

Happy Holidays! - Dec. 20, 2008 Baby Tarpon, Bonefish and Permit are available when the water warms in between cold fronts through this holiday season and into January. Here is a December baby Tarpon. The cooler weather (average lows in the 60's, average highs more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Key West Action Remains Strong - The Gulfstream has formed a large loop towards Cuba leaving a pocket of still water, even a slight west current to west of Cosgrove Light. East of Cosgrove Light and off Sand Key Light, the current is screaming east with the northern edge of the Gulf more...
Capt. Ralph Delph - Key West

Lower Florida Keys Cool Back-Country Fishing - With water temperature down from now until March, you can bank on action packed fishing in the Lower Keys flats and back-country. To date, a wide variety of aggressive species have successfully made their way into the calm and shallow water in search more...
Capt. Luke Kelly - Key West

Sailfish Bite Rolls On! - The sailfishing in the middle keys continues to be fantastic! This week there were lots of fish both on the reef edge and a bit off of the reef in 150-250ft of water. Up on the reef edge chasing ballyhoo have been lots of smaller sails. Out off the more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon

Tarpon on the beach - The next stop we made was an area I found a couple years ago and its just a great spot, its deep with heavy grass and giant potholes that but up against a bunch of dead trees. This spot has not produced any monster fish but on this day it produced a more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Backcountry Fishing on the Windy Days - I hope my suggestions of gifts that I mentioned in my last Fishing Report were helpful. For the past week we have had cool temperatures and quite a bit of wind but that has been good for some areas and not so good for others. The best thing about l more...
Capt. Alan Sherman - Flamingo

Sailfish are here - The offshore fishing has been dominated by sailfish. There are also a good number of kingfish. The yellow tails snappers are biting good. Spanish mackerel are in the gulf big time. They provide a lot of action on light tackle Izzy more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

12/15/08 Flamingo- In And Out With The Wind - This weekend we fished the inside(Whitewater Bay) and the outside(Floriday Bay) in very windy conditions. We fished the inside saturday and found extremely low water. We only picked up a few small fish and the north wind was killing us, so we made more...
Capt. Steven Tejera - Flamingo

Key Largo Backcountry Fishing Update - Backcountry-12/04/08 thru 12/14/08 Fishing the backwaters off Key Largo today was very good despite the stiff winds out of the north east. Ducking in to one of the many mangrove creeks to find calm water provided good action and a mixed bag of bac more...
Capt. Bob Fernicola - Key Largo

Winter Fishing in S. Florida - The bite at Flamingo seems to be doing pretty well and now seeing more boaters on the water than before. I think it has to do with more desirable conditions and cheaper gas. Fishing is the number one reason though. And I expect to spend a lot more more...
Capt. Ariel Cabrera - Flamingo