Regional Fishing Reports for:
Florida Keys and Florida Bay

Key West and Lower Keys - Permit Days are Here! As the cool fall winds spread down into the Keys from the northern climes, the Permit begin to migrate back into shallower waters and channels, leaving the Gulf wrecks deeper Atlantic reefs. It is during these fall months when more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Marathon, Florida Keys - Yellowtail Bite Is On The Reef fishing has been hot lately for Yellowtail Snapper on the reef both at night and during the day. During the recent full moon, many serious Yellowtail anglers have been out there at night and have been scoring heavil more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon

Key West and Lower Keys - Bonefish Techniques for Deep Water Bonefishing during the fall months is outstanding in between cold fronts that begin sweeping into South Florida in October and November. The water temps cool down into the high 70's and low 80's and the schools of more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - The fishing out of Flamingo remains pretty darn good. Yesterday, for the second trip in a row one of my anglers caught and released a grand slam.... The primary pattern is still, find the baitfish, and most of the predators will be somewhere nearb more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - Last week at Flamingo the superb fall fishing continued along the Gulf coast and nearby rivers. By Sunday the bait was starting to work well up into Oyster Bay and Cormorant Pass with lots of spanish mackeral and speckled trout feeding on them. T more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Key West Fishing Report - Offshore - It seems as though, each year that we head north, we have a preconceived idea of what to expect, based on our past year of experience. The one thing that I have learned is to expect the unexpected and deal with it or take advantage of it, whichever t more...
Capt. Ralph Delph - Key West

Key West and Lower Keys - Tarpon Year 'Round! Baby Tarpon immediately take flight when hooked, contorting and shaking their head, rattling their gill plates, and rolling their bodies around trying to throw that hook out of their mouth. The challenge is to keep the fish on b more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Everglades National Park - Flamingo - Last week the fishing at Flamingo was again very good. On Wednesday we had trouble finding a keeper sized redfish along the Gulf coast. They were all too large.... The biggest was about 13lbs, the smallest was just under 27. We caught snook up to more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Key West and Lower Keys - Sight Fishing on the Flats Sight fishing on the flats for Bonefish, Permit and Tarpon is an acquired skill. Many anglers who are successful on trout streams or bass lakes expect to be just as successful on the flats on their first trip. Preparatio more...
Capt. Dexter Simmons - Key West

Marathon, Florida Keys - Lots of Reef Action! Reef fishing in the middle Keys area has been very good recently with nice numbers of Black Grouper and Mangrove Snapper inhabiting the 20-40ft. depths. Some nice catches of Red and Black Grouper have been coming in from Hawk more...
Capt. Bob Brown - Marathon