Sarasota Fishing Reports

Sarasota and Venice - Sarasota & Venice, FL Fishing Report for 9/26 through 10/3/2004 Anglers on the Snook Fin-Addict had decent action with reds and trout in Sarasota Bay. The best action was with snook at night on an incoming tide in the ICW near Venice. The water qu more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Sarasota and Venice - Southwest FL & Chesapeake Bay Fishing Report for 9/13 through 9/26/2004 Here we go again! Hurricane Jeanne is bearing down on Sarasota as I write this report. I spent Saturday through Thursday of the past week visiting family in Delaware and was a more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Sarasota and Venice - Florida Keys and Venice, FL Fishing Report for 9/4 through 9/12/2004 Blame it on Ivan! Lost days of fishing that is. Even though he’s not even here yet, Ivan has already caused me to lose a day of fishing. We’ve all got our fingers crossed that he more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Sarasota and Venice - Sarasota & Charlotte Harbor, FL Fishing Report for 8/29 through 9/4/2004 Anglers on the Snook Fin-Addict had good action during the past week with trout and bluefish on deep grass flats, snook around lighted docks and tarpon on the beach. Fly angl more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Sarasota and Venice - Crane Meadow Lodge, MT Fishing Report for 8/21 through 8/28/2004 The temperature was 39 degrees on Friday morning. Southwest Florida? Not hardly! We were beginning a float on the Beaverhead River at the base of the Clark Canyon Reservoir Dam. With more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Bay fishing has turned on!! Bay fishing has turned on this past week! In the last few days, morning trips have turned up a large variety of fish on most of the grassflats and in the passes. Yesterday at about 0700, we started fishing on the Midd more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Sarasota and Venice - Sarasota, FL Fishing Report for 8/13 through 8/19/2004 We dodged a big bullet in Sarasota last Friday as Hurricane Charley took a last minute jog to the east and came ashore at Charlotte Harbor rather than Sarasota. The storm, which was originally more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Sarasota and Venice - Southwest Florida Fishing Report for 8/1 through 8/12/2004 Anglers on the Snook Fin-Addict had good action with tarpon, trout and bluefish during the past week and a half. In addition, several snook, redfish and a cobia were also caught and releas more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Where are the fish? Spanish mackerel and barracuda have been fairly good on the artificial “M” reefs. Much of the action has been done by trolling small artificial bait for the Spanish mackerel and using the mackerel for the cuda. Snapper fishin more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Sarasota and Venice - Southwest Florida Fishing Report for 7/24 through 7/31/2004 Anglers on the Snook Fin-Addict had a variety of action during the past week with tarpon, snook and trout. Fly and spin anglers “kept ‘em flyin’” as they connected with 3 tarpon and lande more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota