Tampa Bay Fishing Reports

Tampa Bay Kingfish - The winds were down earlier this week, but the tides were slow, and so was fishing on Southshore Tampa Bay by most accounts. Capt. Tom Rinehart of Apollo Beach reported finding some kingfish well inside the bay. He said he saw some bait skipping out more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tarpon Migration Turning On - Hello from Anna Maria. Well things are starting to look a lot better around here. The tarpon migration finally showed up after being about two weeks late. This was because of two late unseasonable cold fronts that blasted in, one a month ago and a a more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Tarpon At The Sunshine Skyway - Alot of folks have been asking me when are the tarpon going to be at the Skyway ? Well I don't think they ever truly left this year. The Way holds some resident tarpon year round. However, this is the first year that I can recall in wh more...
Capt. Sean Hagen - Tampa Bay

Tampa bay fishing getting hot and heavy! - Let me start by saying the bite is on! Just about all of the fishing is going off. It's warming up more and more every day and more fish are coming out of their little hiding spots. We have had a lot of Tarpon start to show up on the beaches and ot more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Flats Holding Big Fish - The flats the flats the flats are on fire! Big reds, snook, and trout have moved on the the flats and the action has been red hot! During recent charters the red fish bite has been explosive. For the last 3 weeks we have been more...
Capt. Sean Hagen - Tampa Bay

Summer Like Fishing Last Week - Snook season ended Wednesday and I failed to put a keeper in the box, despite seeing quite a few fish along the mangrove in front of Sand Key. I did catch a 22-inch redfish on the flats in front of the island, and that fish went home for dinner. It h more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Spring on The Flats - It's that time of year guys, which direction do you go. Inshore, offshore, snook, redfish and cobia on the flats or kingfish, little tunny and grouper offshore. It's all happing now and the action is fast which ever direction you pick. It's really be more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Action Heats up on Southshore Tampa Bay - As winds moderated to less than gale force for much of the week and water temperatures rose into the mid 70s action on southshore Tampa Bay heated up. Early last week Terry Akroyd of Ruskin and I decided to take a trip across the bay to Pinellas P more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Trout are coming back in Tampa bay! - The weather is starting to get back on track and fishing is right behind it! The cold front that came through the area last week was a pretty big one, not to mention very strange for this time of year. It dropped the water temperature roughly 10 de more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

North Bay Snook Readying for Their Spring Spawn - On two trips this week to north tampa bay I've found the snook feeding like theres no tomorrow, and to my delight most of these fish were over the slot limit. On a trip early in the week we more...
Capt. Sean Hagen - Tampa Bay