Regional Fishing Reports for:
West Florida (Englewood to Cedar Key)

Tampa Bay fishing / catching! - Fishing in Tampa Bay has been excellent lately. With all the small bait around the area, the fish have been biting really well. Even though the mid day bite is usually the toughest, we have even been able to get it going lately. The fish just love more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Sarasota Fishing Report Capt Jim Klopfer 8/18/2012 - Fishing the deep grass flats near Big Pass and New Pass was very good this week. Strong incoming tides helped the bite. Baitfish are thick on the bars and grass flats, mostly threadfin herring with some pilchards mixed in. I went to live bait earl more...
Capt. Jim Klopfer - Sarasota

Red Fish Action - Inshore Fishing Report For Hernando Beach Inshore fishing is great the red fish schools are getting bigger 10 to 15 fish in a school and most of them are in the upper slot 25 to 27 inches. Bait is the way to go for a good red fish bite, pin more...
Capt. Josh Fritz - Hernando Beach

Anna Maria Heat is On!! - Summer fishing has been steadily improving as the days begin to shorten. Redfish will be congregating to form big roaming schools. Look for them on the shallow bars on the outgoing tide or the oyster bars on high water. Excellent time to use artifici more...
Capt. Tom Chaya - Anna Maria

Reds are on the move - The redfish bite has come alive the past few days with good numbers of fish from 10 to 50 reds in an outing. Been catching nice limits of trout in the 18 to 22 inch range as our bi-catch. Mangrove snapper, jacks, ladyfish, small sharks and flounder h more...
Capt. Brady Nelson - Anna Maria

Homosassa Scalloping!!! - Homosassa Scalloping!!! Homosassa continues to be the Scallop Capital of the World, with limits being bought back to the docks on most charters. Not only are the scallops plentiful but they are the largest anyone can remember! As everything i more...
Capt. "Red Ed" Brennan - Homosassa

Sarasota Report, Capt Jim Klopfer, 8/11/2012 - The strategy to cast lures and flies at first light to take advantage of the early morning bite then switching to live bait when the action slowed has been extremely productive on my charters this week. Baitfish are thick on the grass flats and very more...
Capt. Jim Klopfer - Sarasota

Good end of summer fishing off Anna Maria - The last couple of weeks redfish have been on fire. My poor popping corks have really taken a beating almost everyone has teeth marks. Sometimes I think putting a hook at the bottom of the float would catch more fish then the bait. On the better days more...
Capt. Rick Gross - Anna Maria

Hot Water Reds - After sticking my head in a bucket of ice water, I looked out of the corner of my eye to see a rod doubled over in the holder. I love cut bait on hot days. You can talk, get a drink, and find some shade on your boat if you got a cover of some sort. more...
Capt. Thom Rodgers - Tampa Bay

Spanish mackerel showing up along with speckled trout in Sarasot - Catch of the week goes to Russell archer who landed a 32 redfish on his last cast Wednesday morning. It was a great battle on a light spinning rod! Other species caught this week were snook, speckled trout, Spanish mackerel, jack crevelle, mangrov more...
Capt. Jim Klopfer - Sarasota