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

Tampa Bay Tarpon Fishing Report - Tampa Bay Tarpon Report Tarpon season is officially here. This is my favorite time of year the time the southern migration rolls into the Tampa Bay area. Tarpon fishing is good in March and April in these parts for resident Tarpon and a few earl more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Pompano showing up in Sarasota! - Anglers fishing with me caught a wide variety of species this week. Spanish mackerel, pompano, speckled trout, bluefish. jack crevelle, snook, redfish, bonnethead sharks, bluefish, flounder mangrove snapper, and ladyfish were all caught on charters more...
Capt. Jim Klopfer - Sarasota

Hernando Beach - Awesome Fishing Action In Hernando Beach Fishing in and around Hernando Beach is going off with out a hitch. We have Tarpon in the local waters, cobia on the flats and rock piles, redfish schools all over the place, trout just about ever more...
Capt. Josh Fritz - Hernando Beach

FRLA Tournament - The Florida Restaurant and Lodging association was held May 3. Captain Steven picked up his 4 anglers at Logger Head Marina and headed to a no motor zone grass flat area for trout. The plan was simple trout first thing then redfish then over to Tamp more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

Some crazy Tampa Bay tarpon fishing! - Fish are producing great action in Tampa Bay waters. If you want to catch fish, now is a good time to do it. You can start the day early and catch a 100 lb tarpon while watching the sun rise, you can sneak back in the mangroves and catch snook an more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Tarpon time - If you are into tarpon fishing now is the time.The bite at the Sunshine Skyway is going off. Some boats are reporting as many as fourteen bites in a mornings fishing! I have not got back out to the reefs in the last week because of high winds. Tu more...
Capt. Rick Gross - Anna Maria

Steady action near Siesta Key! - Fishing was steady this week, especially mid week as a front was approaching. The flats and edges in the Yacht Club Channel and around Bird Key produced Spanish mackerel, speckled trout, flounder, pompano, bluefish, ladyfish, sharks, and jack crevel more...
Capt. Jim Klopfer - Sarasota

Wind blown Tampa Bay - With a last minute cancellation Captain Steven decided to do a little fishing himself. My wife Jackie requested some spotted sea trout fillets so that was an order I had to fill! Just as the eastern sky got light I started chumming on a grass flat more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

Good Catch & Release snook and Tarpon Action in Sarasota Area - The best action continues to be catch and release night snook fishing and tarpon are becoming plentiful in the coastal gulf. Anglers fishing with me on my Action Craft flats skiff the Snook Fin-Addict, out of CB's Saltwater Outfitters on Siesta Key, more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Big Fish Tampa Skyway Bridge! - Tarpon fishing at the Tampa Sunshine Skyway has really began to pick up.Tarpon in the 50-150lb range are being taken on both ends of the bridge. Most tarpon anglers have concentrated tarpon fishing on the South end shadow lines. Free-lining live thre more...
Capt. Sean Hagen - Tampa Bay