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

Hernando Beach inshore report - The weather this past week was beautiful giving us anglers a chance to get out on the water and wet a line. All the recent rain has cooled the gulf waters a little. This drop in temperature has fish in our area on a feeding frenzy. The best bite is s more...
Capt. Keith Tomlinson - Hernando Beach

Scalloping in Homosassa - Scalloping in Homosassa Report Date: July 10, 2009 Homosassa has been the epicenter of Scallop Madness as it's been all about Scallops since the first of July. Combined with the 4th of July, being on a Saturday this year, hordes of revel more...
Capt. "Red Ed" Brennan - Homosassa

Redfish, Trout and Blues - West wind continues to plague fishing around the area, either forcing cancellation or forcing us to the west side of Sarasota Bay and surrounding waters. When we have been able to get out, we've been concentrating around Buttonwood Harbor in north more...
Steve Gibson - Sarasota

pure heat - Pure Heat (July 2007) With our recent hot temperatures and water temps hovering at 90* in the Gulf, and mid 90's in the backwaters, you'd think fishing would be slow. But on the contrary, fishing is just as hot as the weather. Tarpon have been m more...
Capt. Craig Lahr - Clearwater

Birthday Slam plus Tarpon - With Saturdays charter rescheduled Captain Steven decided to spend his Birthday on the water. Today my goal was simple hit all my hot spots in search of Tampa Bay Slam. To achieve the grand slam you need to catch a snook, redfish and trout in the sam more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

Inundated with red snapper - July 11, 2009 The offshore waters have been inundated with red snapper for the past month! Look for them around most of the deep artificial reefs and good bottom. Light tackle with a small jig and tipped with shrimp has worked very well. Keeper more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Rain Delays & Good weekend outlook - Rain Rain go away! I hate starting fishing reports with weather reports but we have been in a wet and windy pattern. Most of my clients are out of state and typical have little room for rescheduling. That was the case for today's late afternoon and e more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing In The Rain! - Not only did we have a great deal of wind last week, we also had a ton of rain. Despite the wind and rain, we were still able to fish last week. Sometimes the rain can actually help instead of hinder you while fishing this time of year because it c more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Scallop Season is Here!!! - Scallop season has finally rolled around and for most Nature Coast anglers this can only mean one thing. Dinner will be Good Tonight!! During most days in July we have been spending our mornings chasing around Redfish, Trout, Sharks, Tarpon, and more...
Capt. Kyle Messier - Crystal River

Hernando Beach Grouper Fishing near Tampa, Orlando and Disney - Hernando Beach Gulf Grouper Report Warm weather equates to great fishing West of Hernando Beach. This time of the year our area reefs, and ledges are teaming with bait fish. Schools of scaled sardines, Threadfin Herring, Cigar minnows, and Ballyho more...
Capt. Rick Rodriguez - Hernando Beach