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

Tampa Bay Slams Easy To Come By! - Let's talk about some more tarpon fishing! We competed in tournament three of six of the Professional Tarpon Tournament Series last weekend in Boca Grande, FL. We fought fish for most of the three hours of the tournament, but we didn't get any real more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Snook inside and out - Sunday morning was a challenge, getting bait was tuff! What's up with that? Before a charter I allow an hour to gather bait before meeting my clients. Chumming and only getting pinfish was frustrating as I also wanted a live well full of white baits. more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

Slamming Sammy - Saturday's trip was simple; fish lower Tampa Bay for a grand slam snook, redfish and trout. My plan was simple as well, bait at 6 am, pick up my angler at 730 and start on the nearby beaches for snook. With Sammy from Washington DC onboard we made th more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

Sarasota Tarpon Fishing is Hot - Anglers fishing with me on the Snook Fin-Addict, out of CB's Saltwater Outfitters on Siesta Key, had good action with tarpon the past couple of weeks. Tarpon schools have been plentiful in the coastal gulf off Sarasota. Some tarpon schools were as la more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Tampa Bay Redfish Dreams - I had a dream that came true recently. One in which the redfish were so big that we would end the day with no keepers on ice. That dream came true last month. In 14 charters in May we had the grand total of one keeper redfish. We had two charte more...
Capt. Little Jim Fesperman - Tampa Bay

Red Snapper on the Charter Boat Gulf Grouper - 1 June Red Snapper are in season American Red Snapper are one of the most delicious fish available to anglers in the Gulf of Mexico west of Hernando Beach. To the surprise of many anglers these fish are not hard to catch once you find them. Most more...
Capt. Rick Rodriguez - Hernando Beach

Homosassa Fishing! - Friends: The weather is getting warmer and the Homosassa fishing is heating up! Lots of different species being CAUGHT as the Gulf water temperature reaches 80 degrees, with Tarpon, Snook, Redfish, Speckled Trout, Spanish Mackerel, Cobia and Groupe more...
Capt. "Red Ed" Brennan - Homosassa

Cobia, Tarpon, and Spanish Mackerel Make the Show - It would appear that the rainy season is a month early this year. Fishing has been good whenever the weather permits it, but that has not been very often for the past few weeks. The grouper bite is still hot by all accounts. Capt. Tom Rinehart to more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Tarpon on Fly - Tarpon fishing got off to a slow start this week. We saw more and more fish as the week progressed. Fish were showing well on the beach, but conditions were not favorable for fishing out there. Stan from St. Pete boated his first tarpon on fly o more...
Capt. Nick Angelo - Tampa Bay

Snook in the Mangroves - The late afternoon high tide has snook feeling comfortable and actively attacking white baits. Summer time high tides of 3' bring water deep back into the mangroves, these high tides makes for great snook fishing. There are many options for catching more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay