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

Tampa Bay Tarpon Are Back! - The million dollar question has been answered! The tarpon are finally here, and they are big. After fishing for tarpon on a handful of trips, we finally hooked several. The first tarpon that we hooked weighed over 175lbs. Unfortunately, the large more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Kingfish are Here! - Finally, at long last the spring king mackerel run has arrived to South West Florida. Over this past week, we managed some decent catches of both king and Spanish mackerels. This is great news for area anglers, as mackerels offer some of the fastest more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

TAMCO Grand Slam Tournament - Friday I had the pleasure of fishing the 2009 TAMCO Foundation annual Grand Slam Fishing Tournament benefitting The Children's Home and The Coalition to Salute Americas Heroes. You can still help, please take a moment and visit www.tamcofoundation.or more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

Big Trout Bite - In Captains school we are told it's not if you fall in but when you fall in. Bait on the bridge today was far under the overhang, my tower is too tall to get under and get in where the bait was holding. Captain Bret Gamrot of On Shore Off Shore Magaz more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

Grouper Country, Hernando Beach Report - Charter Boat Gulf Grouper Fishing Report Location: Hernando Beach Fla, Grouper Country Gag Groupers and Kingfish are making our trips allot of fun. Thanks to the abundance of Gag Grouper in the area we are experiencing non-stop fishing fun more...
Capt. Rick Rodriguez - Hernando Beach

Big Trout Tampa Bay - In Captains school we are told it's not if you fall in but when you fall in. Bait on the bridge today was far under the overhang, my tower is too tall to get under and get in where the bait was holding. Captain Bret Gamrot of On Shore Off Shore Magaz more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

A Multitude Of Fish To Choose From - With the weather heating up, so is the fishing. Redfish are in big numbers. Fish from 26 to 35 inches have been the norm. They have moved onto the flats, staging on sand points and oyster bars. Scaled sardines and small pinfish have invaded the flats more...
Capt. Craig Lahr - Clearwater

Snook Bite Heats Up - Two good things happened last week. Some bait showed up on the flats outside the Cockroach Bay boat ramp and there was a big school of redfish roaming the shallows south of the Spoil Island at Port Manatee. The bait was there too, but it was nothi more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Easter Sunday - Easter Sunday morning was clear unlike Saturday's pea soup. It was a surreal run to the Skyway Bridge under the moonlight. White bait was easily netted; in fact I was way ahead of schedule as everything went smoothly. With time to spare I ran back to more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

Spring Run! - The spring run is on and it doesn't get much better than this! Yesterday with the wind gusting over twenty it was necessary to anchor the boat so that we could fish the middle ground grass flats. We caught a mixed bag with plenty of nice fish coming more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota