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

Snook not fooled by the Tampa Bay "Weather Forecast"! - Just like many of you I too was fooled by weather forecasts twice this week. The weather prediction for the Tampa Bay both print, TV, NOAA and my trusty radio was spewing doom and gloom on fishing this week. On Monday the front was to roll through… more...
Capt. Little Jim Fesperman - Tampa Bay

Cold Redfish Morning - We fished the south end of Tampa Bay looking for a few redfish. I ran early to the Skyway to pickup a few greenbacks and it was the easiest bait getting I've done in a long time. Pulled up under the bridge, tied off to a piling, tossed a handful of j more...
Capt. Woody Gore - Tampa Bay

Winter Time Trout - Amazing what a difference a week makes. Warm sunny days with water temperatures approaching 70 on beautiful Tampa Bay abruptly ended Monday. Several cold fronts passing through Florida this week with evenings low temperatures in the mid to lower 40's more...
Capt. Steven Markovich - Tampa Bay

Grouper Country, Hernando Beach Report - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: Charter Boat Gulf Grouper Fishing Report Location: Hernando Beach Fla, Grouper Country Grouper fishing is nonstop action, 100's of short Grouper released daily. The water temperature is around 68 degrees. G more...
Capt. Rick Rodriguez - Hernando Beach

Hot winter time Tampa Bay Snook and Trout action - Well the tides are playing havoc with our Red's fishing last couple of weeks. Not only are they scattered across the flats on high tides in small two to ten fish schools but with the negative tides many of the traditional flats that some of the Red' more...
Capt. Little Jim Fesperman - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report...January 2009 - Well, it was inevitable that we would eventually get some cooler weather and with the onset of January, the weather has finally caught up with us. The hot fishing and hot weather we were experiencing through December has cooled off and our fishing h more...
Capt. Rob Salimbene - Tampa Bay

Winter Fishing is Herel - Water temperature continues to hold in the high 60s and low 70s, and that's much warmer than usual. In general, it makes for good fishing and that's been the case so far this year. On my latest trip with Mike Strickland and Marc Glass we went across more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Inshore report - Bulldog Fishin -Hernando Beach - The inshore bite in Hernando Beach is heating up! Redfish, trout, and sheephead are being caught throughout the area. Centipede, Bayport, Aripeka, and Fillman's Bayou served up good size reds this past month. They are inside and at the points of cree more...
Capt. Keith Tomlinson - Hernando Beach

Cold Front Makes Them Eat - Ran a trip yesterday out of Clearwater and it started out great, the winds where calm to 5 mph and the fish where eating every shrimp that hit the water. After an hour and a half of steady catching the weather began changing, the winds picked up and more...
Capt. Woody Gore - Tampa Bay

What a year both Past and Present. - What a year! 2008 was definitely one for the record books. There were record amounts of Redfish, Speckled Trout, Sheephead, Spanish Mackerel, Bonita, Grouper and Sharks all roaming our local area flats. Most of these fish were larger, roamed the a more...
Capt. Kyle Messier - Crystal River