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

Tampa Bay - South Shore - This past week saw plenty of wind and more than a little smoke on the Southshore of Tampa Bay. You had to pick your days but early in the week Capt. Billy Jordan and I found some hot fishing for grouper trolling deep diving plugs over rock piles arou more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - Bring it on! Is the weather ever going to get back to normal? That seems to be the question of the year! I know it’s nice when the weather isn’t to hot, but I’m ready for it to get back to normal. Hurricane season is just around the corner more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Big Cobia Caught-Tarpon Elusive May 1st started out strong with Capt. Bill Miller of “Hooked On Fishing” TV show and Mickey Smith of Oak Hill hospital. Sometimes the pressure gets intense when the cameras are rolling especially if the catching is more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Tampa Bay - South Shore - The full moon and murky water made for poor fishing this past week at a time of year when you would expect the action to be hot. Not the case from most of the anglers and captains I talked to, and certainly not in my own experience. Things should ret more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - What’s biting these days? or what’s not biting may be a better question? It’s that time when everything explodes on the fishing scene. The water temps have suddenly risen and with that new schools of fish have started moving in. The water temps a more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Sarasota and Venice - Capt. Rick Grassett’s Fishing Report for 4/22 through 5/4/2007 Anglers fishing with me on the Snook Fin-Addict, out of CB’s Saltwater Outfitters on Siesta Key, caught and released trout, reds, snook, Spanish mackerel, bluefish, tripletail and barr more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Tampa Bay Fishing Report - It's over but just started! It doesn’t get much better!!! Well, that is both the weather and the fishing! We’ve had to do a little more work to catch some of the fish lately because the tides last week weren’t the best. Over all, we managed to cat more...
Capt. TJ Stewart - Tampa Bay

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - May is a Great Month for Fishing on the Gulf of Mexico If asked to choose one single descriptive word to characterize just how good the recreational fishing is along Florida’s Southwest Coastline during the month of May, without hesitation the w more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Warm Spring Ushers in Early Season for Permit This past winter was one of the warmest I can remember. On our Gulf fishing charters the king mackerel have been hitting since last fall. This is some what unusual due to the fact that the kings gen more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Tampa Bay - South Shore - A week of high winds and cool temperatures made for some tough fishing on Tampa Bay’s Southshore. Water clarity was murky, and water temps dropped a couple of degrees and the bite suffered accordingly. On Tuesday I tried to find some redfish on th more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay