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

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Southshore Tampa Bay Fishing Report for Sept. 09 Tropical Storm Henri did not have any adverse effect on Tampa Bay fishing. Most of the heavy rain fell to the south of us, and we had anglers fishing every day despite weather warnings. Remarkably, more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Plenty of Offshore Fishing Choices in September One of the major reasons I love living along the west coast of Florida is the large variety of fishing opportunities we have available on the Gulf of Mexico. There is rarely a waking hour that more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Sarasota and Venice - Florida Keys & Sarasota, FL Fishing Report for 9/1 through 9/8/2003 I spent most of the past week in Islamorada in the Florida Keys participating in the Islamorada-Sarasota Shootout Fishing Tournament. The tournament is a fun, family type fishing more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Southshore Tampa Bay Fishing Report for Sept. 03 2003 There was a pretty good redfish bite going on up and down the Southshore flats from Apollo Beach to the Skyway Bridge up until last Friday, but it went silent for the weekend. The shutdown was more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Sarasota and Venice - Sarasota & Terra Ceia Bay, FL Fishing Report for 8/24 through 9/1/2003 Anglers on the Snook Fin-Addict had good action during the past week in Sarasota Bay. Anglers caught reds along sand bars and mangrove shorelines and trout on deeper grass fla more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Homosassa Bull Redfish Red Hot Redfish action was as good as it gets recently. John Euart of Atlanta and friends caught and released 21 redfish last Saturday except for their keepers of 26 inches. Two triple hook-ups and several doubles made it more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Tampa Bay - South Shore - Shell Point Bait and Tackle Fishing Report August 25 2003 Shell Point Bait and Tackle Fishing Report August 25 2003 The big news on the Southshore flats this week is that the redfish are schooled up and the bite has been hot. One of the local more...
Capt. Fred Everson - Tampa Bay

Sarasota and Venice - Southwest Florida Fishing Report for 8/17 through 8/23/2003 Anglers on the Snook Fin-Addict caught a variety of fish during the past week. Snook, redfish, tarpon and trout were caught and released on a variety of lures in lower Tampa Bay, Sarasota more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - They just had lockjaw! It has been several weeks of on/off Redtide and heavy rain with flooding conditions that caused a lot of run-off into the bay. The wind stayed out of the SW and brought us early morning thundershowers, which is not the norm more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Sarasota and Venice - Fly and spin anglers on the Snook Fin-Addict caught a variety of fish during the past week. Snook, trout and jack crevalle were caught and released on a variety of lures and flies. The best action was with snook in the evening near Venice. I spent more...
Capt. Rick Grassett - Sarasota