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

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Fishing the past week was pretty darn good despite the Florida heat. It was Labor Day weekend and the Euarts and some friends were coming down from Atlanta for some trout/redfishing on Homosassa’s Nature Coast. With full moon approaching, I knew th more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Redfish, snook, Spanish mackeral, lots of trout and even some tarpon. This past week has been a fairly good one despite the heat. The early morning falling tides have made for some good snook fishing, not a lot of numbers but some of the snook we a more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Offshore Mackerel Offshore fishing for Spanish mackerel is still the best action. The artificial reefs (M) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 have consistently been alive with mackerel, little tunny, barracuda and sharks. In fact, half of the mackerel and tunny t more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - August Fishing on the Gulf can be Hot! August can offer up some great fishing as long as weather conditions allow. With the long hot days and warm nights the warm Gulf's waters will reach their peak summer temperatures. Because of this, the short more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Before I go into the current fishing action, I have to brag on some of my clients from my July base up in the Big Bend along the Forgotten Coast. Of course it is always great to see the same smiling faces at The Moorings year after year. Dr. Kapla more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - This year has really been a banner year for fishing. So far this August has continued our streak. The weather has really been quite nice as far as August goes. It has been quite cool so far; mid to high eightys is not too bad. The water temp is a more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Big Spanish Large Spanish mackerel have been the main action offshore in the forty to sixty foot depths. Pulling hardware or live bait has produced mackerel in the five pound class. You can also expect to lose a few to barracuda and sharks t more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Saltwater Fishing Report for Sarasota, Florida. - Better days ahead I know it has been a while since my last report but with all the bad weather and slow fishing when we did make it out, I didn't have much to say. Unless you were running forty miles offshore, the bay fishing seemed to have a lo more...
Capt. Bob Smith - Sarasota

Venice Inlet and the Gulf of Mexico - Fishing on the Gulf in July can be Hot! Fishing out on the Gulf most of the week was actually pretty good, although strictly for those with strong sea legs. Aboard my boat Legacy we're still hooking up on some nice sized kingfish. Thursday one more...
Capt. Dave Pinkham - Venice

Tampa Bay - Saltwater - Tarpon Tarpon Tarpon, and they're still holding on strong. Tarpon fishing is still good to excellent, I'm interested to see what kind of showing we get after this full moon. I had one particular morning this past week with some regular clients of more...
Capt. Matt Ercoli - Tampa Bay