Fishing Reports by Capt. Jim Klopfer

Sarasota Fishing Report Capt Jim Klopfer 4/19/2014 - I ran charters every day this week, and despite breezy conditions, charters were fairly successful, including quite a few decent trout. The wind and dirty water (caused by the wind churning up the sand) made for more challenging conditions than we more...
Capt. Jim Klopfer - Sarasota

Sarasota Fishing Report Capt Jim Klopfer 4/12/2014 - I had quite a diverse week of charters, a couple of family trips in Sarasota Bay, a fly fishing charter, and a freshwater bass fishing charter. Weather continued to be an issue this past week as another severe front moved through the area. Monday w more...
Capt. Jim Klopfer - Sarasota

Sarasota Fishing Report CVapt Jim klopfer 4/5/2014 - The sheepshead bite continues to be fantastic throughout the area! Docks, bridges, and rocky ledges are holding good numbers of these tasty saltwater panfish. Clients have also been catching a lot of small mangrove snapper, with the occasional nice more...
Capt. Jim Klopfer - Sarasota

Sarasota Fishing Report Capt Jim Klopfer 3/29/2014 - Sheepshead were definitely the savior on my charters this week. We have had quite a bit of unsettled weather with wind and rain of late. This results in dirty water, which means the wind has the sand all stirred up. Most fish do not like this, b more...
Capt. Jim Klopfer - Sarasota

Sarasota Fishing Report Capt Jim Klopfer 3/22/2014 - Sheepshead continued to bite well this week on live and frozen shrimp, providing action and dinners for clients. Plenty of ladyfish were landed on the deep flats at the Radio Tower, Marker # 5, and Bird Key flats using jigs and shrimp. Clients did more...
Capt. Jim Klopfer - Sarasota

Sarasota fishing report Capt Jim klopfer 3/15/2014 - Clients caught a wide variety of species on charters this week. The two techniques we used were fishing live shrimp under docks and casting jigs and live shrimp over the deep grass flats. Speckled trout, silver trout, Spanish mackerel, jack crevell more...
Capt. Jim Klopfer - Sarasota

Sarasota Fishing Report Capt Jim Klopfer 3/8/2014 - I started off the week with a productive Myakka River fishing charter with Mike White from Illinois. We boated 3 nice snook in the 25 range, a small fish and mike landed a gorgeous 33 fish! That's why we fish the river; there is an opportunity to more...
Capt. Jim Klopfer - Sarasota

Sarasota Fishing Report Capt Jim klopfer 3/1/2014 - I had another diverse week of fishing on my charters this week, both in Sarasota Bay and in the Myakka River. Spanish mackerel and sheepshead continued to lead the way with some nice mangrove snapper, red and gag grouper, black drum, speckled trout, more...
Capt. Jim Klopfer - Sarasota

Sarasota Fishing Report Capt Jim Klopfer 2/22/2014 - I had another diverse week of fishing charters, 2 in Sarasota Bay, 1 in Nokomis, and 3 Myakka River trips. Sheepshead, big mangrove snapper, and nice-sized Spanish mackerel pleased anglers this week on saltwater charters, Marina Jacks, middlegrounds more...
Capt. Jim Klopfer - Sarasota

Sarasota Fishing Report Capt Jim Klopfer 2/15/2014 - Well, our winter pattern returned on charters this week. Gorgeous weather early, then a severe front moved through mid-week shutting things down. Before the front, action was steady both on the deep grass flats and around docks near both Big Sara more...
Capt. Jim Klopfer - Sarasota