Fishing Reports by Capt. Mike Locklear

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Redfish Love Pinfish in Homosassa The report below is current. Look for Recapping Homosassa Tarpon Action Part 3 in a future report. Aunt Curly Locklear Holgate and husband Ed of Atlanta/Homosassa stopped by the house to visit last Sunday with more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Recapping Homosassa Tarpon Action - Part 2 If you read my last report you would know that I recapping the Homosassa 2000 tarpon season on the fly rod. I love catching fish on the fly rod and well, big tarpon just happen to be here in May and Ju more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Recapping Homosassa Tarpon Action - Part 1 My apologies goes out to the readers who look for a weekly report from me. During tarpon season, I get tight lipped for fear of too much company on the flats. Another reason is that I like concentrat more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Giant Silver King Tarpon Lives To Spawn Capt. Mike Locklear and Yancy Stribling III of Atlanta, an experienced fly fisherman, came face to face with a giant silver king. The fish was bigger than any Mike had caught and “definitely the biggest more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Big Homosassa Tarpon Wins Freedom My wife Sherry, wrote this fishing report. Mike and Yancy Stribling III of Atlanta, an experienced fly fisherman, came face to face with a giant silver king. The fish was bigger than any Mike had caught and “ more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Flyfishing for Tarpon With less than a half inch of rain since January, the gulf waters have been extremely clear and have made spotting tarpon very easy. With very little cloud cover so far this month, the glare has been very minimal. Homosas more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Homosassa Fishing is Weather Perfect I can tell you at this point, is to come and go fishing because it is good. Homosassa Bay is chalked full of trout, redfish, cobia and many other salt water fish. I am so tired from catching fish and guidin more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Reds are always fun action on Homosassa flats Sam Shine and his friends fish with me 6 or 8 times a year. He always try to pick the best tides so we do not have an excuse as to why the fish do not bite. Just recently Sam and his neighbors came more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - April is Cobia month in Homosassa Some exciting fishing on the Homosassa flats is when the cobia follow the sting rays. Today one of my fishers caught two on light tackle. The fish were not very big as cobia standards go, but they were plenty f more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa

Fishing Report for Homosassa, Florida - Are Cold Fronts Good For Fishing In the last week or two the fishing has been very good. Grouper catches have been phenomenal. Although, I do not regularly fish for grouper I have had several nice catches. Lately, several clients caught a Hamme more...
Capt. Mike Locklear - Homosassa