Florida
Fishing Reports
Panhandle, West
Central, Central, Southwest Florida and Bahamas
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Florida
Fishing reports are provided by professional Fishing Charter
Captains
and Fishing Guides throughout the State of Florida, The Keys,
and Bahamas.
Whether you prefer fishing salt water, freshwater, inshore or
offshore, flats,
back country or flyfishing, for bass, trout, marlin or
tarpon,
you'll find what's happening on the water here.
Click on region name below to see
fishing reports for that area.
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Major Cities By Region |
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The
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Jacksonville
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Titusville
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Vero Beach
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Miami Beach
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Panhandle |
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Marco Island
Naples
Ft. Myers
Bahamas
Abaco
Central
America
Hawaii
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Boca Grande
Venice
Sarasota
Bradenton
St. Petersburg
Tampa Bay area
Clearwater
New Port Richey
Pine Island
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Homosassa
Spgs
Chambers Island
Cedar Key
Suwanee
Steinhatche
Carrabelle
Apalachicola
Port St. Joe
Panama City
Destin
Ft. Walton Bch
Pensacola
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Gainesville
Palatka
Ocala
Deland
Leesburg
Orlando
Kissimmee
Lakeland
Winter Haven
Lake Wales
Sebring
Okeechobee
Belle Glade |
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Fishing Reports -- SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
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Captain
Becky Campbell ~ Everglades City, Florida
Rather Be
Fishing Charters
Ph# 239-695-2029 Cell# 727-709-1375
email: captainbecky709@aol.com
Fishing Report for Jan. 2012
FANTASTIC
FISHING AND BEAUTIFUL WEATHER
The fishing has been fantastic for the last
few weeks, even the week the wind was
blowing up to 25 mph the fishing was good.
For the last few days the wind has laid back
down finally and it is a beautiful
day....high of 76 with easterly winds of
about 5-10 knots...the rest of the week is
suppose to be 2-7 knots...wow, can you
believe this weather.
Anyway, we are catching a good mix bag of
fish. Which is typical this time of year.
Plenty of action on the flats for pompano,
trout, bluefish, ladyfish, mackerel and
flounder. Around the islands we are catching
a nice number of snook, redfish, jewfish,
jacks, ladyfish and snapper. We also caught
a 23 inch Gag Grouper in the Islands. I had
2 couples fish with me a couple days ago, so
we called the girls against the guys. Well,
guess who won that day...The girls with a
score of 24 to 23(not to bad for a half day
charter). We had a hard time keeping track
the day before so this day they brought a
pencil and pad to keep score with. We
actually caught 16 snook and Barb caught the
biggest one (snook). These fish weren't
monsters, but they are a lot of fun
especially when they wanted to see who (guys
or girls) could catch and land the most
fish. Roberta caught the biggest fish over
all being a 49 inch bonnet-head shark. She
had a lot of fun catching that one. The guys
did a good job keeping up with the girls and
of course Jim says "I caught the best
eating fish" with his 23" gag
grouper. Chuck was having fun just being in
the game catching fish and away from work.
Remember that fishing experience that you
have been thinking and dreaming about, come
on and pick up the phone, give me.... Capt
Becky Campbell a call........ at
239-695-2029 and reserve that date cause the
fishing is great and the weather is
fabulous.
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FishSkinner
Charters -- Sanibel, Fort Myers, Fort Myers
Beach, Pine Island
Captain Wes Skinner
Phone # 239-851-9600 Email: Captain
Wes
www.FishSkinner.net
September
September
has been a great month for redfish here in
Sanibel. Redfish of all sizes have been
eating everything from white bait, pins and cut bait. I had a
family down from Wisconsin this week
who booked a fish/lunch trip. We went to
one spot and set there for hours catching red, after red, after
red. We never had to leave that one area. We then took 2 of the
fish to a restaurant
for lunch where they fried them up for us.
The weathers cooling down
and the waters not too busy this time of year, so if you can get
out on the
water and avoid these late seasonal rain showers, the
fishing’s been worth
it!
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Fishing Reports -- WEST CENTRAL, FLORIDA
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Captain Terry Frankford -- Sarasota
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Reelin & Chillin
Charters Inc.
941-228-7802 ~ e-mail - terry.frankford@verizon.net
Fishing
Report 01/04/2012 – Capt. Terry Frankford
Anglers
aboard the Reelin and Chillin enjoyed action from several
species despite the windy conditions on Sarasota Bay. On the
grass flats pompano and trout made for some great light
tackle action. Around docks sheepshead, and redfish were
cruising the barnacle covered pilings for dinner - a live
select shrimp was hard to resist. At the near shore reefs
sheepshead are showing up along with King and Spanish
mackerel. As always there are plenty of species for the kids
to enjoy, from the fast swimming/jumping ladyfish to the
weird looking lizard fish they always have a blast fishing
in the Sarasota area.
Captain's
Tip - Keep it Moving
My
clients and I head out to what I believe is going to be the
best spot for fast action, after all that's my job.
Unfortunately the fish don't always understand this; my
technique is "keep moving". I have heard that ten
percent of the fisherman catch ninety percent of the fish -
maybe so. However, I also believe that ninety percent of the
fish are in ten percent of the water. This is why I believe
in moving if the bite isn't on in the spot I'm fishing. My
rule of thumb is: Around structure, if it's been hot
recently maybe give it twenty minutes. If it's a spot that
hasn't been so hot in the recent past, only ten/fifteen
minutes - if no bite is on move. If it's a grass flat I'm
drifting, one or two passes across the grass - no bite move.
Often it seems like nothing is going to happen, a small fish
here and there - then the worst thing for me to hear from a
customer "it's just nice being out here on the
water" Ahhhh! I want to hear "my wrist
hurts". More times than often if you keep moving around
sooner or later you will hit feeding fish. A grass flat
holding pompano or trout - a dock or rocky edge holding
redfish, sheephead, or snapper ends up darkening the live
well and wrists are hurting.
Tight Lines & Good Times, Capt. Terry Frankford
Reelin
& Chillin Charters Inc.
941-228-7802
terry.frankford@verizon.net
www.charterfishingsarasota.com
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Capt. Rich Knox - Florida Gulf Coast
ABSOLUTE
FLORIDA FLATS FISHING AND TARPON FISHING CHARTERS
Phone: 727-376-8809
or toll free
1-800-890-9373
Email:
capt.richknox@verizon.net
January 13, 2012
January between the fronts !
ABSOLUTE
FLORIDA FLATS FISHING went on a
saltwater flats fishing charter on
Thursday January 12th with the
Thomas brothers, Clyde from
SanFrancisco visiting Gordon who
lives here on the west central
Florida gulf coast in Lecanto, the
brothers get together a few times a
year and usually do some inshore
flats fishing. We left the dock at 8
am. As we were a few days after the
full-moon, I had already caught a
few dozen pinfish so we’d have
some live bait, and headed south to
Clearwater to catch the beginning of
the incoming tide, we started out
fishing some deeper water drop-offs
1 with a live bait and 2 of us
throwing artificial lures so we
could cover a good piece of flats
fishing at low to incoming tide 3'
to 7' of water, the 1/4 oz. Jigs
began the action using a combination
of baitfish and shrimp imitations,
some nice Spotted Sea Trout, they
were spread out or maybe even moved
off us after catching a few, these
fish were in the upper teens to
20". So each spot would yield a
few fish then we would have to try
other options, the day turned out to
be a beautiful day, as the day
before we had winds to 35 mph gusts
and 1.2" of well needed rain,
but the air temperature was still
58* F in the morning, at Anclote
Village Marina in Tarpon Springs,
water temp was 65* F. We fished our
way back to the north with a good
incoming tide, we switched to
Berkley Jerk-shads 7"(weed
less) and mirrolure mirro-dine,
there was a little too much floating
grass so we put up the plugs! We
began to move up and onto the
fishing flats near Tarpon Springs,
the sun was up high so too could see
real-good, as was the Spotted Sea
Trout fishing, we caught our biggest
fish to 25" ,5-6 lb., at the of
the 1/2 day fishing trip, the
temperature was 74* F and the
brothers ended up with their limit
of trout, tomorrow the reinforcing
front will come through with high
winds and cooler temperatures, after
which hopefully the nice mild winter
we are having here in Florida will
continue !
Capt.
Rich Knox
ABSOLUTE
FLORIDA FLATS FISHING
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