Western Region

Fishing around Tampa Bay is starting to take off. The water is warming up and baitfish are getting more plentiful. Drifting the shallow grass flats in 1-4 feet of water, casting jigs in rootbeer or white have been producing Sea Trout from 12-22 inches. Redfish ...full report

Winter Fishing I would like to start this report with and apology to the readers of this site. I have been a bit lax in writing fishing reports this winter. Sorry about that all! I am finding good schools of Red Fish throughout the harbor. On sunny ...full report

By Captain Jazz 01/07/08 Winter seems to come and go. After a front, it's cold for a few days then we get a rapid warm up and the fish start chewing again. Redfish and Seatrout are not that cold sensitive like Snook being a sub-tropical ...full report

Br-br-br! Baby it’s cold outside. Here on the Nature Coast, old man winter gave us a preview of what is ahead for the next three months. Right now, the cold air moves through quickly, lasting just a few days, then warms up to our normal temperatures. ...full report

Wednesday November 21st, 2007 Timing is everything... lately. Have you ever told a joke that would have been funny two minutes ago, but at the moment you chose to blurt the joke out, it was too late to garner a chuckle? Well... I had bad timing ...full report

The October winds have come which moves the Grouper in closer. The bite has been excellent with an average of 100 bites a day with 5 – 15 keepers. We’ve also been catching lots of Key West Grunts which are a tasty pan fish. The Kingfish bite is on and ...full report

Fort Desoto is known for a large amount of fishing but also for a large amount of boaters. Alot of the fishing has been spooked off toward channel dropoffs because of this. The best spots here are to go to 100 feet to the side of a channel drift with the ...full report

The water temps have been resonably the same and spring break is coming. The Speckled Trout and Silver Trout in hurricane pass are biting on shrimp live or artificial. The beaches are getting packed full of people and are starting to get overfished so find ...full report

This fish was caught Saturday Feb. 10th 2008 at approximately 12:40 am. This is the first documented Sawfish in Tampa Bay in history. It was a mature male, estimated to be approximately 12 years old. It was caught by Wayne Slusser and Keith "Bulldog" Thomas ...full report

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The Bass Fishing was very slow today on the Lake. Hot ....Caught 12 lbs of fish on watermelon red stick baits fished weightless, deep and slow. Water at Public Boat Ramp is shallow and requires that you get in water to launch your boat off trailer and ...full report

Inshore the Snook have been hot during the outgoing high tide with live baits and a light dusting of chum. Catch & Release mandatory. Anglers are seeing Cobia, Tarpon & Spanish Mackerel as well. It seems that the reds have gone for the season. ...full report

Reports of some redfish inshore along the southern part of the region are coming in, Look for them when the tide is in, throw live mullet or a shad or a bucktail artificial. Tarpon are all along the coast just off the beach in the mornings, and when the day ...full report