Tampa Offshore Report

The twelve-hour night snapper trips this past weekend had a really great catch of big mangrove snapper along with some nice vermillion and lane snapper, too. We had a few big mangroves in the 6-8lb range on live pinfish that rivaled the mangroves we see brought in during our 39 or 44 hour trips.

Tampa Nearshore Report

Kingfish and mackerel bite is still off the chain recently near shore. We are seeing plenty of them while trolling or flat line fishing during most any near shore trip. The hogfish bite has been a little hit and miss lately but were still catching them well when we target them on our private fishing charters, but on our 10 hours we have been going a little further from shore into deeper waters to catch those great eating and plentiful mangrove snapper we have been seeing so much of lately.

Tampa Inshore Report

Snook, pompano, and some sheepshead caught this past week around Johns Pass and the occasional mackerel too! Snook are starting to head back into the pass and onto the beaches as the water temps warm up and the bait schools show up more and more often. We are seeing most of the snook caught during the outgoing tide around the jetty and start of Madeira beach just north of the jetty using the flairhawk style jigs or large swim baits or live pinfish or big green backs. However, the snook should only become more and more prolific in our local areas and all the passes in the area as waters continue to warm and they gear up for their summer time beach front spawn.