TAMPA John’s Pass FISHING REPORTSS

Warmer Water Makes Fishing Tough

This week’s fishing around the pass has been a little tougher with the warmer water, but the night bite has still been going well. We have seen the snook and redfish biting well around the docks inside Johns pass.

Capt. Dylan Hubbard·
November 9, 2019·

Inshore ·

Active Snook Bite Inshore

The snook seem to no have realized its getting cooler yet they are still pretty thick and active around our passes and local waters in the area. The flats, passes and piers still have snook loaded up around the areas.

Capt. Dylan Hubbard·
November 9, 2019·

John's Pass ·

Gag Grouper Bite Off the Chain!

This past weekend was one of the best 39 hour trips of 2019 so far! The gag grouper bite was off the chain according to our first mate Will McClure and the mangrove snapper bite was hot as well.

Capt. Dylan Hubbard·
November 9, 2019·

John's Pass ·

Strong Hogfish Bite Nearshore

Hogfish bite is going very well for us near shore right now from around 30-70ft of water on the live shrimp. We are finding them fairly consistently on our 10 hour all days and also the 5 hour half days.

Capt. Dylan Hubbard·
November 9, 2019·

Inshore ·

Madeira Beach Inshore Report

The snook bite was good again this past week, but we did see a decrease in the size of the snook hanging around the jetties, bridges and passes. Most of the larger snook seem to be cruising further back into the bays.

Capt. Dylan Hubbard·
November 9, 2019·

Inshore ·

Prolific Snook Fishing

Snook are really prolific lately from the upper bay to the beaches and from the mouth of the rivers out through the intercostal. We are finding them at night around the bridges, docks and piers especially where lights are holding the bait.

Capt. Dylan Hubbard·
November 1, 2019·

John's Pass ·

Mackerel Thick Nearshore

The mackerel are thick nearshore right now we are seeing them from the beach out to around fifteen miles from shore or more. There’s plenty of bait schools out there holding lots of aggressive and quick biting mackerel.

Capt. Dylan Hubbard·
November 1, 2019·

John's Pass ·

Active Pelagic Bite

The big news lately offshore has been the plentiful and active pelagic action. We have caught two sailfish recently, some big kingfish, a few blackfin tuna and even a big mahi mahi.

Capt. Dylan Hubbard·
November 1, 2019·

John's Pass ·

Nearshore Hogfish Bite Taking Off!

Lots of hogfish being caught lately near shore from around 30-70ft of water the hogfish bite seems to really be taking off finally. They love the live shrimp but fiddler crabs or rock shrimp work for them too.

Capt. Dylan Hubbard·
October 25, 2019·

Inshore ·

Darn Good Inshore Fishing

This week the inshore fishing has been pretty darn good with some very active and hungry snook, redfish, trout, and some tarpon around the area day and night. The passes have seen the same species very active at night before sunrise.

Capt. Dylan Hubbard·
October 10, 2019·