Florida Fishing Regions

What's Biting Now

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Kayak Fishing Biscayne Bay

Florida Sportsman Member: frankthetank As we paddled out through snapper creek, I trolled a soft plastic and got slammed by a monster snook.

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West Central Offshore Action

Florida Sportsman Member: flatsrunna Feels like we threw back 100 plus fish today. Bite was sick.

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South Offshore Action

Florida Sportsman member: miami mutton Fro got hit first and up came a 28 inch black, minutes later tony pulls up a 17 inch mutton.

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Big Bend Offshore Action

Florida Sportsman member: fishy tales Once there we started pulling grouper in the boat left and right, them darn endangered gags were everywhere and LARGE, hated to have to throw them back.

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Ten Thousand Islands Inshore Action

Florida Sportsman Member: asleepatthereel I love how you can tell right off the bat whether it’s a snook…awesome day and great memory!

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Southeast Offshore Action

Florida Sportsman member: ChadJ55 Once we got the lines in, a few flying fish made an appearance and had the newbies in absolute awe that fish could indeed actually fly.

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Keys Inshore Action

Florida Sportsman Member: action88 Well, May has been busy, I think everyone in Islamorada has been fishing hard and the fishing has been good.

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East Central Inshore Action

Florida Sportsman Member: angler18 Headed out with my buddy Bill in his boat today to look for some fish for a few hours.

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Southwest Inshore Action

Florida Sportsman Member: binder077 Headed over to the shoreline with downed tree stumps at Big Carlos Pass expecting to catch some snook.

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Keys Offshore Action

Florida Sportsman member: CaptBill After 10 minutes the school could be seen and we boated several schoolies on pitch bait and lures.

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Big Bend Inshore Action

Florida Sportsman Member: troutman57 We moved around points with good flow and deep water near by and picked away finding a great late afternoon redfish bite.

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West Central Inshore Action

Florida Sportsman member: Trophy-Trips Snook bite has been solid day or night, and talk about quality fish this year. Bull reds hit or miss, tide and moon dependant.

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Grouper Fishing and Spearing

Florida Sportsman member: SnookMagnet Headed offshore from Marco with JoeSnook on Saturday looking for a limit of red groupers and we were not disappointed.

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Southeast Inshore Action

Florida Sportsman member: snookcook As evening turned into dark, I hit up one of my night spots. Toss up a live shrimp and bam! We are on!

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Northwest Inshore Action

Florida Sportsman Member: reel cowboy Most of these fish were caught out of Fenholloway but long runs between points, bars and creeks.

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Northeast Offshore Action

Florida Sportsman member: benchmark Had 10 fish in the first 1 hour of fishing and ended up with 25 for the day.

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Apalachicola Catfish Tournament

Florida Sportsman member: CatHunter A 33.5 lb Flathead won the first place prize for largest fish, and 177 lbs took the 1st place for most poundage.

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Northeast Inshore Action

Florida Sportsman member: Bigchocolatelab At this point I’m thinking lets ride but my buddy states, “Hey man you need to match the hatch”.

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Big Boy Fishing Team in Bimini

It was a bit slow at first but then it picked up and we caught yelloweye snappers, queen snapper, a mystic grouper, big amberjacks that were released and sharks too.

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Fly Reds and Tarpon

Florida Sportsman member: Capt. Gregg McKee I was casting an 8wt fly rod and a 3/0 deer hair slider since I thought spinning tackle would make too much noise.

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Ten Thousands Islands Offshore Action

Florida Sportsman Member: JBowles In the end we ended up going to our proven fishing spots and they produced fish like they normally do.

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Panhandle Offshore Action

Florida Sportsman member: crcattypc About that time, a nice sized cow fin swims up to the boat by herself. She was smelling the chum but not eating it.

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Southwest Offshore Action

Florida Sportsman member: larrywitt Decided to run out to catch one of Mary’s favorite eating fish, porgys and snapper, 16 miles out, circled to find the right bottom and set the hook.

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South Inshore Action

Florida Sportsman member: flatsranger I had a couple of legitimate shots at some bones but managed to spook the first set and quickly lose a fish on the second set.

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East Central Offshore Action

Florida Sportsman member: Fool’s Gold Ran out to 100 feet and found some scattered weeds and a small rip, put the baits in and was pretty busy for about an hour.

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Panhandle Inshore Action

Florida Sportsman Member: KayakMacGyver Went 9 for 9 this a.m. on Bull Reds in the pass. What a BEAUTIFUL morning. We got to the pass just before the the wind kicked up (6:30 a.m.), and it only took about 10 minutes to get the first fish on.

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