Tampa Bay Fishing Reports and Gulf of Mexico Fishing Trip Reports from Capt. John and Island Lure Fishing Charters. Looking to see what the fishing action is like here in sunny Tampa? Below are photos and reports of the local hot bite and what we have been catching.
Had an awesome day fishing with my dad and a couple of good friends. We starting out the day seeing 2 Cobia but lost them on a channel edge. Then caught a nice triple tail. We ended up going wading today and had non stop redfish and snook action. Biggest snook today was 41″ and redfish up to 30″. Awesome day with tons of action. Just scouting on my day off and had to go see my pets. Book your trips. Spring time bite is awesome right now!
Had a great day scouting for our Tampa Bay Inshore species yesterday and managed to stumble upon a Cobia. Well I was unprepared and had no rod or reel. We used a spool of 30lb mono and a piece of my shirt and a boat plug for a little weight and we managed to put this 30lb Cobia in the boat. Fun times and awesome handline fight!
I had John today all by himself. He’s caught tons of redfish and trout but no snook. So we had to make that happen and wanted to catch a big Jack too. We got em both. Good fisherman and great guy to be around. Can’t wait to do it again. We caught over 25+ snook and a bunch of big jacks. Book your trips!
Awssome day today with non stop action on both morning and afternoon trips! Had Jenny and family from Lakeland down for spring break and caught a bunch of over slog reds and 30+ snook. Then had Brian and his son that had a very fun snook bite in the afternoon. More snook than they new what to do with. Bite is crazy right now. Book your trips!
Great time today with clients Rick in the morning and Mike in the afternoon. 30+ snook for both clients and jacks on light tackle. Fun trip today and good fishing. Book your trips. Bite is fire!
Had an epic day today with my clients Chris and his buddies from Ohio! We decided that we wanted to go for a big snook! Well needless to say we made that happen with Chris getting into the 40″ club. It Was an awesome bite. Then we went and caught 30+ snook and some big jacks mixed in. Then I had Mike and his 2 sons on the afternoon trip and caught an inshore slam for the boys. It seemed like today was all over slot fish. But had a blast. The fishing is incredible right now. Book your trips. Tarpon season coming up too and spots are limited.
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Snook Snook and more Snook! The bite has been incredible. It’s so awesome to see your clients catch there first saltwater species and now there hooked. I had Terry and family down from Wisconsin and they wanted to catch snook! Let’s just say they dusted them! We caught 40-50 of them and some trout to throw on the grill! Awesome trip! Book your trips
Had an awesome day today with good clients Gary and son Evan. We ended up catching a bunch of snook and trout. Got a good slot fish at 30″ The bite continues to get better everyday. Book your trips
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The past couple days have been EPIC! The fishing is so insane right now. We have been setting my personal best for a full day snook trip with over a 100. Not stop action. It’s been so fun to see these guys have a blast. Had Shane and his 2 sons that extended there six hour trip into full days cause they were having so much fun. And Matt and his wife Kelly today with there twin girls having a blast. With all of them catching there first snook and the twins with there first fish. Awesome weather and awesome fishing/ clients makes for an awesome day! Book your trips. It’s only going to get better!
The past couple days have been on fire. Spring is definately here and the bite is going off! Snook are going crazy. And big trout all over as well. Book your trips.
