The focus of fishing around the Sarasota, FL area really shifted over the last month as the summer heat came on strong in June. The heat has really slowed down the fishing on the shallow flats. Getting on the water around sunrise and getting off by 10 AM produced the...
Flats fishing in and around the Sarasota, Florida area has been very productive over the past few weeks. We’re easing our way into summer weather patterns. There are currently great opportunities on the shallow flats for snook, redfish, and seatrout. There are...
Fishing around Sarasota, Florida has been good. Anglers fishing with me over the last few weeks caught snook, speckled seatrout, redfish, jack crevalles, and other flats species. We fished as far north as lower Tampa Bay and south down to Charlotte Harbor. Wind has...
We had a couple of cool firsts while fishing the flats of Sarasota, FL in the last few days. On Friday, Jim Tansey, from the Chicago area, caught his first snook and it was a good one. He was using a green Aquadream ADL series spoon; one of the hottest baits out there...
The shallow flats have come to life over the last few weeks. Snook, redfish, seatrout and even cobia have been present on the flats. Earlier in the month, clear water and no wind made conditions on the flats challenging. Long casts, far away from the boat, were...