Shallow Water Fishing
Thanks for discovering the home of Quiet Waters, a specialized flats fishing guide service based out of Sarasota, Florida. If your interest or passion involves the finer things like fly fishing or using light tackle with artificial baits to target inshore fish, then this may be the shallow water guided experience you are seeking.
The shallow flats and clear water around Sarasota offer unique opportunities for serious anglers during the day. Snook, redfish, and seatrout are the main inshore gamefish we target on the flats. In Sarasota, tarpon are a great option for much of the year. Quiet Waters offers a variety of sight fishing trips in shallow water that are specifically designed for anglers that love to hunt fish.
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Fishing Blog Posts
Big Seatrout are Around
Water temperatures are ticking up in Sarasota Bay and the very shallow flats are a fun place to be right now. There is a healthy presence of large seatrout in skinny water. They've been either loosely grouped together staking out ambush points near potholes on sandy...
February Night Fishing has been Strong
The tides around the new moon in February produced some very good night fishing in the 'Alley. Glass minnow pattern flies remain the ticket, but we're now starting to see more and more shrimp wash through the lights, so shrimp patterns should become en vogue soon.Matt...





