Bradenton Fishing Reports (March 2025)

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Fishing reports straight from our guides in Bradenton

Dillon Arsenault
St. Petersburg, Florida
Reported: 1 day ago

Dillon Arsenault St. Petersburg, Florida Reported: 1 day ago

Groupers have been chewing consistently, and they are eating everything right now—cut bait, live bait, and artificials. Speckled trout have made a comeback in the bay area, and we are seeing a lot of overslots more consistently every day! Good eating meat in the box! They are eating live pinfish, shrimp, and white bait like they have never seen them before. Big black drums are showing up in good numbers on the bridges, and they are slamming the artificial and cut crabs. The snook and redfish are getting back to their normal spring patterns of eating cut bait, white bait, and pinfish! the bite at night is just as good, if not better, then the daytime bite when it starts to warm up 🎣

Dillon Arsenault
St. Petersburg, Florida
Reported: 1 day ago

Dillon Arsenault St. Petersburg, Florida Reported: 1 day ago

Groupers have been chewing consistently, and they are eating everything right now—cut bait, live bait, and artificials. Speckled trout have made a comeback in the bay area, and we are seeing a lot of overslots more consistently every day! Good eating meat in the box! They are eating live pinfish, shrimp, and white bait like they have never seen them before. Big black drums are showing up in good numbers on the bridges, and they are slamming the artificial and cut crabs. The snook and redfish are getting back to their normal spring patterns of eating cut bait, white bait, and pinfish! the bite at night is just as good , if not better then the daytime bite when it starts to warm up 🎣

Dillon Arsenault
St. Petersburg, Florida
Reported: 1 day ago

Dillon Arsenault St. Petersburg, Florida Reported: 1 day ago

Dillon Arsenault
St. Petersburg, Florida
Reported: 1 day ago

Dillon Arsenault St. Petersburg, Florida Reported: 1 day ago

Groupers have been chewing consistently, and they are eating everything right now—cut bait, live bait, and artificials. Speckled trout have made a comeback in the bay area, and we are seeing a lot of overslots more consistently every day! Good eating meat in the box! They are eating live pinfish, shrimp, and white bait like they have never seen them before. Big black drums are showing up in good numbers on the bridges, and they are slamming the artificial and cut crabs. The snook and redfish are getting back to their normal spring patterns of eating cut bait, white bait, and pinfish! the bite at night is just as good , if not better then the daytime bite when it starts to warm up 🎣

Ashley Beall
Tampa, Florida
Reported: 1 day ago

Recent trips have produced some quality snook and trout, and some Spanish mackerel are showing up also. We have been using artificial lures and live bait and doing very well. There are also some big redfish and huge snook cruising around the mangroves right now.

Ashley Beall Tampa, Florida Reported: 1 day ago

Phil Pegley
Ruskin, Florida
Reported: 1 day ago

Phil Pegley Ruskin, Florida Reported: 1 day ago

In like a lion out like a lamb, the month of March is certainly living up to its reputation. We have had water temperatures sore into the 80s, then right back down into the 60s with the numerous fronts we have had. Cooler water means deeper areas for the snook, trout, and redfish inshore and spawning sheepshead and snapper on our Tampa Bay rock piles. With some site fishing for Cobia on the calm days tomorrow we're heading out to the Gulf of America for a little bottom fishing and to see if the kingfish are here yet. Let's get you booked in for some unforgettable memories and another great Captain's experience.

Joe Masi
Bay Pines, Florida
Reported: 4 days ago

Inshore, bite lots of trout, pompano redfish, a couple keeper snook, and plenty of little sharks for kids. Nearshore tripletail and gag grouper Greg snapper and permit an kingfish are starting to show up plenty of eaters. Tarpon permit kingfish and Spanish mackerel big focus next couple months.

Joe Masi Bay Pines, Florida Reported: 4 days ago

Nick Kuhn
Bradenton, Florida
Reported: 5 days ago

Tons of snook, redfish, and trout. Fishing has been great in between these cold fronts. The drag-screaming kingfish should be showing up right around the corner! Tarpon season will be coming quick!

Nick Kuhn Bradenton, Florida Reported: 5 days ago

Tons of snook, redfish, and trout. Fishing has been great in between these cold fronts. The drag-screaming kingfish should be showing up right around the corner! Tarpon season will be coming quick!

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★★★★★
Best guide ever! Hitting great trout like we wanted all day, then my son landed a prehistoric grouper, reeled that sucker in for a while! Capn Dillon put us right on the beast’s door step, all we had to do was knock on the door, BAM!💥
Michael B. | March 22, 2025

Trip: Targeted Flats Fishing
★★★★★
Best guide ever! I never thought it was going to be easy, but it was actually TOO EASY TWEEZY! So much fun and got in the fish all day!
Michael B. | March 22, 2025

Trip: Targeted Flats Fishing
★★★★★
Best guide ever! Hitting great trout like we wanted all day, then my son landed a prehistoric grouper, reeled that sucker in for a while! Capn Dillon put us right on the beast’s door step, all we had to do was knock on the door, BAM!💥
Michael B. | March 22, 2025

Trip: Targeted Flats Fishing
★★★★★
Best guide ever! I never thought it was going to be easy, but it was actually TOO EASY TWEEZY! So much fun and got in the fish all day!
Michael B. | March 22, 2025

Trip: Targeted Flats Fishing
★★★★★
Captain Chris was welcoming, friendly, and professional. The boat was clean and the gear was ready to go and in great shape. We would definitely fish with him again!
Joe H. | March 26, 2025

Trip: Tampa Bay Shark Fishing
★★★★★
Wade did great! He put us on fish within the first 20 minutes of being on his boat and we were catching fish the entire trip. He did great helping our kids learn how to catch and reel in the fish.
Jacob F. | March 25, 2025

Trip: St. Petersburg Inshore Adventures
★★★★★
Had an amazing time we highly recommend Captain Rob, he put us on many fish 🎣
Adrian C. | March 25, 2025

Trip: Hogfish Hoedown
★★★★★
We had the best day hanging out with Mikey! We had 3 kiddos (11 and 8) and he was so great with them!! Took time to get to know them, and talked about each fish they caught so it was super educational too! We would do this again in a heartbeat and couldn’t have asked for a better captain and a better day!!
Justine H. | March 25, 2025

Trip: 2 Hr Family and Kids Trip
★★★★★
We had an absolute blast!! I will say this, if you like to chill and just drink your beer, this might not be your charter. We caught so many fish we could hardly drink our beer! LOL! Honestly it was the best! We were a group of 4 adults and a 10 yr old. Of course, the kid caught a keeper Hogfish! The prized fish of the day. Thank you so much Tommy and Kevin. We will be back.
Tonya H. | March 24, 2025

Trip: Half Day 4 hrs. Offshore Experience
★★★★★
We had a better experience than expected and caught way more fish than I thought as well.
Shelley S. | March 24, 2025

Trip: Half Day 4 hrs. Offshore Experience
★★★★★
Great trip, I finally caught a shark and my daughter and I caught an abundance of eating fish.
Michael S. | March 23, 2025

Trip: Offshore Trip - 27' Cape Horn
★★★★★
We had the the best time as a family and he made it tremendous. Rick
Rick J. | March 22, 2025

Trip: Half Day 4 hrs. Offshore Experience
★★★★★
Best guide ever! Hitting great trout like we wanted all day, then my son landed a prehistoric grouper, reeled that sucker in for a while! Capn Dillon put us right on the beast’s door step, all we had to do was knock on the door, BAM!💥
Michael B. | March 22, 2025

Trip: Targeted Flats Fishing
★★★★★
Best guide ever! I never thought it was going to be easy, but it was actually TOO EASY TWEEZY! So much fun and got in the fish all day!
Michael B. | March 22, 2025

Trip: Targeted Flats Fishing
★★★★★
Captain Chris was welcoming, friendly, and professional. The boat was clean and the gear was ready to go and in great shape. We would definitely fish with him again!
Joe H. | March 26, 2025

Trip: Tampa Bay Shark Fishing
★★★★★
Wade did great! He put us on fish within the first 20 minutes of being on his boat and we were catching fish the entire trip. He did great helping our kids learn how to catch and reel in the fish.
Jacob F. | March 25, 2025

Trip: St. Petersburg Inshore Adventures
★★★★★
Captain Chris was welcoming, friendly, and professional. The boat was clean and the gear was ready to go and in great shape. We would definitely fish with him again!
Joe H. | March 26, 2025

Trip: Tampa Bay Shark Fishing
★★★★★
Wade did great! He put us on fish within the first 20 minutes of being on his boat and we were catching fish the entire trip. He did great helping our kids learn how to catch and reel in the fish.
Jacob F. | March 25, 2025

Trip: St. Petersburg Inshore Adventures