Category Archives: Recent Catches & Trip Reports

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.

AmberJack Fishing Feb 1st

Weather has not cooperated with local fisherman lately. Finding a good time to Safely venture 60 miles offshore has been challenging. This weekend was the break we have been looking for.

The fish have been under little “Stressure” with all of the cold fronts, rough conditions, cold temperatures, and rain. So as we expected the fish blanketed our structure very thick. We deployed jigs and…

Trip Report Jan 5

Water temp is beginning to rise. We made this trip out of John’s Pass in the late morning per customer request. Headed 40 miles west to a favorite hole of ours and had a great day. Barracuda, Shark, Jacks, Cobia all around and in abundance.  Couple highlights on this trip where the 150+lbs Black tip shark we landed and the fact that a customer had a LARGE shark devour an AJ at about 15ft deep. When we weight the AJ’s head it came in at a whopping 17lbs which makes us believe that fish weighed in excess of 60lbs.