Spring has fully arrived on Anna Maria Island, and the fishing scene is heating up as we transition from March into April 2025. With...

With cooler temperatures , sheepshead and black drum fishing remained excellent , and pompano were still thick in the passes . Offshore,...

December meant the return of sheepshead , as these fish stacked up around docks, rock piles, and piers . Fiddler crabs and live shrimp...

With water temperatures dropping into the 70s , many species were feeding aggressively ahead of winter. Speckled trout were thick on...

October brought some of the best fishing of the year , with large redfish schools moving across the flats . Many of these fish were...

With cooler mornings and slightly shorter days , the inshore bite began to pick up again . Redfish started schooling up ahead of their...

August was one of the hottest months of the year , meaning the best fishing was early in the morning, late in the evening, or in deeper,...

July brought sweltering temperatures and afternoon thunderstorms , forcing anglers to adjust their schedules. Snook remained active at...

As summer hit its stride, rising water temperatures in the mid-to-high 80s  pushed many inshore fish into deeper waters during midday....

May signaled the official start of tarpon season , with large schools of silver kings migrating along the coast . Early morning live...