Anglers hitting the Florida Gulf Coast this weekend should prepare for classic summer conditions, with hot weather and slower ...

With the red tide gone for now, the Bradenton Herald’s columnist joined a fishing guide to see how the bay is doing, and what he will be fishing for with cold weather on the horizon.

5: Around the Sunshine Skyway and lower Tampa Bay, tarpon fishing remains good throughout lower Tampa Bay. There’s still good numbers of fish to the south that have yet to come this way, so ...

APOLLO BEACH — Lands End Marina will host its fifth annual boating and fishing flea market Saturday to benefit the safe boating classes of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary (Flotilla 75 Ruskin).

Despite the hustle and bustle of Tampa Bay being the second largest metropolitan area in Florida, the St. Petersburg and Clearwater Area offer great fishing tucked into their cities.

The other was a rarely seen middle of Tampa Bay mutton snapper caught while fishing in only seven feet of water. “We were chumming a spot for grouper, free-lining baits on a 5/0 hook with no weight.