Sarasota Florida Fishing

Sarasota is best known for its inshore fishing, and that’s why Sarasota Bay and the surrounding areas are home to a year-round population of Redfish, Flounder, and Seatrout. Sarasota fishing always has more to give. Come the summer months these are joined by big populations of Snook and Tarpon on their annual migration. You can spend your trip wading and poling along the endless sandbars and seagrass meadows, or pass your day dropping lines into the sprawling mass of artificial reefs and oyster banks found both inside and outside the bay. Early summer months of May and June are the time for you. This happily coincides with the annual Sarasota Tarpon Tournament, one of the best places to pay homage to the Silver King.

There are strict rules on the harvesting of many species, most notably Red Snapper, which can be kept only during a short season which changes every year, usually running from late May through early July. There’s nothing more satisfying than a morning reeling in Trout after Trout out near Stephen’s Point, but if you do feel in the mood for a bit more variety in your reach, you don’t need to travel so far.