All About Saltwater Fishing Florida
There are many hot spots to fish at in Florida, this is why it is considered to be one of the best places to fish in the world. With places like the Florida Keys, Tampa Bay and the everglades, why would you not want to fish in Florida.
Some of the fish you can expect to catch in Florida are grouper, snapper, snook, sheepshead, redfish, sharks, along with many others. Although fishing offshore can be wonderful and offer big fish, you can get good results fishing inshore also.
Some of the options you might want to look into if you do not have a boat is fishing from a pier. There are many fishing piers up and down both coasts of Florida, and they all provide excellent fishing for anglers year round. Some of them will charge you money some of them wont, one of the more famous fishing piers in Florida lies in Fort Desoto.
The Fort Desoto fishing pier extends out a little longer than a football field, and all the fish I mentioned above can be caught there. Another great spot to cast some lines are on beaches, which is also called surf fishing. The best places to do this are on the beaches that have bridge or pier inlets, and lots of rocks, the rocks give fish like snapper and snook spots to hide and stay out of the sun.
Dock fishing is also great in Florida, if there is an inlet by the dock then you are sure to see some snook around there. Sheepshead also love swimming around docks, and they will be anywhere that has barnacles.
With thousands of bridges in Florida, there is always a spot to do some inshore saltwater fishing. Not all bridges allow you to fish from them, but you can usually fish under them too. Some great bridges to fish from are the old sunshine skyway bridge in Saint Petersburg and the 7 mile bridge in the Keys.
As you can see there are plenty of ways and places to fish inshore in Florida. You may not be able to get fish as big as if you were out at sea, but this is definitely a cheaper alternative to either hiring a charter or investing the money into a boat.