Fishing Reports by Capt. Bert Barkus

Redfish and Trout are the fish this month. - Myself,Gil Drake,and Lee Dunn have been fly fishing this past week for reds. It has been fantastic site fishing for reds, with a mix of 8 to 12 pound snook. Whats is somewhat strange, is the reds are very hard to get to eat.Usually if you get the f more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee

Kayaking the Backcountry of Everglades National Park/Chokoloskee - Kayaking the Backcountry Report Date: December 12, 2009 Kayaking the Backcountry Capt. Bert Barkus December 12, 2009 Chokoloskee - Saltwater Fishing Report I've been taking a few trips to the backcountry this week kayaking with good results. more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee

Kayaking the Backcountry - I've been taking a few trips to the backcountry this week kayaking with good results. 4 people yesterday caught and released aprox. 20plus snook,2 slot reds and loads of trout. This didn't make a few guides to happy to see other people fishing,(exp more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee

Chokoloskee,Fishing the cold front. - Chokoloskee,Fishing in cold front. Report Date: November 10, 2009 Fishing Gil Drake for 8 days provided us with not a whole lot of action. Generally speaking,I do very well during those times,but with the seasonal change, I believe, it had alot to more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee

Chokoloskee,Fishing in the rain - Well it started out pretty bad,rain,thunder and Lighting. After about 3 hours the wind switched west, and I started fishing the runout creeks south of chokoloskee. Jeff Davis was onboard again, and as always, he slammed the tarpon in the 30-40 p more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee

Sepember Fish Report - Snook season opens and we have been doing well on the smaller snook,18 to 28. Fish the last of the outgoing to the first of the incoming tides,especially on the moon tides. Their pleanty of the smaller tarpon on the gulf side with all the bait po more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee

Snook Season Opens - This is the first week of snook season and it's been pretty quiet here in Chokoloskee. I expected hundreds of boats on the water, but after fishing this week with Gil Drake,we didn't see that many. We had a great 2 day of snook fishing. On day 1 w more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee

Brown Water Rround Ups. - Well the gators have now made it to the outside rivers with all the run offs this time of year. I won't be suprised to see them where I live soon. I fished with Gil Drake this week and It was a success. We were in the backcounty and found the smal more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee

Double Header and it kept comming - This past week we stared out summer time evening trips. I was fishing David Carr and we were on the tarpon strike of the very last of the out going when the bite started. I also fished James Breeze,Randy Forrest,Phil Napolitan and Adam Maris( the g more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee

Brown waters for snook tarpon and reds & drum - Considering we are in the beginning for the summer brown water conditions,fishing has been pretty good. Myself, and Ned Small fished 1 day, Ned had a slam,I jumped a few tarpon and we boath caught a few snook. On day 2 I was fishing with Bill Blant more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee