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2022-04-28
7:16 AM
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April Fishing Report - Steve and Renee Carter and their daughters, Lilly and Maggie, fished southern Estero Bay's backwaters with me on Friday morning, 4/1. Using live shrimp, the family caught seven mangrove snapper including two keepers, and a 14-inch whiting. They relea more...
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2022-03-31
12:57 PM
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Fishbuster March Report-Good fishing inshore and offshore - Jon and Kim Lueck fished southern Estero Bay's backwaters with me on Tuesday morning, 3/1. They used live shrimp to catch a dozen sheepshead, including three keepers between 14 and 17 inches. They also caught a 15-inch permit, and released two m more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2022-02-26
1:02 PM
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February Fishing - Sharon Krummel and her son, Greg, fished southern Estero Bay's backwaters with me on Tuesday morning, 2/1/22. They were after sheepshead, and used live shrimp to make that happen. They caught seven keeper sheepshead between 14 and 17 inches, and rele more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2022-01-27
12:22 PM
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January, 2022 Report-Bonita Beach, FL - Robert and Michelle Peachey fished southern Estero Bay's backwaters, using live shrimp, on Tuesday, 1/4. They caught sixteen sheepshead, including one 14-inch keeper, along with four keeper mangrove snapper to 12 inches. They released a 24-inch redfi more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2021-11-30
1:44 PM
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Quarterly Fishing Report - Amy Charlson treated her sons and their friends to a near-shore, catch-and-release excursion on Tuesday morning, 8/3. It was rough going out to the near-shore reefs, about five miles off Bonita Beach, with numerous showers in the area. The boys used more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2020-03-18
2:16 PM
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Big Sheepshead Inshore; Triggerfish Offshore - Ed Thompson and his family fished offshore with me on Tuesday morning, 2/11/20, 18 to 20 miles west of New Pass. The family used squid and cut-bait to catch and release five red grouper shorts to 18 inches, along with a bunch of blue runners and sand more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2020-02-11
11:34 AM
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Busy season here, and the fish are cooperating! - Saturday morning, 1/4/20, was a windy one, but the tide was good in Estero Bay's backwaters, where I fished a catch & release trip with David Dunbar and his girlfriend, Emily Eiteljorg. The couple used live shrimp to catch a dozen sheepshead, four of more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2020-01-04
10:37 AM
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Triggers, Grouper, Shark, Redfish, Sheepshead & More! - The day after Thanksgiving, 11/29, I fished the backwaters of southern Estero Bay with Dianne Hogler and her seventeen-year-old son, Ryan. They used live shrimp to catch twenty sheepshead, including four keepers that were all around 13 inches. They r more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2019-11-23
2:03 PM
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Fishing action good offshore and inshore - I was off the water for all of September, but fished in southern Estero Bay on a windy morning Tuesday, October 1, with Roy and Derek Brown. The guys used live shrimp to catch and release three redfish to 19 inches. The 19-inch red would have been a more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2019-08-09
1:15 PM
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Lots of rain, but fishing good when you can go - On Wednesday morning, 7/3/19, I fished miles west of New Pass with Dwayne McCoy and his family and friends. Although seas were predicted to be less than two feet, that was not the case until it was nearly time to head in from our ½-day excursion. But more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
