Chokoloskee Fishing Reports

Got to Get Out and Get em When the Gettens Good - Got to Get out and Get em When the Gettens Good Capt. Bert Barkus February 25, 2010 Chokoloskee - Saltwater Fishing Report Meaning the trout fishing. This year has been excellent when it comes to Trout fishing.It's no problem to get your limi more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee

WIll the Cold and Wind End? - Report Date: February 18, 2010 Living in Florida my whole life, i've never seen such a cold spell for this duration. Not only did we have massive snook,tarpon,and other species killed off,but it has not been a whole of fun with 40 degreese air te more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee

Winter fishing still hot in the Everglades - Well the water temperature is still in the low 70's, but the fish don't seem to mind. The trout bite continues to the best I have seen in years. The fish are large and very hungry. Mixed in with the trout, we are catching some nice sized pompano and more...
Capt. Herb Kehoe - Chokoloskee

Redfish and Trout still biting in the Everglades - With the water temperatures steadily rising back up towards the 70's, our winter fishing is getting back to normal. Fishing South on Wednesday around the river mouths we found plenty of redfish and black drum on the rising tide. Once the tide stopped more...
Capt. Herb Kehoe - Chokoloskee

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

Seatrout action great in the Everglades - In spite of the cold water and cool temperatures, fishing was pretty good this week. On Wednesday I fished with Charlie Atwood, his sons Bret and Paul and their friend Scott. Our morning started off very slow. With a falling tide, I decided to fish i more...
Capt. Herb Kehoe - 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