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Estero Bay Report Sept 23rd
Capt. Jon Fetter
September 27, 2013
Estero Bay - Saltwater Fishing Report
The fishing in and around Estero Bay continues to be really good. The backbay bite is focused on snook, redfish, and snapper right now. The snook are feeding well on free lined white bait or pinfish on 3/0 circle hooks fished around the floating docks and mangrove islands near the passes. The best bite for them has been a strong incoming or outgoing tide. The night bite has been strong for them as well around the lighted docks. Free lined live bait or white jerk baits have been the ticket. The bigger fish seem to be hanging around at night, so beef up your tackle and hold on. The redfish have been schooling up on the shallow grass flats around or near the oyster bars. Look for them to move on or off these oyster beds as the tide moves. Shrimp tipped jig heads, cut ladyfish, or pinfish will work just fine. As they move onto the grass anglers can try using pinfish under floats as this will keep the baits from swimming down into the grass. Artificial baits like rapala skitterwalks, zara spooks, storm chug bugs, and zoom flukes will work under the same conditions. If snapper is what you are looking for then find some blow down and tip small jig heads or #1 circle hooks with shrimp and get ready. They are hungry and eating almost every cast. Doesn't take long to get a few in the cooler for dinner. Trout have been harder to find, but if anglers show patients over the grass flats in 2-5 feet of water with shrimp under a popping cork one might get lucky. The nearshore reef has been teaming with action from snapper, trout, pompano, Spanish mackerel, grouper and other bottom dwellers. Work the bottom with cut bait and shrimp to get the bottom species and free lined shrimp will get the Spanish and others in the water column.
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