Fort Myers Fishing Reports

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Tarpon are THE BIG STORY! This is the time of year I live for. Tarpon fishing brings sleepless nights and long days. But I have never had anything that thrills me more than this great fish. At this time, Tarpon fishing is as good as it gets. Off t more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Tarpon, Redfish, and King Mackerel Alert Tarpon are everywhere. The Silver Kings are especially thick in front of The Twins on Ft. Myers Beach. This area is located almost Mid-Island. Big Fish are on the prowl. I'm talkin' Tarpon over 100LBS. more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Offshore Springs Into Action Greetings, Pinch me because it doesn’t get better than this weeks fishing. Since the last front water temperatures have been steady on the rise, water clarity improving, bait schools are moving in and with the more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - The Bite is on! GiddyUp The wind has been less than 10KTS and the fishing has turned on like a sprinkler system. It seems as though everything is on the bite. King Mackerel have been traveling from South to North in 42-44FT of water directly off more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Poons, Permit and Wind. Since my last fishing report we have had some of the best fishing of the year. We had to move around alot to accomodate for the high winds by jumping alot from Pine island to Marco. I prefer to fish the Pine Island are more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Jacks and Kings What a Pair! Greetings, Well it’s a busy spring for sure. Our SKA (Southern Kingfish Association) division eleven tournaments have completed. Our team consisting of Mark Combs, MJ Combs, their daughter Brittany, my wife Liz, and more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Windy but nights are calm. Fish are everywhere King Macks: I loaded up on Kings on Saturday but paid the price for my success by NOT leaving until the wind came up instead of ANTICIPATING the wind would come up and leaving a little early. I knew b more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Windy, Blown Out, and it stinks for everyone (Except of course for the guys who report great fishing in Hurricanes) It was very disappointing to cancel three (3) trips this week because of the freaking wind. White caps in Estero Bay and white caps more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Tarpon and Permit! Tarpon and permit were the stars of the show last week before the winds and cold moved in on us. Warm spring like weather and light winds combined to produce the best catches of the year so far off Marco Island. Since then howev more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Reds, Trout, Sharks! The reds ,trout and sharks went off in Pine Island Sound this past week. We caught alomost record numbers of trout and reds on all but one day since my last report. Snook were mixed in as well but the bite has been a littl more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers