Fort Myers Fishing Reports

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Summer Pattern Big Fish Greetings, Our summer pattern is starting to kick into full swing. Warm calm mornings and afternoon thunderstorms. It also means that tarpon are along the beaches, snook are on the beach and over offshore structures, lo more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - In the words of one of my favorite characters (Austin Powers), Yeah Baby, Yeah! Scoring fish in SW FL is about as easy as it gets right now. You name em' and they are on the bite. Monster Tarpon (none as big as the Tipples Tarpon), Medium Tarpon, a more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Lots of wind, lots of tarpon So Far this season has had a lot of wind and a lot of tarpon. We had 13 days in a row of east wind at 10-20 knots last month and we got beat up on many of our trips but other that the fishing has been solid. We' more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach Inshore Fishing Report I fished the tree lines in Estero Bay around Hickory Bay with Homer Jack Moore and wife Lorraine on Tuesday. We caught and released lots of mangrove snapper and a 14 inch sheepshead. We lost a nice redfi more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Bay redfish and sheepshead; Reef snapper and Spanish--Too much wind! Bonita Beach, SW FL Ben Sampson and girlfriend Jill just wanted to catch fish Monday morning, 5/21, so we headed out in some fairly rough seas to the 5 mile reef. We caught tri more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - For the first time in my career as a Professional Saltwater Fishing Guide, a decision was made to write a newspaper story about a very special day of tarpon fishing. An epic battle between UK visitor to Sanibel, Jonathan and Jane Tibbles, resulted in more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Redfish, yellowtail & mangrove snapper, sheepshead, kingfish, amber jacks, bonito, mahi-sighting: Bonita Beach, SW FL Monday, 5/14, the winds were blowing once again. I advised my anglers, Patrick and Natalie Smith, to fish the bay instead of he more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Come and Get'em! Tarpon, that is. Each year I totally devote the months of May and June to tarpon fishing and this year the fishing has been great. We've had to endure some pretty harsh conditions but the fishing has been good enough to hook at more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: rough seas, goliaths galore, 7 foot bull shark The calm winds and seas of last week didn’t hold too long. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday brought strong gusty winds and high seas, which caused me to reschedule my offshore angle more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - As previously mentioned, wind has played absolute havoc with SW FL fishing. For March and April, how about 9 days out of 61 of wind 14MPH or less. For the first 8 days of May, the pattern has not changed. So much for the weather report but as you kno more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers