Fort Myers Fishing Reports

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Spring Time Greetings, Spring is in the air for sure. Problem for me though this week has been the flu keeping me off my game. On the days I got out bait was abundant, a throw or two and the live well was blacked out. Lots of bait in the area no more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - The Calm before The Storm All hell is getting ready to break lose down here in SW FL. This is a good thing because I am getting reports of Cobia and Tarpon arriving before April. March is always a windy month. It was windy in SC in March where I f more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Permit us to King You! Greetings, Well fishing fans, spring has tapped us on the shoulder for sure. Crazy weather cycles and awesome fishing has been on tap for the Magic Hook as of late. Lots of bait has moved into the area as Gulf temperatures more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - It's Inshore Slam Time! We had inshore slams everyday this week and fishing in general is started to bust loose. Breezy warm weather has warmed the water temps and fish have started to come out of hiding in both Pine Island Sound and the 10,000 Is more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Rain, Wind, Cold, and more Wind. Near Shore Report Water temp has retreated from 71 last week to 64 this week. Yesterday (Sunday Feb 29th)Mike Mitchell and his son Mike Mitchell from Denver fished with me on a 6hr trip. They were the best from the more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Hot and Cold Weather means Hot&Cold Fishing As long as 3-6 miles off Naples and Bonita Springs is producing like it is, it makes no sense to go anywhere else. As my Ole' Pappy use to say,If he ain't broke, don't try and fix it Peckerwood! God I h more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Spring Time Is Permited Greetings, Ever hear the line “when its nice its really nice, when its bad its really bad”? Well that sums up our weather of late. Good news is that the warming trend is on, the water temperatures have risen from s more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Specks and reds! The fishing the past few weeks has been much of the same. Lots of specks mixed in with some redfish. One thing that has changed is that the fish are moving around alot. One day we'll catch 40-60 trout on a flat and the next day w more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Cool Temps means Hot Fishing Action (Naples to Sanibel) 2004 is getting started with some serious GiddyUp. I've had 3 Charters in the last 6 days and everyone went home with fish for the Barbi. Big Redfish: Schools of nomadic Reds have been prowl more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Cold Water Trout and Reds Since my last report the weather has turned extremely cold for our area. This is not abnormal for this time of year though. This is when my little 17 tunnel hull flats boat comes into it's own. I have been using this boa more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers