2003-05-10 12:00 AM
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Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Catch a Slam!
Spring is one of the best times to catch a grand slam in Southwest Florida. The slam consists of catching a tarpon, snook and redfish in one trip. You can throw in a trout for a true inshore backcountry slam. Even though the tarpon a more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers |
2003-05-04 12:00 AM
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Ft. Myers - Offshore - Tuna & Tarpon
Greetings,
This week of great weather was tailor made for sight fishing. We spent three days out there with fly rods chasing little tunny's (false albacore) and blackfin tuna around. What a mind blowing time that is, they have amaz more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers |
2003-04-24 12:00 AM
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Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Lot's of big fish!
It's spring and that means big fish. We have been catching king mackerel, snook, redfish, grouper and jewfish the past two weeks. The one thing that I haven't been catching is tarpon. I have only caught two tarpon all month. Nor more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers |
2003-04-22 12:00 AM
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Ft. Myers - Offshore - Great Weather, Great Fishing
Greetings;
You can sum up the weather and fishing this week as chamber of commerce perfect. Calm seas, pretty days combined with good fishing came right on top of our Easter week anglers. I did not do any inshore fis more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers |
2003-04-14 12:00 AM
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Ft. Myers - Offshore - The King Is Back
Greetings;
I can report that fishing is good but, boy- O- boy these El Nino years keep me guessing on what is going to happen next. Weather, and fish migrations are not on a normal track. During a typical year I can usually pred more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers |
2003-04-11 12:00 AM
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Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook, Reds, Trout and a few Tarpon.
Sorry about the lack of reporting for the last month but as most of you know I live down in Everglades National Park for the month of March and April and I don't have internet access. The tarpon moved in as goo more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers |
2003-03-11 12:00 AM
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Ft. Myers - Offshore - Big Boys Back In Town!
Greetings;
Mother nature sent us some great weather last week and the fish responded. Large schools of bait have migrated into the area with the rising water temperatures. Permit, kings, cudas, spanish, and tarpon are all more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers |
2003-03-03 12:00 AM
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Ft. Myers - Offshore - Spring Arrives!
Greetings;
With water temperatures steadily on the rise our hopes of pelagic's like kingfish rise each day. The bait migration into the area has started. A few kings, permit, and even a sailfish have been hooked this past more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers |
2003-03-02 12:00 AM
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Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Jacks and Sharks!
This week was spent fishing out of Chokoluskee and Marco Island. The water has warmed into the 70's and live bait has moved into the area and some of the big preditors are already here.
Jacks dominated our catches out of both a more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers |
2003-02-24 12:00 AM
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Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - With spring comes Wind!
The good news is that spring like conditions are becoming more prevelent which means tarpon, snook and sharks are on the move. The bad news is that early spring is usually windy. This year seems to be just that. I fishe more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers |