Fort Myers Fishing Reports

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Sight fishing! If you have been following the reports then you know that I had a serious knee injury about a month ago. I figured I would be out 4-6 weeks. I am happy to say that I have been fishing for the past two weeks. The only thing that I ha more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Let's go trout fishing! As most of you know I haven’t been on the water for three weeks due to a busted knee. It is slowly recovering and I am actually off the crutches. I am going to try to get out and do some trout fishing this weekend. Th more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Warming Trend Improves Offshore Fishing Greetings: The recent warming trend combined with a few pretty days has led us to some great days offshore this past week. We made the decision to re-power our Mako with a new engine, so our rides were a b more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Winter Report for 2002 A lot has happened since my last updated report. I went on vacation for three weeks and returned to very cold and rainy weather which pushed the tarpon and snook out of the country and I caught the flu while I was at more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Cold Weather Greetings; Well the weather has sure played a factor in our fishing lately. With the onset of several cold nights our water temps have dropped off sharply. With those cold fronts came some pretty stiff wind to deal with also more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Hot or Not Greetings; I hope this first report of the new year finds you happy and well. I ran several charters over the holidays. Fishing in general was up and down but productive. Many good days with a few slow days mixed in. The more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - I've got a bite! “I’ve got a bite!” was the quote of the week by one of my customers this week just after a 80-pound tarpon took his bait. I ran two trip out of the 10,000 Islands this week and we landed 11 of 22 tarpon we hooked with live baits. more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Fishing is excellent for snook and redfish! Good fishing still continues out of Marco Island. Huge snook, oversized redfish, acres of mackerel, bluefish and jack crevelle provided excellent action this week. Large sardines have been the key more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Big Kings & Big Reds Greetings; Thanks to the nice weather we have enjoyed lately fishing has been very consistent. Although I have not made many long runs offshore, we have had plenty of nice bragging fish to show for our efforts. I am still r more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Good Fishing Returns! After three weeks of mediocre fishing the winds calmed down and the temperatures tipped the mid 80’s and the fishing responded as a result. Trips prior to Turkey Day were still the “winter” mode with cool winds and choppy sea more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers