Fort Myers Fishing Reports

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SWFL-Bonita Beach: bay and near-shore report I fished Wednesday in 30 feet out of New Pass, around the reefs, with Joe Soboloski and his three sons. We used live shrimp to catch keeper mangrove snapper, lane snapper, and Spanish mackerel. We rel more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Title this fishing report Returning to Normal except our Bait Situation. Only small strains of Red Tide remain and if you happen through it, SAY-LA-VEE to all your bait. Sunday (Aug 13th) was a good day in Pine Island Sound. Everyone has been wa more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: permit to 26 lbs., 28 lb. cobia, shark, pompano, hogfish, snapper & Spanish mackerel Roger Meir and fifteen year old son, Phillip, from Switzerland, fished with me Monday at the reefs off Bonita Beach. We used live shrimp to more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach Offshore: Spanish mackerel, lane snapper, mangrove snapper, moon fish, goliath, red grouper Fishbuster Charters’ Captain Dave Hanson reported, “Graham Connor and fifteen year old son, Brenden, fished with me in 35 feet out of more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - In searching for a proper opening, I have good news and bad news. As my last report was noting but bad news, first the good news. Most of the millions of Dead Fish have decomposed. Sightings of dead fish are therefore the exception not the rule. Now more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: redfish, mackerel, lane snapper Virginia Stafford, her sister Carol, and her grandsons Mac and William, fished Monday with me in Estero Bay, toward Wiggins Pass. We used live shrimp to catch a 20 inch redfish and keeper sheep more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - OK. I took considerable Flack over my last fishing report. Another Guide said GiddyUp, it is too negative. You are killing fishing in Ft. Myers. The following is my revised report. Yesterday (July 27, 2006)I gave my charter away to Capt. Davi more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: Spanish mackerel, mangrove snapper, shark I fished Monday with John Maliszewski and friend, Joe, in 30 feet out of New Pass. We used live shrimp and dead shiners, free-lining for Spanish mackerel, and we caught thirty keeper more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - NOW HERE THIS! IF YOUR PLANS INCLUDE SW FL PLS CANCEL THEM AND OPT FOR A VACATION ANYWHERE BUT THE FT. MYERS AREA. HELL, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, I WOULD RATHER BE IN BEIRUT OR TEXAS THAN IN SW FL. OUR RED TIDE SITUATION COULD ONLY BE DESCROBED AS HORR more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - STAY AWAY FROM SW FL! OUR REDTIDE IS THE WORST IN 60 YEARS. MAKE NO MISTAKE, THE WATERS OF SW FL LOOK LIKE BEIRUT. IF MY FELLOW GUIDES BLACKBALL ME FOR THIS REPORT, GOD BLESS THEM. I WOULD NOT WISH SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ON OSAMA BIN LADEN. I WILL NOT D more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers