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2002-12-14
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Ft. Myers - Offshore - Big Red Is HERE!
Greetings;
In between some challenging weather we have had some really great fishing on our waters lately. Water temperatures have cooled into the high sixty's. As much as I hated to see the kingfish move south of our range, I w more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers |
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2002-12-04
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Ft. Myers - Offshore - Winter Pattern's In Effect
Greetings;
With the commencement of steady cold fronts our water temperature in the gulf has fallen at a steady pace for three weeks to about sixty seven degrees as of yesterday. With that falling temperature sloppy se more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers |
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2002-12-02
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Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Cold winter makes fishing tough but excellent duck hunting.
This year we are experiencing the coldest winter I have seen since I have been guiding. We haven't had a day over 79 degrees in 15 days. Usually the weather isn't this cold until mid more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers |
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2002-11-16
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Ft. Myers - Offshore - Seasons Change
Greetings;
Well there one thing about the weather that is predictable. Its always changing. As our seasons change from summer, to fall, to winter, several things change as well. Water temperature is believed by many biologist to b more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers |
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2002-11-09
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Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Grand Slam!
Fall in the 10,000 Islands is probably the easiest place to get a grand slam which consists of catching a tarpon, snook, and redfish in one trip. You can add the trout if you want,for he ultimate grand slam. For most of last month and more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers |
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2002-11-06
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Ft. Myers - Offshore - Pelagics Run Wild
Greetings;
Offshore fishing in our area right now is hard. Not hard to catch fish, but hard to decide what to target. We are in the middle of our fall pelagic run and the fishing has never been better, KNOCK ON WOOD. Not any ot more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers |
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2002-10-30
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Ft. Myers - Offshore - Fall Fishing Explodes Offshore
Greetings;
The fall bait run is in full swing along our coast. Consider this migration a virtual moving fast food restaurant. Kind of like fast food with fins.
Inshore there are good numbers of spanish more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers |
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2002-10-28
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Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Right on Cue!
As expected the fishing exploded this month. It is a little known fact that October is probably the best fishing month in the 10,000 Islands. We have been having a blast catching good numbers of tarpon, snook, redfish, king mackerel, more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers |
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2002-10-10
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Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Feeding Frenzy! Tarpon, Sharks, Jacks and more!
For those of you who follow my reports, I have been predicting an explosion of fish activity this fall. To put it bluntly, it's here. We are experiencing some of the best tarpon fishing of the year a more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers |
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2002-10-02
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Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook and Jack's Attack!
We managed to get in a few trips in between the hurracanes Isadore and Lilly this week. When the seas finally subsided, the bait was easy but most of the week 4-6 ft swells kept most of us hiding deep into the backcountry more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers |
