Fort Myers Fishing Reports

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: Nice Gag & Red Grouper Offshore; Nice Sheepshead Bayside Monday, 11/26, I fished a catch-and-release trip in Estero Bay in potholes between Wiggins Pass and Barefoot Beach with Dan Nimmer and his teenaged son, John. We releas more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita beach: Nice sheepshead inshore, reds, flounder; grouper & goliaths offshore Monday, 11/19, I fished offshore with long time clients Jerry and Barb Rudan from Wisconsin. Jerry had his hopes up for battling a big grouper or two but fi more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Charlotte Harbor Feast or Famine Fishing Report I fished a couple of days after the cold front and the fishing was really tough. We caught a handfull of trout and a couple of oversized redfish. Since then the fishing has really picked up. The pa more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Flounder? Big Flounder in SW FL? Yup. We ran into a bunch of them today. Tomorrow mine goes on the grill! Water temps are dropping and the offshore grouper are moving nearshore/inshore. The Little Tunny (Bonita) run has gone on the QT. King Macks ha more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: 28 inch gag offshore; Inshore trout, sheepshead, reds On a third outing within a week with the Troutmann clan on Tuesday, 11/13/07, the family decided that just the guys would go offshore. Albert Troutmann and sons Patrick an more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: Inshore Reds, Near-shore Grouper Monday, 11/5, was predicted to be calm offshore. I headed out with Mike & Lea Connealy, Mike’s dad, and friend, Karen, but as we got a way offshore conditions got pretty sloppy and a little to more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Rod bending and drag screaming can be found within 100 yards of the Gulf of Mexico along SW FL Beaches. GiddyUp Fishing Charters has scored snook (big), trout (big), mackerel (big Spanish and Kings), Little Tunny (GiddyUp and dog love to eat them) a more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: Too rough offshore all week, thanks to Noel...Inshore Very Good for Nice Redfish, Sheepshead, Snapper and small Snook Friday morning, 10/26, I fished Estero Bay along the channel between Lely Barefoot Beach and Wiggins Pass w more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Tropical Storm puts a damper on the fishing For the past five days we have had very breezy weather and now we have rain and its down right windy. This has pretty much erased some pretty good fishing that we were having. Before the weather ca more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - MAYDAY! MAYDAY! MAYDAY! This is a Redfish alert for South Matlacha Pass (Power Lines)and Snook alert for Tarpon Bay. And speaking of Tarpon, never has there been a greater opportunity to catch a tarpon from the beach in SW FL. This is something this more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers