Fort Myers Fishing Reports

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - 2006 produced some serious wind, redtide, plus vast amounts of fresh water from Lake O-Foley. Snook Season and Trout Season are now closed as of this writing. If you live in the Fishing Capitol of the World your dailt bag limit is 1 Redfish. more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: more hogs & sheep, snapper Monday, I fished a catch and release trip with the Snyder family—Dave and Rhonda, son Ryan, and daughter Lenay. We headed out with live shrimp to about 19 miles out of New Pass, where we fished in 3 more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Greetings, The warm weather as of late has kept water temps higher than normal. With that our baitfish schools have stayed close and in large numbers. Near shore on the artificial reefs Sheepshead have started to show up. Bull Redfish are in the ar more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook season closes and Trout season's about to open. December 15th marked the closing of snook season. New years day marks the opening of speckled trout season. That's a good thing because the snook are getting harder to find the trout are gett more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL: Bonita Beach, Offshore report: 175 lb. goliath grouper, gag grouper, hogfish, snapper, and sheepshead After a blustery weekend, that caused me to cancel my offshore trips, I headed to the artificial reefs on Monday with John Maliszewski a more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Greetings, Greetings, With the good water quality and thick bait local fishing has been very good lately. Near shore sheepshead, Bull Redfish, and False Albacore have been thick. The sheepshead have responded well to shrimp on head knocker rigs. more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Big Fat Live Shrimp have been instumental in the success of some monster snook taken from St James City canals. As well, decent numbers of juvenille Goliath Grouper are being caught and released as well. Snook: Man O' Man has the snook fishing bee more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: flounder inshore and offshore, redfish, sheepshead, triggerfish, snapper, goliath I fished on a very windy Monday, 12/4, in Estero Bay with John Hull and his dad, Bob. We fished several holes with live shrimp, and did pretty more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Happy Holidays to all except Mark Foley. He is responsible for bringing masses amounts of freshwater to SW FL and killing our nearshore reefs. For the past 2 years our Grouper Trolling has been a total bust. Where all the freshwater goes should be a more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Winter Slamin! Flats fishing this fall didn't live up to my standards. But it looks like an El Nino winter is just what the doctor ordered. Fish for redfish is HOT! We have been catching bunches of reds of all sized the past two weeks. I have more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers