Fort Myers Fishing Reports

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Big Fish Out Far! Greetings, On the nice days we are really catching some great fish right now! On the sloppy days we are working very hard for it. In general, the key phrase would be action. On our Four Hour charters working on the more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Hippee! Our limit of 1 Snook begins Feb 1st! How about that fishing fans? 1 Redfish. Jeb Bush proclaims Florida as the Fishing Capital of the World. Jeb is almost as good of a Snake Oil salesman as a close relative of his (Hint: Not his Dad who is more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - 25 lb. jack, snapper, more wind: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at right is of a unusually large (for this area) cravalle jack, weighing 25 lbs., caught this past Wednesday in Estero Bay. Tuesday, fishing 17 miles out of New Pass, in 40 f more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Gator Trout Action! Winter trout fishing is usually the best trout fishing of the year and this winter is no different. We usually put up good numbers of trout most of the year but the quality of fish the last few weeks has been better than ad more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Lots of wind, then snapper at week's end: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at right is of a 23 inch gag grouper, caught last week on an offshore trip. Weather did not cooperate with the full week of fishing I had planned. After a very gusty more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - How windy is it on Pine Island Sound? It is so windy that Dudes on windsurfers are passing my 24FT Bay Boat with 225 GiddyUps on the transom (in SC The Good Ole' Boys call it a TRANDSOM. Heavy on the D that ain't there) Here what's happening in th more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Great week of fishing-gags, snapper: Bonita beach, SW FL The photo at right is of a 23 1/2 inch gag grouper, caught on a recent offshore trip, on a live shrimp. After a rough and windy weekend, I got back offshore on Monday, 1/9, and fished in more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Keeper gag, limits of snapper: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo at right is of a 34 inch king mackerel, our first king of the season, caught on an offshore trip Christmas Eve. Monday’s seas were predicted to be two to three feet, and I headed offs more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - 2006! 05' was here an outtahere. The Red Tide from Aug/Sept has caused more damage than I ever expected. Grouper Trolling has produced NADA for everyone. Where I scored limits last year has not even produced a short this year. So, let's take a look more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Kings are here! cobia, lots of lanes, mangs, trout: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at right is of a 26 inch gag grouper, caught on an offshore trip, mid-December. Saturday, 12/24, we got into some king mackerel, fishing in about 40 feet ou more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers