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Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay
Capt. Dave Hanson
April 1, 2006
Fort Myers - Saltwater Fishing Report
52 inch king topped the scales:L Bonita Beach, SW FL
After a windy weekend, seas calmed down quite a bit on Monday, 3/28. I fished five and a half miles out of New Pass, with Ryan Startz and Jim Schrader, along with Jim’s sons, nine year old Kane, and eight year old Jack. Using live shrimp, Ryan landed a 52 inch king mackerel that topped out on our 30 pound Boga grip (see photo)—That was a good challenge on 12 lb. test! We also caught four sheepshead to 16 inches, a 17 inch bluefish, and keeper lane snapper.
Fishing with the Louis Wolfe party Tuesday, I returned the spots I had good luck at on Monday. We caught fifteen king mackerel to 44 inches, kept five of those, and released the rest, along with gag grouper shorts, mangrove snapper and sheepshead, all on live shrimp.
Ross Christiansen and family caught a few kings with me on Wednesday, but a couple of bull sharks tried to interfere. One shark grabbed a blue runner at the back of the boat, and ran off with all the line, and a second one took the bait and ran all the line off. But, we caught 8 kings to 30 inches, and released all but three, along with some small snapper.
Thursday, I fished at the reefs off New Pass with the Jim Kauffman party. They wanted to fish for some good eating fish, other than kingfish, so we fished a different spot with live shrimp. We caught keeper sheepshead, lane snapper and grunts, and released lots of blue runners.
Stuart Norris, Rich Meckler, Charles Hooley and son Matt fished with me Friday back at the king mackerel spots, about 5 miles out of New Pass, with live shrimp. We caught our limit of eight kings to 40 inches, then continued to catch and release several that were even larger.
Will McFarland and friend, John, fished Estero Bay, toward Wiggins Pass, with me Saturday morning. We caught an 18 inch trout, a 16 inch sheepshead, and released smaller sheepshead, mangrove snapper, cravalle jacks, and a 17 ¼ inch redfish.
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