Ft. Myers - Offshore

Capt. Rick Featherstone
November 28, 2005
Fort Myers - Saltwater Fishing Report

Winter Pattern Emerging

Greetings,

First let me apologize for the long delay. Wilma caused us some problems with our computer system.

In general fishing is tough since that last cold front, but we are catching plenty of fish on our charters. We are just running further and working harder.

Things are changing with the seasons in our fishing area. The week before last we did launch a few big tarpon along the beach, landing three big ones over one hundred and fifty pounds. But the looking is getting harder, and the runs longer so we have switched gears to king mackerel as our main target lately. Working tide lines, bottom contours, and working bait has produced lots of action for our anglers even on the sloppy days. When live baiting we have used both ladyfish and blue runners with good success. Most of the kings are in the twelve to eighteen pound range, but we did catch three over twenty including one thirty five pound fish that ate a jack off the kite line.

There are some big cobia in the area. We hooked two exceptional fish this week working wrecks. Both were five feet or longer but we lost them both, on when a double hookup crossed lines, the other on a crab buoy line. Big jacks are offshore as well as lemon sharks to keep you busy waiting for a bite.

We caught one goliath grouper this week, a pretty one hundred pound fish that really gave us a tussle. There are some nice snapper on the rock piles, we caught them bait fishing as well as some gag groupers. We had a great time one afternoon catching and releasing several gags on light tackle using jigs.

Tight Lines,

Capt. Rick

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