Naples Fishing Reports

Spring Smiles! - Things have been crazy lately with great catches and lots of happy anglers. Bait has been tough moving up and down the coast but with some good throws you can load up the wells with some pilchards. I've been hitting a few spots early for trout acti more...
Capt. Joey Benko - Naples

March Freshwater Scene for Naples, Marco and the Everglades - March is here and everyone will be looking for bedding bass this month. Whether on lakes or canals the bass should be hungry for forage to sustain themselves through the spawning time on the new moon and full moon. I am a big believer in not messin more...
Capt. Roan zumFelde - Naples

If It's Blowing We're Going! - The wind has been blowing the last couple days! Small Craft Advisory through the weekend and seas at 3'-5' just a few miles offshore. Last night I called the crew and gave them the option to cancel, but they still wanted to give it a shot. I'm gla more...
Capt. Ted Gibson - Naples

Signs of Spring Fishing in the Naples Backwaters - It has been a great month of fishing so far. I have fished daily and most of the trips this month have focused on typical winter pattern fishing with good numbers of the more cool water tolerant species. Sheepshead, mangrove snapper, sea trout, pomp more...
Capt. Todd Geroy - Naples

Offshore Mixed Bag - We have been lucky with the fishing the last couple of charters and have been putting some really nice fish in the boat! Had some big kiddos with the Billman party Saturday morning and some little kiddos with the Grand Party Saturday afternoon! Both more...
Capt. Ted Gibson - Naples

Naples Fishing - Inshore Fishing & Backwater Fishing - The redfish and trout bite has been excellent the past week. From rat reds to overslot fish have been caught recently as well as trout from 15-23. Pompano have been on the seen, not in numbers but the ones tha more...
Capt. Jeremy Kiley - Naples

The February Freshwater Scene for Naples to The Everglades - The Hype of the New Year is over and we are on to February. I hope all had a great start to the New Year and I hope our weather in February is nice and mild with no freezes this year. I will have to first apologize for the February article because more...
Capt. Roan zumFelde - Naples

Good Weather and Good Fishing - We were out on charters Sunday and Monday. Fished in about 45' of water both trips over live bottom. We tried closer areas both days, but nothing was happening. We got into plenty of Lane Snapper to make dinner and caught Red Grouper to 19 and 15/ more...
Capt. Ted Gibson - Naples

Cool Weather = Hot Inshore Fishing in Naples Backwaters - I have been very busy for the last month running trips daily while enjoying some great winter fishing. Anglers have consistently had great catches of a variety of species on the inshore waters. Sea trout, redfish, pompano, sheepshead, black drum, m more...
Capt. Todd Geroy - Naples

Snapper, Sheepshead, and some Largemouth - Had a couple of offshore trips the last couple days. The water has been dirty with visibility 12 miles offshore only at about a foot. We have been fishing over natural reefs in about 45' of water. The snapper have been biting well with the cloudy more...
Capt. Ted Gibson - Naples