Fall is Grand Slam Time in Naples and Marco Backwaters!
Capt. Todd Geroy
October 2, 2011
Naples - Saltwater Fishing Report
We greeted the beginning of October with a cool, breezy morning and with it brought some of the best mixed bag fishing I've experienced in some time.
I spent this morning with Bobby and Gary, repeat anglers from Atlanta. We fished the Naples Bay and Rookery Bay area with live sardines as well as 1/4 oz. jigs. The duo put the whammy on the snook boating and releasing over 40 throughout the morning with the largest being 34 inches. They also found some nice slot redfish, flounder, gag grouper, mangrove snapper and a nice juvenile tarpon to round out a grand slam for Bobby. Here is Bobby with a 34 inch snook before release...
October is one of my favorite months of the year as area waters load up with migrating bait fish and everything that eats them active all day long. We have some of our best snook and redfish fishing now through Thanksgiving along with some great juvenile tarpon action through out the back country and large fish in the passes and along the beach. Pompano are starting to show up in a couple back water channels already along with some bluefish and seatrout.
Live bait is abundant and easily caught with a cast net, but jigs can be more effective than bait at times and produce a great variety of species.
-Capt. Todd Geroy
Target Species:
snook, redfish, tarpon, flounder, mangrove snapper
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