Regional Fishing Reports for:
Southwest Florida (Cape Sable to Boca Grande)

Windy and Unpredictable - For as long as I've been in Florida, never have I seen the Tarpon bite so difficult to predict. OK, if you are saying or thinking Same on GiddyUp, never positive, never a glowing report like all the other guides, always the same old BS news. I'm tir more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Boca Grande to Ft Myers tarpon fishing - The past three weeks have been mostly spent hunting tarpon. It has been an excellent season so far. We have not had a day yet this month that we have not put at least two tarpon in the air. I am running two trips a day most of the time and we're more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Tarpon Jumping but not Feeding - On May 6 I took James out from Naples. We were looking for tarpon and saw four jumping offshore, but could not get them to feed. The only thing hitting were sharks and more sharks. We caught four 3 foot bonnets and four 3 foot lemon sharks. W more...
Capt. Jeff Buckley - Ten Thousand Islands

Snook,Redfish,Tarpon - Fishing the past couple of weeks has been very hot to luke warm. Winds kept us guessing from time to time but I found snook and redfish in the back bays of the Ten Thousand Islands. I spent a few days fly dishing and caught a few snook up to the s more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Ten Thousand Islands

Big tarpon are hungry, now! - 5-6-08 web. Tarpon are here and biting. We fished tarpon the last two days and it is great. Steve and Steven drove down from St. Pete. to share a day tarpon fishing together. Neither had ever caught a silver king and everything co-operated. more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Tarpon Hit or Miss in the 10,000 Islands - On April 24 I took Sal out from New York. We were in the backwater and saw juvenile tarpon roll. We hooked on 2 and got a 6 foot spinner shark that we fought for 3 hours. On the 25th and 26th I took out a Fishing Club out of Sarasota through Eve more...
Capt. Jeff Buckley - Ten Thousand Islands

It was one tough week out there! - This was an abbreviated work week, and a very tough one. Beside having a lot of wind to deal with again for a good part of the week, the fish have just been absolutely not interested in eating. The worst is that I, nor anyone I've talked to, has a more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

SW FL-Bonita Beach: Nearshore in 25 Knots; Redfish in the Bay - Ron Musick and Eddie Alfonso fished with me Monday, 4/28, when we were hoping to beat the weather front predicted to arrive late Monday night. We had originally planned to fish on Tuesday but we rescheduled once we heard the forecast. Seas were predi more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach

Naples and Marco report for May - Last weeks fishing in the Naples and Marco area, saw a lot of Boat Traffic. I think everyone was out to try and find the last keeper Snook for the Summer. Well, It did not work for me I am sorry to say my clients were not lucky enough to get a slot more...
Capt. Roan zumFelde - Naples

Hot/Cold/Hot/Cold/Hot/Hot/Cold/Cold - Another F-Cold front move through here today. Our weather has redefined Yo-yo. It is Tarpon Season and I am slammed. Pls allow me to cut straight through all the perfume and as always, deliver to you, the whole truth and nada but the truth. Tarpon more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers