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2015-01-01
9:20 PM
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Excellant Bite Throughout the Bays - Guys: You can expect to hook up with scads of fat sea trout, slot reds and release snook. Big sheepshead and black drum are on a chew with plenty of snappers for company. If your up for a tug of war, sharks are plentiful in the bays. Fly guys caught more...
Capt. Ron Kowalyk - Fort Myers |
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2014-12-28
5:08 PM
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Estero Bay: Snook - Redfish - Sheepshead - Yesterday was a wonderful weary morning in the bay. I found that the bait of choice was shrimp, though, one could find decent whitebait around Big San Carlos.
Snook were active and hiding in deeper water that was moving swiftly. The turn of the t more...
Capt. Joe Angius - Estero Bay |
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2014-12-27
9:36 AM
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Estero Bay Fishing Report - The cooler mourning's has provided anglers with some options. The spotted seatrout bite this past week was pretty good with some overslot fish being caught on the flats near the passes. Bouncing shrimp tipped jig heads or 2/0 circle hooks with spli more...
Capt. Jon Fetter - Estero Bay |
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2014-12-22
4:10 PM
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Thanksgiving Week Fun With My Friend Don Marano - Report for the week ending 11/29/14........
I had a full week on tap for the Thanksgiving week, but weather and schedule changes reduced it to two trips.
My good friend Don Marano and I had been blown off the water on Thursday, the 20th, after more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound |
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2014-12-21
11:34 AM
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Exploring New Water With An Old Friend - Report for week ending 11/15/14...........
Just one trip to talk about this week, and it was the first with my good friend and fishing buddy, Don Marano, here from Salt Lake City for a fall vacation. We had been wanting to explore the east side o more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Matlacha |
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2014-12-20
11:47 AM
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Big Sheep Return; Grouper Action Good! - Long-time customers, Erwin and Millie Metusiak fished the backwaters with me on Monday morning, 12/8/14. Using live shrimp, the couple caught and boxed two pompano at 14 inches and 15 inches, along with a 13-inch sheepshead. They released some smalle more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2014-12-18
11:26 AM
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When its Cold, Dredge the Deeper Spots - Backbay: The bite was a little tougher on the flats with sluggish winter neap tides very low in the morning but it was really chilly so it was no big loss. You however, dredge the creeks, river and docks on the deeper channels for snapper, sheepies, more...
Capt. Ron Kowalyk - Fort Myers |
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2014-12-18
8:13 AM
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Warming Trend sets Stage for a Great Bite! - Cooler water temperatures proved to be a bit of a problem for fishing in southwest Florida over the past couple of weeks but things are improving with a recent warming trend. The weather pattern is suppose to slide toward the 80 degree mark this comi more...
Capt. Rob Modys - Fort Myers |
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2014-12-17
7:36 PM
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17 Dec 2014 Slow day But some Monster Reds - 17 Dec 2014
Slow fishing day but still on the Monster Reds today
I was supposed to have a charter today but they cancelled on me last night. So since I already had everything ready I decided to phone a friend and go out fishing for the fun of it more...
Capt. Jim Conant - Matlacha |
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2014-12-16
5:58 PM
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Fishing is good despite the cooler water temps! - The fish hasn't mind the drop in the water temps. Redfish and snook are the main targets around the creek mouths using live pilchards. Chumming the water will get the fish motivated to feed with the cooler water temps. There's been a lot of small re more...
Capt. Scott Theis - Fort Myers |
