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

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook, Reds, Trout and a few Tarpon. Sorry about the lack of reporting for the last month but as most of you know I live down in Everglades National Park for the month of March and April and I don't have internet access. The tarpon moved in as goo more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4/5/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey What was supposed to be a six day work week was reduced to three days by an evil, wicked, mean, and nasty cold front that came rumbling through here last Sunday. I brought with it record cold more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - March Winds in Chokoloskee --Still March 20 – John Horstmeyer (Naples) fishing with his son, David and grandson Mike (St. Louis, Mo.) battled the 25 mph winds in search of snook.  It was an all around tough day, but we managed quite a few b more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Any Way The Wind Blows March has proven to be as unpredictable as it can be. The first few weeks of March were warm and pleasant. It appeared that spring would come in like a lamb. For all practical purposes, it did. The winds were mild and the we more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/22/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a full week replete with windy days, red tide, problems keeping bait alive, and great snook fishing. The weekly average was about five keeper snook per day of all the snook caught, as more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Boca Grande, Florida Fishing Report - Spring Snook Redfish And Tarpon The spring fling is on! Snook redfish trout and nighttime tarpon are cooperating well. Redfish action has been good throughout the Charlotte Harbor area with big oversize fish being caught in good numbers. There a more...
Capt. Andy Boyette - Boca Grande

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/15/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey The week began with very poor tides, and predictably tough fishing. Yet, we had some great trips, lots of fun, and caught some nice fish. The catching improved as the tides improved. Bait more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - March Madness Snook were boiling in the fast moving current on the point. They were taking advantage of the crippled scaled sardines that I threw in the likely spot. “I’m hooked up”, Bob shouted. “I’ve got one too”, his friend Larry yelled. I more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - Chokoloskee Island and Everglades National Park Fishing Report - March 13, 2003 Well it really is March.  One day it blows and the next it doesn't.  I have missed the last week of fishing due a nasty intestinal critter that has kept very more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Big Boys Back In Town! Greetings; Mother nature sent us some great weather last week and the fish responded. Large schools of bait have migrated into the area with the rising water temperatures. Permit, kings, cudas, spanish, and tarpon are all more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers