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

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/8/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey The big issue for us guides in Pine Island Sound this week was bait. After showing up on the flats real well, it disappeared. Bait was tough, and in fact I didn’t find any one day. As bait g more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/1/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey This will go down as a record week for me, record in a negative way. I lost three of my trips this week; two to cancellations, and one to a no-show. In my fifteen years of guiding, I’ve neve more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Spring Arrives! Greetings; With water temperatures steadily on the rise our hopes of pelagic's like kingfish rise each day. The bait migration into the area has started. A few kings, permit, and even a sailfish have been hooked this past more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Jacks and Sharks! This week was spent fishing out of Chokoluskee and Marco Island. The water has warmed into the 70's and live bait has moved into the area and some of the big preditors are already here. Jacks dominated our catches out of both a more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Bring On The Heat I know that it has been awhile since my last report. Life has been happening at a quick pace. The water temperatures have made a dramatic climb in the past few weeks. Rising temperatures are bringing the fish out of the woodwork. more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound, Florida - Welcome to Capt. Terry's FISHING REPORT: Feb. 27th, 2003 Redfish, Now that the weather has gotten to be more seasonal and the water temperature is warming up. The redfish have come back on the bite. I have done more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - The Chokoloskee State of Mind    Most anglers long to be on the water, but few have the luxury to fish whenever and wherever they want.  Most of us have to balance work, family, vacations amongst a host of other issues before a day more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/22/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a good week of fishing, but the catching was not always great. The front that came through Monday seemed to really shut things down, and bait became very tough to catch. I did have more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - With spring comes Wind! The good news is that spring like conditions are becoming more prevelent which means tarpon, snook and sharks are on the move. The bad news is that early spring is usually windy. This year seems to be just that. I fishe more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - Everglades National Park Warms ... Finally!! Everglades National Park Warms ... Finally!! It feels like South Florida again!!  With temperatures approaching 80 degrees and the water warming fast the Everglades National Park is once again more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City