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

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 2/25/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was to be a five day work week, but Dr. John Hitt was forced to cancel our trip on Sunday because of his ever changing duties as president of University of Central Florida. I also moved my Mo more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Mostly sheepshead and some tripletail: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at rigght is of the 7 pound tripletail caught this past Friday on an ofshore trip. I fished Monday, 2/20, in 34 feet out of New Pass. We caught a 15 inch black drum, fiv more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida - Naples, Marco, 10,000 Islands - Spring has Sprung I think the last few days of winter are upon us now! With the water temp in the 70's now fishing is starting to get consistent. Each day that goes by you see a sign of good things to come! Whether its the bait that is starting more...
Capt. Jeff Legutki - Ten Thousand Islands

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - It felt like spring this week. Finally the fish are starting to bite. Weather co-operated this week and the fish responded wonderfully. We are not into the red hot spring bite but the snook are moving. There is no white bait yet so we are usi more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Naples & Marco Island, FL - Back Country and Offshore Fishing Naples to the Everglades Fishing has been a little slow the last two weeks. We have had a couple of wopper sized cold fronts that have pushed the fish off the feed. The good news is in the last couple of days th more...
Capt. Roan zumFelde - Naples

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Chammber Weather Permited! Greetings, One bit of noteworthy news. We have added a boat to our charter business. I am thrilled to announce that my son in law Capt. Jim Schnering has joined the Magic Hook team. Capt. Jim is running the boat that m more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 2/18/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Monday of this week saw the coldest weather of the year, after many days of weather almost as cold last week ushered in by the massive cold front that his the northeast so hard. The low Monday m more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Snapper, sheepies, a tripletail-slightly better bite this week: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at right is of a pair of gag grouper, caught on an offshore trip last month. Sunday and Monday this week remained rough offshore, not to mentio more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - March is just around the corner February is producing some very good fishing, although there are a few very cold days that are challenging (mostly for we anglers). Lots of smaller snook, many good sized redfish and a ton of trout are being caught more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 2/11/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Between the seemingly constant barrage of cold fronts and the very poor tides this week, I didn’t get on the water until Friday. At 45 degrees, it was a cold morning to be on the water, and the more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound