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

Naples Tarpon Fishing - The tarpon bite in Naples has been hot. The action has been great for both big tarpon off the beaches and small tarpon in the backcountry. Most of the fish have been taken on thread herring fished under a cork or sight casted in front of a school. more...
Capt. Tony Fontana - Naples

Good tides, Great fish - This past week with good afternoon high tides was a treat, even though we had the full moon along with them we were able to catch nice trout, snook and spanish macks. I dont claim to know every in and out of the moon phases and how it effects fishing more...
Capt. Cliff Simer - Matlacha

Sanibel Island fishing Charter - Tarpon fishing around Sanibel Island is now in full swing. Lots of Tarpon have migrated to our area and will continue to move in for the month of May and June. Some of the silver kings will hang around until July and August. I have split my t more...
Capt. Dave Andrews - Sanibel

Sharks Chasing Our Redfish - This was the one slow week I have during April, with only one trip. The next two weeks are busy. The trip was on Friday with Bill Ozzie Oswald, of Chicago, Illinois. I met Ozzie at 6:30 AM at the Circle K at Summerlin and John Morris, as he an more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Solid Inshore Action on Naples and Marco Island Waters - While I must say that we have had some great trips on the water in April, this last week was the most solid fishing we've experienced this spring. I ran 11 trips in 6 days and can report that all of them enjoyed great fishing action. Tarpon are more...
Capt. Todd Geroy - Naples

Southwest Florida Fishing for Redfish, Sharks, Snook and more - Strong tides with big afternoon highs gave us good opportunities for a host of fish around the waters of Pine Island. The bite wasn't always red hot, possibly due to the full moon, but fishing was good overall each day. A mixed bag of sea trout, Sp more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound

Ft Myers to Boca Grande Tarpon Fishing Report for April - I started consistently catching tarpon on April 7th and its been pretty good ever since. A hard cold front hampered the fishing for a day but that was about it. The tarpon are holding in all of the usual places. The gulf south of Sanibel, all the more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Tarpon action is a little late but heating up - Fishing with cut catfish is not my style but doing so has been producing some great local action. For whatever reason I've always enjoyed throwing a Thread-Fin-Herring in front of moving tarpon but we are not quite there yet. If you love to tarpon more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

SW FL-Bonita Beach: Grouper, Snapper, Kingfish & More - No oil—No spoil Our Beaches are Clean—Our Waters Pristine Monday morning, 4/4, I fished the near-shore reefs off Bonita Beach with Tim and Stephanie Cobb and their two children, Spencer and Sydney. We were fishing just ahead of a weather-front more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach

BustnLoose Backwater Fishing Report.. - This weeks fishing was great with some little guys catching lots of snook and redfish. The baits of choice have been big threads along with some pilchards on a 1/0 circle hook. I've been fishing the incoming tides and found big numbers of snook alo more...
Capt. Joey Benko - Naples