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

Tarpon Rising - The tarpon have been pretty spread out,but their here in numbers if you have the conditions to spot them ,or blow one out when your searching. By searching I DONT mean running threw a bay and blow one out. What i'm refering to is to pole around an more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee

Sanibel Fishing charter - Sanibel Fishing This weeks Sanibel fishing Charters were warm and fishy. This week the bait moved in as the water warmed up. It has been like throwing on the switch. Spanish Mackerel have been cutting my leaders, while we are Trout fishing more...
Capt. Dave Andrews - Sanibel

Kings, Mangs, Sheepies, Porgies, Pompano & Trout - Fishing with Lynn and Margie Harned and friends Dave and Jeannie Jenkins on Monday, 3/16, we had a productive morning in 45 feet out of New Pass, using live shrimp. We caught six keeper mangrove snapper between 15 and 17 inches, a dozen whitebone por more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach

A Week Full of Big Trout and Keeper Snook! - Save for one day, it was a great week of fishing. The big yellow-mouth sow trout are thick in the right places, and there are some nice snook eating, too. The week began with Jim Olson and his good friend Gary, of Superior, Wisconsin. We had man more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

El Grande Snook, Kings, Grouper, and Cobia in SW FL - Dragging Yo-Zuri Clown DD Crystal Minnows in 26FT at the new Causeway Reef produced absolute CHAOS on Friday and 1/2 Day Saturday. My charter had the all the action on Friday but I loaned a good buddy (fellow Guide 3 of my Clowns) and he busted them more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Winds are too excessive to fish - For the next 3-4 days, wind and rain should be a bigger story than the fishing. An incredible Pompano run started Sat but ended Sunday. The weather is the big issue. It is what it is. more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

March Fishing Tarpon Snook Red Fish And Trout - Spring may have finally arrived. With the weather patten improving daily the fishing has steadily improved the only variable was the cold mornings scattered throughout March that made fishing conditions tough. These mornings made for some seriously t more...
Capt. Andy Boyette - Boca Grande

Spring Time Fishing in Naples - Wow, the water has warmed into the mid 70's and the fish have responded. Pilchards are all over the wrecks and big schools of threads have also shown up. They haven't quite made it to the beaches, but it won't be long. Be ready when they do, tarpon, more...
Capt. Chris McCubbin - Naples

Snook, Redfish, Sharks and Tarpon - All the major species are makeing their spring showings. We are coming into some of the best fishing of the year. Snook, redfish, trout, sharks, sheepshead, mackerel, snapper and even a few tarpon are raoming the flats and shorelines of Southwest Flo more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Spring Fishing In Full Swing! - Greetings everyone, I am very pleased to say that spring fishing here in Southwest Florida is has started very nicely thank you. Inshore / Backcountry water temps have reached seventy two degrees. Snook, Jacks, and Trout have all been active in more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers