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 5/12/07 by Capt. Butch Rickey The big front that passed through last weekend really wrecked the fishing for the tarpon guys, and along with awful inshore tides made things difficult inside, too. more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: rough seas, goliaths galore, 7 foot bull shark The calm winds and seas of last week didn’t hold too long. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday brought strong gusty winds and high seas, which caused me to reschedule my offshore angle more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - As previously mentioned, wind has played absolute havoc with SW FL fishing. For March and April, how about 9 days out of 61 of wind 14MPH or less. For the first 8 days of May, the pattern has not changed. So much for the weather report but as you kno more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: Another blackfin tuna! Kingfish, shark, gag, snapper I was in port on Monday, but I fished Tuesday in 80 feet on a 265 heading out of New Pass with anglers Jim McCarthy and friend, Dan. We had one great day fishing. Baited wit more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - Great fishing now. Weather and fishing are finally back into normal patterns. We have enjoyed some good action and beautiful weather this past week. We closed out snook season with some nice fish. Catching was as good a usually but we did get more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 4/28/07 by Capt. Butch Rickey The winds were forecasted to still be blowing 25 MPH on Monday, so my best friend Jim McDaniel, and his brothers Don and Del, and sister Aleta decided to scrub our more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound, Florida - Tarpon: There Here!!! It's time to start booking your tarpon trips! May and June are prime months, for the Silver King. These critters will range from 40 lbs. to 200 lbs. with the average being around 100 lbs. The Silver King is a fish of a life time more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Fishing in SW FL is On Fire! Nature has way of protecting her innocent. Wind. How windy has it been? How about these numbers. From March 1, 2007 to April 30th there have been 9 fishing days with wind LESS THAN 15MPH. 9 freakin days in 2 months. more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Giant tarpon, snook and school reds Tarpon have been here for a few weeks and with the recent good weather the fishing has really turned on. I have found fishable numbers of fish from Punta Gorda to the north and Pine Island to the south. Drifti more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida - Naples, Marco, 10,000 Islands - Flyfishing is on fire The month of May is finally here and the fishing has been on fire. The weather is finally starting to be stable and the spring winds that have been haunting us are pretty much over. Flyfishing in the 10k islands and the Eve more...
Capt. Jeff Legutki - Ten Thousand Islands