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 9/30/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Fishing was about as hard as it get this week. For me, at least! The red tide lingered, the fresh continues to come down the river, and I actually heard the media interviewing some business more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: Spanish mackerel & snapper After a couple of slow weeks, I finally got back offshore fishing on Saturday, with Scott Fandrich, brother Shon Fandrich, and friends Bill Fisher, Lonnie Stuber, and Mark Tullin. We fished with liv more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 9/23/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey I only got to run two of the four trips I had scheduled this week. So, it was another typically slow week. And, if things aren’t slow enough, we now have the red tide back in the Sound! more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 9/16/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey As I mentioned in last week’s report, my one trip this week was a donated trip to Operation Open Arms, an organization formed by my friend Capt. John “GiddyUp” Bunch for the benefit of our so more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: 'cuda-bitten bonito, Spanish mackerel, nice redfish, sheepies, snapper Monday, I fished Estero Bay with Bob Green and Ben Edgell. We started out fishing tree lines and oyster bars on a higher tide, and released a 17 inch redf more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida - Naples, Marco, 10,000 Islands - Sept 16 Fishing Report Estero, Naples, 10k Islands and Everglades National Park Fall is on the way! Fall is on the way! Red fish are starting to gather and make large schools, as well as tarpon starting to make their way back south for the winte more...
Capt. Jeff Legutki - Ten Thousand Islands

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - Let's Go Fishin' now. September offers varied opportunities. Our inshore fish are all in season for harvest. Snook are moving and hungry. Reds are schooled up and traveling. Trout does close next month and are small but biting now. Mackere more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Naples & Marco Island, FL - Naples and Marco Fishing report for September Well almost half way thru September and no hurricanes. Thats the good news. The bad news is we have been fighting lots of freshwater run off which is producing a bit of red tide up and down the coast more...
Capt. Roan zumFelde - Naples

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEN ENDING 9/2/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey As I mentioned in the previous report, I had only one trip on the books again this week. It was a trip with my old friend of many years now, Marty Dietz, and his beautiful girlfriend, Janice. more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: Goliath grouper & mangrove snapper After a pretty soggy Labor Day weekend, I headed offshore Tuesday with Larry Kavulich and friend, Bruce. There was still plenty of rain around, but we managed to skirt most of it, and seas w more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers