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

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - Snook season opens on Friday. Web 8-06. Captain Van Hubbard’s fishing report for 8-24-06 We got rained out on our Friday trip. When I launched the Dorado at %:30 AM it looked great. There was just one small shower on radar, but not a big deal. more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 8/26/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Slow is still the operative word. I only have one trip to talk about this week. It was a really nice day with my old friend Jim Dougall, who lives in Cape Coral. Jim is now 70 and has sur more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach, near shore: Nice Spanish & Snapper Uli and Uta Scheider fished with me Monday, in 40 feet out of New Pass, with live shrimp. We caught keeper Spanish mackerel to 25 inches, and keeper yellowtail snapper. We released some yell more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - Let's Go Fishin' Web 8-20-06 Fishing has some hot spots. It was slower this week but we had a great trip Friday with Tim, Sue and Mike McLees from central Florida. They came over to try out some Gulf coast fishing. We had held off till late more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 8/19/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Man, is this a slow summer. I can see it in the restaurants, motels, stores, and on the streets. I did manage to get in two trips. The first trip was on Tuesday, when I did a two boat tri more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SWFL-Bonita Beach: bay and near-shore report I fished Wednesday in 30 feet out of New Pass, around the reefs, with Joe Soboloski and his three sons. We used live shrimp to catch keeper mangrove snapper, lane snapper, and Spanish mackerel. We rel more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Title this fishing report Returning to Normal except our Bait Situation. Only small strains of Red Tide remain and if you happen through it, SAY-LA-VEE to all your bait. Sunday (Aug 13th) was a good day in Pine Island Sound. Everyone has been wa more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: permit to 26 lbs., 28 lb. cobia, shark, pompano, hogfish, snapper & Spanish mackerel Roger Meir and fifteen year old son, Phillip, from Switzerland, fished with me Monday at the reefs off Bonita Beach. We used live shrimp to more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - a close call but we have good fishing again. Right now it looks like we may get lucky. We had a brush with some red tide. It looked bad for a few days but the dead fish are gone. We lost some bait minnows and some fish but waters look very go more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 8/5/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey The red tide seems to be behind us now. And, even on some pretty poor tides, the fishing was pretty good this week. Bill Palda, over from the east coast, was first up on Monday. Bill was the more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound