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 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

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach Offshore: Spanish mackerel, lane snapper, mangrove snapper, moon fish, goliath, red grouper Fishbuster Charters’ Captain Dave Hanson reported, “Graham Connor and fifteen year old son, Brenden, fished with me in 35 feet out of more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida - Naples, Marco, 10,000 Islands - Fishing Report for August Estero, Naples, Marco Island, 10,000 Islands, Everglades National Park The month of August has got to be the quietest month of the year when it comes to boat traffic! Whether its due to the heat or the fact that the lo more...
Capt. Jeff Legutki - Ten Thousand Islands

Naples & Marco Island, FL - Naples and marco Fishing Report July has been a very wet month, which is not all bad for our small Tarpon and Snook Fishing. There seems to be small Tarpon showing up everywhere in the back Country from Naples to Marco and even a few big one's ar more...
Capt. Roan zumFelde - Naples

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - In searching for a proper opening, I have good news and bad news. As my last report was noting but bad news, first the good news. Most of the millions of Dead Fish have decomposed. Sightings of dead fish are therefore the exception not the rule. Now more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers