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

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: redfish, mackerel, lane snapper Virginia Stafford, her sister Carol, and her grandsons Mac and William, fished Monday with me in Estero Bay, toward Wiggins Pass. We used live shrimp to catch a 20 inch redfish and keeper sheep more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - OK. I took considerable Flack over my last fishing report. Another Guide said GiddyUp, it is too negative. You are killing fishing in Ft. Myers. The following is my revised report. Yesterday (July 27, 2006)I gave my charter away to Capt. Davi more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/21/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Since I was off last week for this reporting period, I wasn’t going to write a report. But, after considering how much fun I had on a fishing trip up in Sarasota, I decided to go ahead an more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: Spanish mackerel, mangrove snapper, shark I fished Monday with John Maliszewski and friend, Joe, in 30 feet out of New Pass. We used live shrimp and dead shiners, free-lining for Spanish mackerel, and we caught thirty keeper more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - It's time to get your big snook or tarpon. Web for July 21, 2006 Fishing has slowed down but still fine. So far so good on red tide; none on the north side of Charlotte Harbor. It been big in the press so I wanted to let folks know that red more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Boca Grande, Florida Fishing Report - Hot Summer Bite Summer Tarpon Fishing is continuing in the upper harbor with good numbers of fish to be caught, early in the morning is best. Live threadfins under a float drifted through the area will produce. Avoid running through the area with more...
Capt. Andy Boyette - Boca Grande

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - NOW HERE THIS! IF YOUR PLANS INCLUDE SW FL PLS CANCEL THEM AND OPT FOR A VACATION ANYWHERE BUT THE FT. MYERS AREA. HELL, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, I WOULD RATHER BE IN BEIRUT OR TEXAS THAN IN SW FL. OUR RED TIDE SITUATION COULD ONLY BE DESCROBED AS HORR more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - STAY AWAY FROM SW FL! OUR REDTIDE IS THE WORST IN 60 YEARS. MAKE NO MISTAKE, THE WATERS OF SW FL LOOK LIKE BEIRUT. IF MY FELLOW GUIDES BLACKBALL ME FOR THIS REPORT, GOD BLESS THEM. I WOULD NOT WISH SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ON OSAMA BIN LADEN. I WILL NOT D more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/15/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Red tide is here! The biggest challenge for the week was keeping live bait just that........alive! There were other frustrations, too. But, we did manage to catch some fish. My first tri more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: African pompano, mutton snapper, mangrove snapper, lane snapper, goliath grouper, lemon shark, Spanish mackerel & stubborn tarpon I headed out about 65 miles with Gregg Bedell on his boat Monday, to fish the Stoney Point wrec more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers