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

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - More nice kings, Spanish, mangrove snapper, lane snapper, sheepshead: Bonita Beach, SW FL I fished about five miles out of New Pass Monday with Richard Heimlich and Jeff Kirk. Seas were about four foot most of the morning, but it was worth it. U more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound, Florida - Welcome to Capt. Terry's FISHING REPORT: March 21st, 2006 Snook, The water temperatures are in the 70's and the snook are on the bite! The white bait has been showing up with the warmer temperatures and that means more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - Spring has Sprung!! While the arrival of winter was welcomed this year after the misery of last summer’s hurricanes, I was sure glad to see Old Man Winter leave. Late this February, the tarpon arrived on cue and provided a great distraction more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/18/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Monday, I had my first outing with Bob King and his good friend Paul Milquet, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was a great day of snooking. I began the day before the sun was up at the second sp more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - Spring and good fishing. 3-19-06web Warm weather and good fishing! It’s Spring Time and the fish are biting much better. Baitfish showed up last week and both fish and fisherman are glad to have em. Fishing has kept me too busy to catch up h more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - 22 lb. king mackerel, 100+ lb. nurse shark, sheepshead: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at right is of a 21 inch trout, caught on a recent backwater trip in Estero Bay. I fished the north end of Estero Bay Monday. We used live shrimp to cat more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Spring Break Cold fronts and heavy winds have been keeping us on our toes. Some of us have been lucky enough to score live bait by throwing nets in deep water. There have been some impressive days in the past few weeks. Water temperatures barely more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Monday, 3/6, seas were supposed to be calm, with a cold front not due to rough things up until late at night. Fishing in 30 feet out of New Pass, we had mostly 3 foot seas all morning. We caught four keeper sheepshead to 16 inches, a large triggerfis more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - The baitfish migration is here and the snook are feeding! The temps hit the mid to high 80's this week and the snook went on a feeding frenzy. We mainly used artificial lures even though the schools of sardines moved onto the flats. We caught more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/11/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Talk about a windy week! The ides of March are upon us with a vengeance! I hit the water Tuesday morning before 6 AM. The wind was howling out of the northwest at a good 25 MPH, and there more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound