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

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - It felt like spring this week. Finally the fish are starting to bite. Weather co-operated this week and the fish responded wonderfully. We are not into the red hot spring bite but the snook are moving. There is no white bait yet so we are usi more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Naples & Marco Island, FL - Back Country and Offshore Fishing Naples to the Everglades Fishing has been a little slow the last two weeks. We have had a couple of wopper sized cold fronts that have pushed the fish off the feed. The good news is in the last couple of days th more...
Capt. Roan zumFelde - Naples

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Chammber Weather Permited! Greetings, One bit of noteworthy news. We have added a boat to our charter business. I am thrilled to announce that my son in law Capt. Jim Schnering has joined the Magic Hook team. Capt. Jim is running the boat that m more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 2/18/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Monday of this week saw the coldest weather of the year, after many days of weather almost as cold last week ushered in by the massive cold front that his the northeast so hard. The low Monday m more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Snapper, sheepies, a tripletail-slightly better bite this week: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at right is of a pair of gag grouper, caught on an offshore trip last month. Sunday and Monday this week remained rough offshore, not to mentio more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - March is just around the corner February is producing some very good fishing, although there are a few very cold days that are challenging (mostly for we anglers). Lots of smaller snook, many good sized redfish and a ton of trout are being caught more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 2/11/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey Between the seemingly constant barrage of cold fronts and the very poor tides this week, I didn’t get on the water until Friday. At 45 degrees, it was a cold morning to be on the water, and the more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Fishing in SW FL has been very difficult of late. Billions of gallons of fresh water are still being flushed down the C-Hatchie River. There is growing concern if a fix to this monumental problem is possible. Trout and Redfish have provided some chea more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Sheepies and trout in the shallow bay; rough offshore-cold fronts-A tough week of fishing in Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at right is of a 23 inch gag grouper, caught last month on an offshore trip. I was looking forward to some calm se more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - Fishing is fine and getting better with spring approaching. Web for 2-8-06 Experience is fine but you cannot beat fishing luck. On a recent trip to catch a few pompano for our guest fresh fish dinner Harry Perau showed me how it was done. Har more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande