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

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Hippee! Our limit of 1 Snook begins Feb 1st! How about that fishing fans? 1 Redfish. Jeb Bush proclaims Florida as the Fishing Capital of the World. Jeb is almost as good of a Snake Oil salesman as a close relative of his (Hint: Not his Dad who is more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 1/28/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey I spent most of the week in Sarasota, again this week, and managed to get out on the water twice. I met my old friend John Wolfgang Franck for breakfast Monday morning, before hitting the wat more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - 25 lb. jack, snapper, more wind: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at right is of a unusually large (for this area) cravalle jack, weighing 25 lbs., caught this past Wednesday in Estero Bay. Tuesday, fishing 17 miles out of New Pass, in 40 f more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - Fishin' is improving with the god weather. Every day is very different right now. One day the sheepshead bite the next they just tease us. We get on what seams to be a pattern with the pompano and get surprised. Trout are here and co-operat more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Southwest Florida - Naples, Marco, 10,000 Islands - Gangin up on the back water Gags Jan. 25,2006 Naples- 10,000 Islands After my last report, we havn't been hit by another strong front yet! Could it almost be over.......God I hope so! If this keeps up like this the tarpon are going to be here b more...
Capt. Jeff Legutki - Ten Thousand Islands

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Gator Trout Action! Winter trout fishing is usually the best trout fishing of the year and this winter is no different. We usually put up good numbers of trout most of the year but the quality of fish the last few weeks has been better than ad more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 1/21/06 by Capt. Butch Rickey My week began on Sunday with my good friend Dr. John Hitt. We’d elected to cancel our Saturday trip because of the approaching front, and it turned out to be a very good decision. It was li more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Lots of wind, then snapper at week's end: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at right is of a 23 inch gag grouper, caught last week on an offshore trip. Weather did not cooperate with the full week of fishing I had planned. After a very gusty more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - How windy is it on Pine Island Sound? It is so windy that Dudes on windsurfers are passing my 24FT Bay Boat with 225 GiddyUps on the transom (in SC The Good Ole' Boys call it a TRANDSOM. Heavy on the D that ain't there) Here what's happening in th more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - Fishing has been very good for snook and redfish here recently. The tarpon however have not been very cooperative and may not be until March!. Speckled trout, in large numbers, are making the group trips a blast with many triple and even quad hookup more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City