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

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Winter Pattern Emerging Greetings, First let me apologize for the long delay. Wilma caused us some problems with our computer system. In general fishing is tough since that last cold front, but we are catching plenty of fish on our more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Cold Fronts run fish into the backcountry. We have begun to see frequent cold fronts push into our area. The fishing has been very good inbetween the fronts but if you try to go against Mother Nature your probably going to be dissapointed. As more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 11/26/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey I only had one trip on the books for the week because of the Thanksgiving Holidays. I was to fish with my old friend Mike May on Tuesday, but a cold front passed on Monday wrecking the weather more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Nice sheepshead bayside; nice mangs & lanes offshore: Bonita Beach, SW FL Monday brought rain, high winds and seas, in advance of a cold front, and I was forced to remain in port. Tuesday was very windy, and it was tough anchoring in the bay, bu more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Fall Flush Fishing these past few weeks has been very productive. The fall bait migration started a few weeks ago. There was a mix of scaled sardines, threadfin herring, and hordes of Spanish sardines from the beach to near shore. That means that more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Pine Island Sound, Charlotte Harbor & Matlacha Pass - Windy trip The wind was howling as I pulled up to the dock to pick up my clients.After picking up my clients we took off for what would turn out to be a very bumpy ride.I was thinking this crazy to be on the water on a day like this.But we tried o more...
Capt. Glenn Grimes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 11/19/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a busy week, mostly with old friends. But, we managed to work a couple of new folks in, too. The Talon was ready for business, as my long-time mechanic and friend Danny Fowler, of Fowle more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Cuda got the gag--left us lanes, mangs, yellowtail & sheepies: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at right is of a 17 inch sheepshead, caught on a recent offshore trip. I fished Monday, at a drop-off about 26 miles out of new Pass. We caught s more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound, Florida - Welcome to Capt. Terry's FISHING REPORT: Nov. 15th, 2005 Snook, The water temperatures are in the 70's and the snook are very active trying to put some weight on before the winter months. We've been catching some more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 11/12/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a full week this week with a mixture of new customers and old friends. It was a fun week. The week began with a trip way up the river to pick up Dr. John Hitt's boat and bring her home more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound