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

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - It's been a fantastic tarpon season! The hot spot the entire month of June was Boca Grande Pass. If the tarpon wern't in the pass itself then they wern't far away. Most days consisted of jigs the pass in the morning and running the beaches and o more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - Snook and tarpon fishing is great. 6-21-05 web Sorry I’ve been to busy catching tarpon and snook to keep up here. Finally we have enjoyed some good weather and fishing. We’ve had some challenging days too. Tarpon are thick; snook and reds h more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Naples & Marco Island, FL - Fly Fishing in Naples Fished a couple of aggravated anglers the other day. The two arrived with bleack outlooks on the fly fishing in our area. I asked what prompted this and to make a long story short they related there past horror stories with more...
Capt. Roan zumFelde - Naples

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 6/18/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey It's a short report this week. The beginning of the week saw very poor tides that are not good for fishing. We're also beginning the summer slow down. The heat is here. We've got a big proble more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Yellowtail, mangs, mackerel, redfish & snook: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo at right is of a 26 3/4 inch redfish, caught on live shrimp, on a recent backwater trip in Estero Bay. I returned from some time off to fish Wednesday about 17 miles w more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Golaith Wars! Greetings, Summer pattern is in full swing now. After our first tropical system of the season dropped several inches of rain the Gulf is now tanic acid stained on the outgoing tides. In the passes and along the beach snook fishin more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - Summer Snook Bliss I am often asked, ‘What is the best time of year to be here?”.  That is always a difficult question to answer.  We have a year round fishing season here in the sub-tropics and some species or technique is almost more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 6/11/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey It’s Friday, June 10, as I sit here house-bound writing this report. The week began with great fishing for the first couple of days, and then slowed because of poor tides the next two days, more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Pine Island Sound, Charlotte Harbor & Matlacha Pass - Soggy week The rain was coming down as we pulled up to catch bait for this trip.I was wondering to myself that these guys must be some hard core fisherman to want to go in this rain.After 4 throws of the net the live well was filled to the rim wit more...
Capt. Glenn Grimes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - WEATHER REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 6/4/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey A wet butt, and a hungry gut! I read a book by that title a few years ago, and the main premise of that book was that if you live your life as a fishing guide/commercial fisherman, you'll more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound