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

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

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - The Tarpon fishing has been as good as it gets. The Redfish are all over Pine Island Sound. As a bonus, the Snook fishing is on fire but Snook are always easy to catch when you can't keep them. Big Tripletail can be found on remaining crab pot marker more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Naples & Marco Island, FL - Tarpon is the Word! This must be the time for Tarpon, every one that has fished this week, that is all they wanted to hear about. I felt bad for my Snook fishing because they had to take a back seat to the Silver King. I guess you figured out wh more...
Capt. Roan zumFelde - Naples

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 5/28/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a great week full of old friends and great people, marred only by a couple of days of big wind and a schedule screwup. First up on Monday were Bill Hudson, his son Mike, and his gran more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Redfish, permit, yellowtail, kings, amberjack, goliaths: Bonita Beach, SW FL I fished central Estero Bay Monday, around the oyster bars. We had a good success with live shrimp, and caught three keeper-sized redfish, two at 24 inches (see photo a more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers