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

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - RERORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 5/7/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey First up this week was Troy Gale, of Cape Coral. Troy was supposed to have been accompanied by his boss for this trip, but at the last minute he ducked out. We had storms just offshore, but more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - first kingfish; redfish bayside: Gulf & Bay report-Bonita Beach, SW FL The above 24 inch redfish was caught on a recent backwater trip in Estero Bay. Fearing more rough seas after a windy weekend, I fished Estero Bay and its creeks on Monday, more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Pine Island Sound, Charlotte Harbor & Matlacha Pass - Hi, Capt Glenn here to tell you that fishing is about as hot as it can get.You can name your poison.Tarpon are in and hitting real good.These fish are large fish over 100lbs up to 175lbs.They are smashing live baits in the Sound.Also a lot of small t more...
Capt. Glenn Grimes - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Tarpon lead the hit parade in SW FL. 'Poons' are showing up under residential canal docks, passes, and in the Gulf of Mexico. Joining them on the Hit Chart are King Mackerel, Cobia, and Tripletail. If you can afford 10 gallons of gasoline, you can ha more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Yellowtails, lanes, trout, redfish & lots of wind: Bonita Beach, SW FL Gulf & Bay Report The 16 and 19 inch sheepshead shown in the photo above were caught on a recent offshore trip. After the high winds Sunday, conditions were still sloppy Mo more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4/30/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey I love the guide business, but sometimes I wonder why anyone would want to be in it. It's such a fickle business in so many ways. We are at the mercy of the weather, the tides, the birds, h more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - Snook and pompano are bitting. Web report 4-25-05 Finally we have great fishing for snook and pompano. Weather has been the controlling factor for local fishing. We had good weather and good fishing recently; at least most of the time. The more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Grand Slam Time! It took a while this year but the tarpon are finally here in fishable numbers thoughout our region. I have been finding good numbers of tarpon from Everglades City to Boca Grande. We had success with cut bait, live herring and sof more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4/23/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey The week certainly began on a great note with my old friend Kevin Bressman, over from Orlando for a birthday trip with his dad, Joe, who was down visiting from Oklahoma. I hadn't seen Kevin more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Pine Island Sound, Charlotte Harbor & Matlacha Pass - Hi,folks fishing has steadily improved over the last few days.The snook have made a vast improvement over the last week.My clients have caught some nice snook and also lost some nice ones also.Snook to 30 have been hooked and lost with most of the s more...
Capt. Glenn Grimes - Fort Myers