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

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Jacks and Kings What a Pair! Greetings, Well it’s a busy spring for sure. Our SKA (Southern Kingfish Association) division eleven tournaments have completed. Our team consisting of Mark Combs, MJ Combs, their daughter Brittany, my wife Liz, and more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Windy but nights are calm. Fish are everywhere King Macks: I loaded up on Kings on Saturday but paid the price for my success by NOT leaving until the wind came up instead of ANTICIPATING the wind would come up and leaving a little early. I knew b more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - fishing is fair and will improve when the winds back off. Some nice snook but the wind has slowed us down. Mike Trask of Port Charlotte and Nova Scotia brought his son and his girl friend out on Monday. We found plenty of fish but the snook we more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - Boca Grande Spring snook action picks up. Snook and reds are biting; Spring is here. March 28th. Sorry to be out so long but I had some surgery on my hand and was off the water awhile. Everything is healing fine and I started back to fishing more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 3/27/2004 by Capt. Butch Rickey This week has to go down as one of the windiest on record, even for the month of March. We had wind gust to 35 MPH nearly every day, and steady winds at 25. It made getting to and from the fi more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Windy, Blown Out, and it stinks for everyone (Except of course for the guys who report great fishing in Hurricanes) It was very disappointing to cancel three (3) trips this week because of the freaking wind. White caps in Estero Bay and white caps more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Tarpon and Permit! Tarpon and permit were the stars of the show last week before the winds and cold moved in on us. Warm spring like weather and light winds combined to produce the best catches of the year so far off Marco Island. Since then howev more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - Dennis the Menace In a recent article, I spouted on about how wonderful it is to have kids on board. They get great pleasure in catching fish and I get great pleasure in watching them. The effect that getting them involved with fishing has on thei more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Reds, Trout, Sharks! The reds ,trout and sharks went off in Pine Island Sound this past week. We caught alomost record numbers of trout and reds on all but one day since my last report. Snook were mixed in as well but the bite has been a littl more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Spring Time Greetings, Spring is in the air for sure. Problem for me though this week has been the flu keeping me off my game. On the days I got out bait was abundant, a throw or two and the live well was blacked out. Lots of bait in the area no more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers