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

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - Busy helping Santa but fishing again soon. 12-19-03 Busy with Christmas and fishing again soon. It’s been cold and windy most of the time so we are busy helping Santa. We did slip out a few times and look for cobia and tripletail. There are more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 12/13/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey Monday was the first full day after the passing of the first big cold front of the season. I knew it would be a tough day to fish, as we the temp was in the 40's, and it was howling form t more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Winter Whirl Winter is definitely here. This past week the winds were stiff, the skies were gloomy at times, and the water temperature took another plunge. There were some pleasant breaks in the weather throughout the week as well. Plenty of f more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Tailing reds and Duck Hunting Report Tis the season for hunting, both on the water and off. Most of the fishing that I have been doing is sightfishing in shallow water for tailing redfish snook and trout and sheephead. On days when I haven't b more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - Strong Snook Bite In Early December The snook bite here in Everglades National Park this last week has been strong ... exceptionally strong.  It should remain so as long as the weather cooperates.  Cobia, King Mackerel, Spanish Mackerel, more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 11/29/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey It's Thanksgiving week, and a week with much to give thanks for. Four trips, old friends, new friends, and good fishing to name just a few. It was a good week. I met my good friend Dr. John more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - We are thankful for our good fishing and health. 12-01-03 Thanksgiving has passed and we were blessed with great fishing. We only had one poor catching day last week and it was not bad just slow compared to our other catches. The good news more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Seasons Change Greetings, Greetings, Its hard to find a place to start. Things are changing quickly but here goes. Last week loads of tarpon showed up along the Sanibel beach. They were starving and we caught them like it was going out of styl more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - December’s Winter Mix (Dan Greisel and wife Maria with Dan's first tarpon)November produced some superb fishing.  Trout were very abundant.  Lots of snook and redfish were caught on practically every trip.  The cobia, sheep head, more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Winds of Change Cold winds from the north have started the cange from fall to winter. Water temps have dropped about 8 degrees in the last two weeks and fish are on the move. Snook, redfish, trout, mackerel, bluefish and grouper were on the catchi more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers