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

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Wreck Slam Greetings, Crazy weather patterns have affected fishing lately. Morning thunderstorms, sloppy sea conditions, tropical systems. Mixed in have been beautiful chamber of commerce days like summer should be. I have only made two runs of more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Tarpon are still Hot! This week I spent most of my time fishing Pine Island Sound and Charlotte Harbor. The weather has been somewhat unstable but we have been able to get in most days by dodging the T-storms. Tarpon, snook and redfish are still m more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - Snook season is almost here and we still have tarpon. Captain Van Hubbard’s, Let’s Go Fishin’ report for 8-12-03. In case you’ve been out of state we have had a lot of rain recently. We took advantage of the time off to catch up and visit more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING 8/2/2003 by Capt. Butch Rickey I’ve had many great trips with many, many wonderful people, most of whom I fish with every year, or more frequently. But, this week will go down as one of the most fun weeks of my career, bar n more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Dog Days Of Summer It was as if someone had pulled the plug on a shallow swimming pool. There was a two-foot wide vortex of churning water where just a moment before was a hapless scaled sardine fluttering on the surface. My drag was having a majo more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Go for a Slam! Grand slams have been common the past two weeks. If you aren't familar with the inshore slam it consists of catching a tarpon, snook and redfish in the same day. All three species have been available in Charlotte Harbor and Pine I more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - It's not to late for great tarpon fishing. We enjoyed some awesome tarpon action this past week. 8-3-2003 We invested some time looking around but it paid dividends. Some days we had several double hook ups. We had two today. more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound, Florida - Welcome to Capt. Terry's FISHING REPORT: July 27th, 2003 Redfish, The past couple of weeks have been very good, landing as many as 10 to 20 in a few hours. The trick is being there when they are feeding. Try work more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Expect the Unexpected. I had a few nice surprises and one shocking let down. The first surprise was the comback of the tarpon fishing this late in Pine Island Sound and Marco Island. We are catching between 3 and 10 tarpon per day in Pine Island S more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/19/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey This will go down as the worst week of my guiding career. Oh, the fishing was good, but for a variety of reasons including black, fresh water, poor tides, bright nights on the full moon, the more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound