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

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

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Variety Spices Up Fishing Greetings, The one thing that is constant and consistent lately is change. Changing conditions, water quality, bait, have kept me on my toes every day. Fish one pattern today does not mean anything tomorrow morning. Tha more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - Tarpon are still bitting. Fishin’ has been fine. We are not as busy now but still getting out enough to stay on top of things. We had some great tarpon action last Friday. We had to look to locate a hungry school but they chewed when we got on t more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/12/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey I guess water clarity and quality is still the big issue this week, and will likely be for a while. Our water is still like black coffee, and almost fresh in the Sound. Good sized bait is s more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Catch of a Lifetime! This past Friday I got a nice 5.3 pound baby girl. It was quite a surprise being that my wife was not due to have our first child until August 11th. She was small but in perfect health and everything is fine with both of them. more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/5/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey For the first time in a while, weather wasn't a major factor this week. It was a week of high, but not very strong tides, and we managed to do pretty well with the redfish on the four trips t more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Heating Up It was like fishing inside a greenhouse this past week. Temperatures hit the nineties. There was barely a breath of air on the water and it looked as if the sky and water had no beginning or end. Boat traffic is minimal. There has b more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Vacation Greetings, Have you ever wondered what a fishing guide does on vacation? Right! We go fishing. My lovely wife, two daughters with husbands, grandson, mother, father, aunt and uncle all headed for Marathon, Florida with our boats his pas more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/5/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey For the first time in a while, weather wasn't a major factor this week. It was a week of high, but not very strong tides, and we managed to do pretty well with the redfish on the four more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound