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

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/1/2003 by Capt. Butch Rickey After seeing some of the coldest weather in decades last week, we actually began a much needed warming trend this week. Gulf waters off the coast of Ft. Myers actually got into the high 50' more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - Cold Days and Hot Fishing in Chokoloskee Cold Times and Hot Fishing in Chokoloskee!! This has been one of the coldest Januarys that I can remember.  While the temperature only dipped below 40 degrees a few nights, this entire month was more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Cold water but fishing is still good! 56 degree water temperatures have made fishing tough the past few weeks but overall the fishing is still very good. Don't expect to catch warm water species like snook and tarpon. But, if your not a snob about more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 1/25/2003 by Capt. Butch Rickey Cold fronts, cold water, and slow fishing continue to be the order of the day here. There seems to be no end to the cold weather. That pretty much leaves speckled trout and sheephead as o more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Reef Fishing Heats Up Cold Water Greetings; All of my fishing now is worked around the twice weekly cold fronts passing through. Some are strong, others are less significant, but all affect how and where we fish. Depending on where the last fron more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Beat of a Different Drum! If you want to catch some drum, come to the 10,000 Islands. We have been invaded with juvenile black and red drum. Some days we catch more reds and some days more blacks. Snook have also been consistent along with sheephe more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound, Florida - Welcome to Capt. Terry's FISHING REPORT: Jan. 20th, 2003 Redfish, The weather the last couple of weeks has given us cold front after cold front. The water temperature has dropped into the low 60's. We have done very well on some of the more extrem more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 1/18/03 by Capt. Butch Rickey Winter just refuses to let go of her grip on Florida this year. It's been another week of cold, windy weather for the most part, and the fishing is still very slow. My friend Marc Denton a more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Winter's Grip Back to back cold fronts are still passing through the country. It is typical of the winter months. After one more cancellation, I am sitting here with the heat on at one thirty P.M. and it is forty eight degrees outside. Actually more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 1/11/2003 by Capt. Butch Rickey Once again, due to poor weather and business conditions there is only one trip to talk about. It was a cold Tuesday morning when I met my old friend Marc Denton, who comes down from Lit more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound