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

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/24/2001 by Capt. Butch Rickey I took Monday of this week off to recover from the Sebring 12 Hour race, but had the rest of the week booked. But the weather reared it's ugly head again and gave us gusts to 32 MP more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Greetings; Hey there Mr. Weather Man, THANK YOU. Spring weather and rising water temperatures have combined with some calm seas to make fishing pretty good lately. On the offshore front the snapper fishing is top notch. King mackerel are abundant, more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Fair Weather Fishing This past week was as good as one could hope for. The mornings started out calm and warm. Those are perfect ingredients for fishing. The water has cleared a bit and the bait has returned. Everyone that I talked to caught fish more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound, Florida - Welcome to Capt. Terry's FISHING REPORT: April 9th, 2000 Redfish the last couple of weeks has been good. Try the usual spots the holes on the flats, against the mangroves and look for those tails on the flats. I've been catching alot of them at more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Let's Get Ready to Rumble! Tarpon are here. This report is going to be short and sweet. We are in the middle of the tarpon season and every day has been busy. The weather has warmed considerably since my last update and the major migration of lar more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - The Wind Blows This past week was basically a repeat of the week before. The wind has been giving most of us the fits. Most of us are catching fish but they are not coming easy. There are days when we can scrounge up enough live bait to really cat more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Fishing Heats Up When Seas Are Down Greetings; Well fishing fans let me say this spring sure has been interesting out in the gulf. The good news is we caught our first tarpon of the year, we are catching some great permit, king mackerel, more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Good Fishing Between Fronts Its been getting hard to find time to write this report since we are in the full-swing of the spring fishing season. To bad someone didn’t tell the fish. Just when everything was starting to fire up with the warm weathe more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Mellow Out There was a significant drop in the water temperature in this past week. That made fishing difficult. Bait was darn near impossible to find unless you had a secret spot where they will hide from the elements. As the week progressed, the more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2/17/2001 by Capt. Butch Rickey Well, we’ve gone from and extended period of extreme low temperatures to an extended period of extreme high temperatures. We’ve been well above average for a couple of weeks, now, more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound