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

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Steady Action The sun and heat continue to bear down on us. Clouds build over the Everglades and the rains come, leaving the atmosphere hot and steamy. We can’t complain. It has been doing that this time of year long before any of us go more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Opportunity Fish Last week I had trouble finding the tarpon in Charlotte Harbor. This week we found them right in the middle of the harbor in the deep drifts. I haven’t done much fishing around for different types of species lately. This mainly be more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/29/2000 by Capt. Butch Rickey A three day weekend and a day lost sitting in the local Dodge dealership made it an abbreviated work week for me. Although it started off slowly, it ended pretty well. Here's h more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - FISHING REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 7/1/2000 by Capt. Butch Rickey This was a fantastic week of great fishing, and catching. It was marred only by one mechanical problem, and news of the worst kind. Monday was reserved for my friend Rusty Holme more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - More Heat If you can’t handle the heat, stick to the morning shift. That’s sound advice. This is the time of year when you hear about people suffering from heat strokes. It’s a good idea to keep lots of fluid in your body no more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Fish Early............or Late? The tarpon are playing hide and seek and they are winning. Last week I ran all over Charlotte Harbor looking for tarpon but couldn’t score on the two days I fished that far north. We have hit the slow season for char more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Sauna Summer It has been a long time since I remember it being much hotter than it has been in the last few weeks. Some of the guys have complained about the wind that we had last week but it really kept things bearable on the water. Slow inco more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Get Scorched!......by Tarpon and the Sun. These are the dog days of summer and the fishing is as hot as the weather. There are a couple of ways to beat the heat and have some of the best fishing of the summer. The first is to fish late or ear more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Whatever Goes It was hot and breezy this past week. Winds were strong out of the west-southwest. That made catching bait along the beaches next to impossible. It didn’t really matter for the bait fisherman because there are finger mulle more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Slow Tides We are in between a new and a full moon. It is called a neep or nip tide. These types of tides are week and move slow. Certain times of the year will produce slower tides. If the tide moved any slower this past week, it would have more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island