Fishing Reports by Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Tarpon, Redfish, and King Mackerel Alert Tarpon are everywhere. The Silver Kings are especially thick in front of The Twins on Ft. Myers Beach. This area is located almost Mid-Island. Big Fish are on the prowl. I'm talkin' Tarpon over 100LBS. more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - The Bite is on! GiddyUp The wind has been less than 10KTS and the fishing has turned on like a sprinkler system. It seems as though everything is on the bite. King Mackerel have been traveling from South to North in 42-44FT of water directly off more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Windy but nights are calm. Fish are everywhere King Macks: I loaded up on Kings on Saturday but paid the price for my success by NOT leaving until the wind came up instead of ANTICIPATING the wind would come up and leaving a little early. I knew b more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Windy, Blown Out, and it stinks for everyone (Except of course for the guys who report great fishing in Hurricanes) It was very disappointing to cancel three (3) trips this week because of the freaking wind. White caps in Estero Bay and white caps more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - The Calm before The Storm All hell is getting ready to break lose down here in SW FL. This is a good thing because I am getting reports of Cobia and Tarpon arriving before April. March is always a windy month. It was windy in SC in March where I f more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Rain, Wind, Cold, and more Wind. Near Shore Report Water temp has retreated from 71 last week to 64 this week. Yesterday (Sunday Feb 29th)Mike Mitchell and his son Mike Mitchell from Denver fished with me on a 6hr trip. They were the best from the more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Hot and Cold Weather means Hot&Cold Fishing As long as 3-6 miles off Naples and Bonita Springs is producing like it is, it makes no sense to go anywhere else. As my Ole' Pappy use to say,If he ain't broke, don't try and fix it Peckerwood! God I h more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Cool Temps means Hot Fishing Action (Naples to Sanibel) 2004 is getting started with some serious GiddyUp. I've had 3 Charters in the last 6 days and everyone went home with fish for the Barbi. Big Redfish: Schools of nomadic Reds have been prowl more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - If you want to catch fish and lots of them, this is going to be a great week. The New Moon (12/23) will provide some killer tide flows. The best tides will be the Ebb or outgoing. Fish will be stacked up along deeper channels adjacent to flats. Tues more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers