Fishing Reports by Capt. Rick Featherstone

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Grouper Grab Greetings, This weeks report is about one trip. I was invited to fish the Grouper Grab aboard Chris Thomas’s Holdemhook. It’s a Fountain 34. Its triple engines let us run at sixty miles per hour. What a machine! We fished sixty to n more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Sumertime Fun Greetings, Summer pattern is in full swing in Southwest Florida. We are catching lots of fish every day and almost every day it’s been something new. Versatility is the key and is ready to change it up to keep action in high gear. more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Golaith Wars! Greetings, Summer pattern is in full swing now. After our first tropical system of the season dropped several inches of rain the Gulf is now tanic acid stained on the outgoing tides. In the passes and along the beach snook fishin more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Big Fish Come Home Greetings, To describe fishing lately I would have to just say, “Take your pick”. It’s all good in the Gulf right now. The main show is Tarpon. Lots of big fish are in the area and we are after them almost every d more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - The Arrival! Greetings, Things are really heating up in South West Florida. Water temperatures have risen from a cool sixty-eight to an almost balmy seventy-five in two weeks. We have seen a dramatic change in action as well and it’s going to ge more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Permit Arrive! Greetings, Fishing in Southwest Florida is always interesting especially offshore. We are catching fish every day and almost every day it’s been something new. Versatility is the key and is ready to change it up to keep act more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Winter Patters / Hot Fishing Greetings, Thanks to everyone that read these reports over 2004, I thank you personally. 2004 was one for the record books in many ways. This was the best year on record for Magic Hook. Even with the storms, and the more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Winter Pattern Prouduce Lots of Action Greetings, Our winter pattern is in full swing now. With water temperatures in the mid sixty’s and regular cold fronts passing through our winter fishing is solid. Its this time of year that we focus on num more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Team Gottim'ON goes to the SKA Nationals! SKA Nats 2004 What a trip. Team Gottim’ On, MJ, Mark, Brittany, Liz and I loaded up and left Ft. Myers at 5:30 AM Sunday with the Venture 34 in tow. Fourteen hours later we unloaded in Biloxi MS at the more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - SKA Nationals 2004 What a trip. Team Gottim’ On, MJ, Mark, Brittany, Liz and I loaded up and left Ft. Myers at 5:30 AM Sunday with the Venture 34 in tow. Fourteen hours later we unloaded in Biloxi MS at the Imperial Palace. Next morning we launc more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers