Fishing Reports by Capt. Rick Featherstone

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

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Smoker Kings Arrive Greetings, We are leaving tomorrow morning for Biloxi MS to compete in the SKA Nationals as part of Team Gottim’ ON. Fishing is very good right now. Smoker kingfish are in the area. We caught several yesterday wit more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - The Man In the Grey Suit! Greetings, I just love this time of year when the big decision of the day is what to fish for! The fall pelagic run is in mid migration making it really fun to be on the water. Little boats, big boats and even k more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Lots of Action! Its fly rod time! Greetings, If you want to catch a fish, now is the time. We worked a variety of targets this week and found good success at them all. From Spanish mackerel and bluefish, bull redfish, snook, and a few tarpon nea more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Back In Action! Greetings, Hey fishing friends I have good news. The sky’s are clear, the Gulf is calm and I just had two great days offshore. Even better I have a real CATCHING report! We fished twenty five to thirty five miles out both days more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Sky's are clear! Greetings, Okay four storms came and left, but the skys are clear now! Another hurricane and another miss by hurricane Jeanie this weekend was thankfully just a day to stay indoors here. The wind and rain over the weekend more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Back In Action! Greetings, Well Ivan, thanks for the fire drill, you had our attention for a while! Thankfully there was no affect here from Francis or Ivan. Naples is fully back to normal, Ft. Myers Beach is pretty much cleaned up from Charlie more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Greetings, Well where does one start? Mother Nature has thrown us two major hurricanes in three weeks. This is the bad news. We lost twelve charters, canceled our trip to Bimini. We put many miles behind us for Charlie to the East coast with our more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Fishing Again! Greetings, Well with hurricane Charlie cleanup started, we also started fishing again this week. Thankfully Bonita Springs and Bonita Beach were spared any major damage as was our pick up point Lovers Key untouched. Lots of floati more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Charlie Comes Ashore Greetings, Well fishing fans its been sporty around here! Last week fishing was getting better and better. We caught several huge goliath grouper up to three hundred pounds! Bait was pouring into the area, tarpon had more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers