Fishing Reports by Capt. Scott Hughes

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Catch a Slam! Spring is one of the best times to catch a grand slam in Southwest Florida. The slam consists of catching a tarpon, snook and redfish in one trip. You can throw in a trout for a true inshore backcountry slam. Even though the tarpon a more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Lot's of big fish! It's spring and that means big fish. We have been catching king mackerel, snook, redfish, grouper and jewfish the past two weeks. The one thing that I haven't been catching is tarpon. I have only caught two tarpon all month. Nor more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook, Reds, Trout and a few Tarpon. Sorry about the lack of reporting for the last month but as most of you know I live down in Everglades National Park for the month of March and April and I don't have internet access. The tarpon moved in as goo more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Jacks and Sharks! This week was spent fishing out of Chokoluskee and Marco Island. The water has warmed into the 70's and live bait has moved into the area and some of the big preditors are already here. Jacks dominated our catches out of both a more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - With spring comes Wind! The good news is that spring like conditions are becoming more prevelent which means tarpon, snook and sharks are on the move. The bad news is that early spring is usually windy. This year seems to be just that. I fishe more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Trout Anyone? Most of my fishing this week was split between Pine Island Sound and Marco Island. Fishing was good in both areas but trout fishing in Pine Island Sound is about as good as it gets. Half-day trips have been boating 60-70 and full-day more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Cold water but fishing is still good! 56 degree water temperatures have made fishing tough the past few weeks but overall the fishing is still very good. Don't expect to catch warm water species like snook and tarpon. But, if your not a snob about more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Beat of a Different Drum! If you want to catch some drum, come to the 10,000 Islands. We have been invaded with juvenile black and red drum. Some days we catch more reds and some days more blacks. Snook have also been consistent along with sheephe more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Trout and Tunny! Trout and litle tunny made the head lines for us this week. The trout have been a staple for the past month but the tunny were a nice surprise. Usually they are offshore a good bit but this week they have been schooling in 14ft of more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Multi-species fishing is at it's best If you want to catch just about everything in the sea then this is the time of year to fish. The size isn't what it is in the spring or fall but you can't argue with numbers like we have been getting the past more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers