Fishing Reports by Capt. Scott Hughes

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Cold winter makes fishing tough but excellent duck hunting. This year we are experiencing the coldest winter I have seen since I have been guiding. We haven't had a day over 79 degrees in 15 days. Usually the weather isn't this cold until mid more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Grand Slam! Fall in the 10,000 Islands is probably the easiest place to get a grand slam which consists of catching a tarpon, snook, and redfish in one trip. You can add the trout if you want,for he ultimate grand slam. For most of last month and more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Right on Cue! As expected the fishing exploded this month. It is a little known fact that October is probably the best fishing month in the 10,000 Islands. We have been having a blast catching good numbers of tarpon, snook, redfish, king mackerel, more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Feeding Frenzy! Tarpon, Sharks, Jacks and more! For those of you who follow my reports, I have been predicting an explosion of fish activity this fall. To put it bluntly, it's here. We are experiencing some of the best tarpon fishing of the year a more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook and Jack's Attack! We managed to get in a few trips in between the hurracanes Isadore and Lilly this week. When the seas finally subsided, the bait was easy but most of the week 4-6 ft swells kept most of us hiding deep into the backcountry more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Backcountry Light Tackle Action! The winds of hurracane Isadore forced anglers to focus their fishing efforts in the protection of the everglades backcountry. The fishing was generally good with catches of snook, redfish, snapper, grouper, more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Get Ready! Now is the time to get prepared for the fall fishing explosion. Fall is my favorite time of year to fish because the weather is good almost all the time and you can catch everything that swims. Snook, redfish, tarpon, trout, tripletail, more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Get prepared! Now is the time to get prepared for the fall fishing explosion. Fall is my favorite time of year to fish because the weather is good almost all the time and you can catch everything that swims. Snook, redfish, tarpon, trout, tripleta more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook and Snapper fishing is hot The most consistent catches over the past two weeks have been snook and snapper. I spent four days fishing out of the 10,000 Islands and five days fishing in Charlotte Harbor since my last report. The winds have ma more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Excellent Fishing Continues ! The past two weeks produced good catches almost every day. The only days that we didn't catch much were the days that I didn't fish. Tarpon fishing is getting hot in the Pine Island area and snook and mangrove snapper more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers