Fishing Reports by Capt. Scott Hughes

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook, Tarpon, Trout I know its been almost three weeks since my last report but fishing almost every day is taking it out of me and getting on the computer feels like more work than throwing my 12ft cast net a dozen times. It’s been a strange few more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Tarpon Fever! If you have been wondering what is going on in Southwest Florida, well its tarpon fishing. The last time I reported the tarpon were a little scarce and the bite was slow. Since then the fishing has been consistent and we have sc more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Tarpon or Snook? You'll have to choose. Most of my time for the next month or so will be spent around the Ft Myers to Boca Grande area tarpon fishing. We have also seen a resurgence of large tarpon out of Marco Island since my last report. Als more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Bustin Loose! If you have been reading all the bad reports for the past three weeks, then this report makes up for all of those. The winds calmed down, the temperature rose to the upper 80’s and the fishing turned on like it hasn’t in quite a whi more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - If you didn't get to fish in April, Now is the time! I think the past three weeks have been the windiest that I have seen in a few years. We have had Northeast winds at 15-20 knots since April 17th. East winds don’t tend to affect bait that m more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Fish On! I’m sorry about not getting the fishing reports updated each week but computer time has been limited to checking my e-mail about every three days or so. I have been fishing mostly out of the Marco-10,000 Islands area so I haven’t been aro more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Let's Get Ready to Rumble! Tarpon are here. This report is going to be short and sweet. We are in the middle of the tarpon season and every day has been busy. The weather has warmed considerably since my last update and the major migration of lar more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Good Fishing Between Fronts Its been getting hard to find time to write this report since we are in the full-swing of the spring fishing season. To bad someone didn’t tell the fish. Just when everything was starting to fire up with the warm weathe more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - They're..... Back! This past week started out with winds blowing about 20-25 knots but ended with light breeze and calm seas. It took most of the week for the water to clear up enough for the tarpon to show back up. On Thursday we spotted a few a more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - The Wind Doesn't Blow! It Sucks! I guess that wind gods aren’t going to let us start tarpon season early after all. After a couple of good weeks of chasing tarpon out of Marco Island a cold front slammed the door on us and brought winds up more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers