Fishing Reports by Capt. Scott Hughes

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - El Nino winter Usually we have two months of pretty cool weather during winter. Lows in the upper 40's and highs in the mid 60's are common. This makes our water temps in January and Feburary around 65 degrees. With the water in the 60's th more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Rat Reds and Bull Reds Most of the flats action right revolves around redfish and trout. Trout usually dominate the scene but this winter has produced more reds than trout on just about every trip. I have been using soft plastics for the mo more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook season closes and Trout season's about to open. December 15th marked the closing of snook season. New years day marks the opening of speckled trout season. That's a good thing because the snook are getting harder to find the trout are gett more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Winter Slamin! Flats fishing this fall didn't live up to my standards. But it looks like an El Nino winter is just what the doctor ordered. Fish for redfish is HOT! We have been catching bunches of reds of all sized the past two weeks. I have more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Flats fishing and duck hunting! Now that duck season is open I'm splitting my time between guiding duck hunting trips and sightfishing for reds on the flats. The past couple of duck seasons haven't been good enought to justify taking paying more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Fall fishing Usually fall is the best time of year to break out the artificial lures and catch a fish on every other cast but this fall has been anything but filled with action. We are catching a variety of species and many of them are bett more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Sorry about the lack of reports Sorry about the lack of reports this May-July but if you've fished with me before then you know that i was tarpon fishing and its not if were catching them it's how many were catching. May and June was awsome. We more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Tarpon fishing is excellent Most of the past month has been devoted to tarpon fishing. Its been great to get out the big guns and real drag pulling action. The weather has been really warm the tarpon love it. I've had some outstanding tarpon more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - The baitfish migration is here and the snook are feeding! The temps hit the mid to high 80's this week and the snook went on a feeding frenzy. We mainly used artificial lures even though the schools of sardines moved onto the flats. We caught more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - It's Spring! There's lots of stuff to do. Even though we had a hard freeze the second week of Feburary we are in for a early spring and there is lots of differnt kinds of fishing to do. Redfish have started to move in and schools up in Char more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers