Fishing Reports by Capt. Scott Hughes

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Gator Trout Action! Winter trout fishing is usually the best trout fishing of the year and this winter is no different. We usually put up good numbers of trout most of the year but the quality of fish the last few weeks has been better than ad more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Cold Fronts run fish into the backcountry. We have begun to see frequent cold fronts push into our area. The fishing has been very good inbetween the fronts but if you try to go against Mother Nature your probably going to be dissapointed. As more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Flats Slam! A little bit of warmer temperatures and calmer winds really turned up the action on the flats this week. We saw a resurgence of snook this week on the flats. I fished Exude plastic jerk baits on a 1/8 oz jigheads with excellent re more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - October Redfishing! It is the season for for redfishing in Southwest Florida. There are to ways to target reds right now. YOu can fish schools of breeder reds from 10-20 pounds or you can sight fish singles that range from 4-8 pounds. more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Mackerel Migration Usually this time of year I am still targeting tarpon but this year the late season tarpon have been a little slow so I have been taking advantage of the large schools of spanish mackerel that are feeding outside of the pass more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Yes, there's tarpon! The tarpon have moved back into the area after disappearing while hurricane Dennis passed through. For a more detailed report check the previous report from yesterday. Good Luck! Capt. Scott Hughes Blackwater Charters more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Good fishing resumes after close call with Dennis We dodged a bullet with hurricane Dennis and the good fishing picked up right where it left off with the exception of tarpon. They probably aren't very far away and tommorrow I'll go out and st more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - It's been a fantastic tarpon season! The hot spot the entire month of June was Boca Grande Pass. If the tarpon wern't in the pass itself then they wern't far away. Most days consisted of jigs the pass in the morning and running the beaches and o more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Break Out The Big Guns! First of all, I'm sorry for not keeping up with my reports this season. I've been running double trips lately and by the time I get the boat cleaned up it's well after 10 PM. This time of year most of my time is more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Grand Slam Time! It took a while this year but the tarpon are finally here in fishable numbers thoughout our region. I have been finding good numbers of tarpon from Everglades City to Boca Grande. We had success with cut bait, live herring and sof more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers