Fishing Reports by Capt. Scott Hughes

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Fall Migration The fall bait migration is underway in Southwest Florida and the preditors are not far behind. I have been spitting my time between the upper 10,000 Islands and Pine Island Sound. Charlotte Harbor is still very fresh from the r more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Red Drum & Black Drum! After almost five weeks of bad weather and very little guide business things are starting to change. The weather gave us a break this week and the bookings followed shortly after. I'm far from busy but at least I have more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - BC & AD Report This first part of this report is BC or before Charley. The second half of the report will be AD or after destruction. Before Hurricane Charley slammed into our coast we were have a pretty average summer of fishing. Tarpon were p more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Dog Days of Summer We are definitely in the middle of summer in Southwest Florida. Water temps are hovering around 90 degrees and and we are in a drought. The fishing has been ok for the most part. Tarpon fishing is good most days. The fish will f more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook and Tarpon The month of June is knowm for these two species and there were no surprises this year. The tarpon fish was just fantastic. Most of the action was near the passes during the strong moon phases but we had some good days fishing more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Summer Redfish The redfishing so far this summer has been excellent. Even with all the boat traffic associated with a number of tournaments there are still large schools of reds roaming Pine Island Sound and Charlotte Harbor. Tarpon are schoo more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - The tarpon are back this year! Due to a busy schedule and little problem with a computer virus/worm it's been a while since my last report. For the last month ie mostly been fishing Pine Island Sound and Charlotte Harbor. Everynow and then I've be more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Poons, Permit and Wind. Since my last fishing report we have had some of the best fishing of the year. We had to move around alot to accomodate for the high winds by jumping alot from Pine island to Marco. I prefer to fish the Pine Island are more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Tarpon and Permit! Tarpon and permit were the stars of the show last week before the winds and cold moved in on us. Warm spring like weather and light winds combined to produce the best catches of the year so far off Marco Island. Since then howev more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Reds, Trout, Sharks! The reds ,trout and sharks went off in Pine Island Sound this past week. We caught alomost record numbers of trout and reds on all but one day since my last report. Snook were mixed in as well but the bite has been a littl more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers