Fishing Reports by Capt. Scott Hughes

Fort Myers, Sarasota and Marco Island fishing report - I've been splitting my fishing time between Sarasota Bay, Charlotte Harbor and the 10,000 Island south of Marco Island. Each of these three areas have had a slightly different kinds of fishing. Sarasota fishing is mostly artificial lure fishing f more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Ft Myers to Sarasota Fishing Report - Most of my fishing the past month or two has focused on flats fishing in Pine Island Sound and Charlotte Harbor. The fishing has been a bit different than last year. The water is much cooler and I've had to rely on a deep water pattern much earlier t more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Tarpon fishing report - It's still tarpon seson in Southwest Florida. We did have a 10 day period of slow fishing the first week of August I believe due to hot surface water but since then the fishing has been some of the best of the year. The fish are harder to find this t more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Charlotte Harbor and Boca Grande tarpon report - This report will give an overwiew of the past three months since i was to busy to write reports lately. May: The tarpon fishing was excellent when the wind didn't blow. Despite the fact that we had some of the worst winds that i can remember, May more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Boca Grande to Ft Myers tarpon fishing - The past three weeks have been mostly spent hunting tarpon. It has been an excellent season so far. We have not had a day yet this month that we have not put at least two tarpon in the air. I am running two trips a day most of the time and we're more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Tarpon, Redfish and Snook action from Boca to Ft Myers - The fishing was excellent every day last week. This week may take a little more work since we have another cold front moving in on us today. I spent most of the week tarpon fishing and ended it by winging it for snook and redfish on the flats. more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Charlotte Harbor Redfish and Kingfish - The majority of the last two weeks was spent running Charlotte Harbor and just off the beaches from Redfish Pass to Boca Grande. We have been looking for tarpon and kingfish for the most part. We have been hitting the kingfish with pretty good s more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Redfish bite is hot despite high winds in Charlotte Harbor - Despite high winds for the past two weeks the redfish bite has been excellent with catches of redfish up to 16lbs daily. High east and NE winds push water out of the bays and rivers and the low tides are making finding large schools of redfish ea more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Redfish and Trout We're about a month away from what we call spring fishing here is Southwest Florida. Until then the majority of the inshore fising is for redfish and trout. Ninety percent of the time I only use artificial lures this time more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Ft Myers, Pine island and Marco Fishing Report The fishing has been hit and miss with the cold fronts that have been comming though each week. We have been having to hide from the cold winds and look for the deeper runs in the flats to find the more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers