Fishing Reports by Capt. Scott Hughes

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Go for a Slam! Grand slams have been common the past two weeks. If you aren't familar with the inshore slam it consists of catching a tarpon, snook and redfish in the same day. All three species have been available in Charlotte Harbor and Pine I more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Expect the Unexpected. I had a few nice surprises and one shocking let down. The first surprise was the comback of the tarpon fishing this late in Pine Island Sound and Marco Island. We are catching between 3 and 10 tarpon per day in Pine Island S more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Catch of a Lifetime! This past Friday I got a nice 5.3 pound baby girl. It was quite a surprise being that my wife was not due to have our first child until August 11th. She was small but in perfect health and everything is fine with both of them. more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook Feista! Again snook fishing has had to take up the slack of tarpon fishing. High winds coupled with a low number of tarpon this year made tarpon fishing almost impossible for most of my charters this week. That was ok for most because snook more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Tarpon Time! Finally Like I said in my last report, I am going to start fishing for tarpon at night. Tarpon are most night feeders and when the fishing gets tuff I go back to my roots. The nights are more comfortable and hook-ups are more common. more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Fish the wrecks! Wreck fishing has been the keys to most of my good days lately. Offshore wrecks are still holding grouper, jewfish, kings and bonito. Nearshore wrecks are holding snook, trout, cobia, grouper and jewfish. Spanish mackerel are mixe more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Catch a Slam! Spring is one of the best times to catch a grand slam in Southwest Florida. The slam consists of catching a tarpon, snook and redfish in one trip. You can throw in a trout for a true inshore backcountry slam. Even though the tarpon a more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Lot's of big fish! It's spring and that means big fish. We have been catching king mackerel, snook, redfish, grouper and jewfish the past two weeks. The one thing that I haven't been catching is tarpon. I have only caught two tarpon all month. Nor more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook, Reds, Trout and a few Tarpon. Sorry about the lack of reporting for the last month but as most of you know I live down in Everglades National Park for the month of March and April and I don't have internet access. The tarpon moved in as goo more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Jacks and Sharks! This week was spent fishing out of Chokoluskee and Marco Island. The water has warmed into the 70's and live bait has moved into the area and some of the big preditors are already here. Jacks dominated our catches out of both a more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers