Fishing Reports by Capt. Scott Hughes

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

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook and Tarpon hit hard by record cold front We saw record numbers of snook and baby tarpon dead in Pine Island Sound and in the upper areas of the 10,000 Islands. We had low in the upper 20's and high in the low 50's for two days straigh more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Lots of Trout, Kingfish and even Tarpon! I fished four days this past week and the fishing for trout, kingfish and tarpon was out of sight. The fishing for redfish was way off even though the tides were perfect for catching tailing redfish. more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Charlotte Harbor Feast or Famine Fishing Report I fished a couple of days after the cold front and the fishing was really tough. We caught a handfull of trout and a couple of oversized redfish. Since then the fishing has really picked up. The pa more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Tropical Storm puts a damper on the fishing For the past five days we have had very breezy weather and now we have rain and its down right windy. This has pretty much erased some pretty good fishing that we were having. Before the weather ca more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers