Tarpon, Redfish and Snook action from Boca to Ft Myers

Capt. Scott Hughes
April 14, 2008
Fort Myers - Saltwater Fishing Report

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.

Tarpon: We jumped 49 and leadered 22 tarpon last week mostly fishing in northern Pine Island Sound and Charlotte Harbor. All but two of the tarpon were over 100 pounds and a handful were over 180. Freelined threadfin herring caught the most but cut bait and some artificials got a few as well. I don't expect to have very good tarpon fishing until late in the week if even then with temperatures dropping like they are.

Snook: I only flats fished one day last week and that was because my customers had already tarpon fished the day before. Being that it was a weekend and the flats were very crowded we didn't make alot of moved and managed to catch probably 20-25 sublegal snook and a half dozen upper slot redfish. All the fish were caught on freelined scaled sardines.

Redfish: I didn't target any redfish last week other than those that we caught while snook fishing. Two weeks ago we hammered the bull reds and with this cold comming I'm going to try them again this week. I have heard from a few guys that i work with that there are alot of oversized redfish still around.

Kingfish: There are still kingfish around. We caught a 20 pounder while tarpon fishing yesterday and got cut off by a few others.

Good Luck!

Capt. Scott Hughes
Blackwater Charters
941-575-2389 home
941-628-4247 cell

www.blackwatercharters.com

Target Species:

Tarpon, Snook, Redfish

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