Regional Fishing Reports for:
Southwest Florida (Cape Sable to Boca Grande)

Tarpon and Snook Spring Action - Folks it's that time of year to getup,sign up, gear up for the early hot snook and tarpon action. We had double digit snook action the past few weeks and tarpon are starting to show up in numbers. Fish 75- 110lbs are typical. The weather looks good f more...
Capt. Ron Kowalyk - Sanibel

Good bite. Seatrout, redfish, jacks and sharks in Estero Bay - Weather has been the key player in fishing over the past several weeks and will continue to be so for another week. It seems that Mother Nature doesn't want to let go of the continuing cold fronts that keep heading our way. Spring is in the air and more...
Capt. Rob Modys - Fort Myers

Fort Myers Fishing Report 4-16-14 - Fishing this week in Fort Myers has been steady despite the bait being scarce. The good news is that the fish have been eating shrimp on circle hooks on recent trips. With the big full blood moon we had this week the tides have been very strong inc more...
Capt. Mark Yimin - Fort Myers

The Fronts Just Keep On Coming! - Week ending 3/22/14.......... The cold fronts and bad weather just keep on coming. I was to fish with a great young man named Rob Bingemen, of Great Falls, Montana, on Monday, but the weather gods had other ideas. We had heavy rains, high winds, more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

SNOOK,SNOOK and more SNOOK - The winds were blowing us all around We were Snookin in Pine Island Sound The big girls were screaming our reels If you have been there you know how it feels When a 33,two 34 and a 35 SNOOK hits the lure Whatever ails you, believe m more...
Capt. George Grosselfinger - Pine Island Sound

50-lb King, 8 1/2-foot Hammerhead, Grouper & More! - Monday morning, 3/31, it was a hard call on whether to fish offshore or inshore for the Frantz family--Mike and Sue, daughter Kim, and grandson Kevin. After many days of wind and high seas, predictions were for calmer conditions, with two-to three fo more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach

Permit have arrived.. First Tarpon spotted, Cobia bight good.. - Great wreck trip last week, Permit all over, bighting on shrimp and crabs. Also very large Whitebone Porgies and a nice keeper Cobia. Another Jumbo Permit caught yesterday on local reef. We saw our first pod of Tarpon rolling through the area moving more...
Capt. Brett Swenson - Fort Myers

Despite Wind Fort Myers - Fort Myers Beach Fishing Good - The latest series of fronts that pushed through Fort Myers - Fort Myers Beach the first part of the week (April 7th,8th,9th) brought strong winds first from the Southwest and then from the Northwest. Estero Bay and the backcountry waters south to Nap more...
Capt. Eric Anderson - Fort Myers

Little Kracks Can Sink Yaks! - Week ending 3/1/14.......... I got out on Thursday of this week for a trip with Joe Haskett and his son Joey, of Hertford, North Carolina. We all watched the weather with great interest, as the forecast was very iffy after the passing of yet anot more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

SNOOKIN!!! - The winds finally abated The northerly I really hated But we found some old girls to bite And stretched our lines oh so tight A 31 and 34 and also a 35 drove us crazy We returned home and just felt so lazy Artificial Lures.. keep more...
Capt. George Grosselfinger - Pine Island Sound