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

An Early Taste of Spring Brings Great Fishing - Enough with writing reports about fishing winter species in cold water! The last week has evolved into a more spring-like pattern as the water in the back bays warmed up from 65° a week ago to 80° this weekend. With the transition, I am now finding more...
Capt. Todd Geroy - Naples

Fish are Happy with the Warm Temperatures! - The fish are happy with the warm temps and so are the anglers. Since the water is warming it's pushing the fish out in the middle parts of Estero Bay. Look for trout on the incoming tide on the grass flats in 2-4ft of water using a cork with li more...
Capt. Scott Theis - Fort Myers

Estero bay report - Things appear to be looking up with regards to the weather and the fishing isn't far behind. As the water temps start to increase the fish will be hungry and ready to feed. Start looking for redfish up around the mangrove edges and oyster bars on h more...
Capt. Jon Fetter - Estero Bay

Estero Bay -Pine island Good Fly and Artie Action - Backbay: The back waters were still a tad challenging with sluggish tide, afternoon weather and wind a problem. Steady Eddy Crews hung in there and came up with upper slot reds, fat limits of trout and numbers of release snook. The bite really picked more...
Capt. Ron Kowalyk - Fort Myers

Fun With Old Friends, And HOW! - Week ending 1/18/14........ After being down with a bug for about two weeks, I did get back on the water for three days of fishing in this week. The week began on Monday with my good friend Frank Faust, of Council Bluffs, Iowa. He wanted me to more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

SW FL-Bonita Beach: Grouper & Hogs, Sheepshead & drum - Monday, 1/20/14, was the first day in about two weeks that was suitable for offshore fishing. Successive, relentless weather fronts had forced me off the water for about a week, then into the backwaters for the next week or so. Another front, predict more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach

Pine Island Sound Backwater Fishing - The snook and redfish bite continues to be on particularly the past couple of weeks after our last series of stronger cold fronts. Work these areas slow until you find the deeper holes. We've been throwing shrimp patterns and paddletails rigged on a more...
Jennifer Wolter - Naples

Warm weather, warm water means great fishing - It was a very fishy week in Estero Bay and it was nice to get back in shorts, t-shirts and flip flops again and look for fish without having to worry about the next cold front. The daytime air temperatures are back in the 80's and the water temps ha more...
Capt. Rob Modys - Fort Myers

Fort Myers Estero Bay Trout Bite Heats Up As The Water Warms - After several days of rainy weather in the Fort Myers and Naples area, it was nice to get out on Estero Bay with some decent weather. The first thing I always do is check the surface temperatures, at this time of the year water temperatures are criti more...
Capt. Eric Anderson - Fort Myers

Naples Mixed Bag Winter Fishing 1/29/14 - This week fishing was pretty consistent overall for a bit of everything. Anglers caught snook, redfish, trout, mackerel, bluefish, jewfish and jacks. I fished shrimp and jigs early and have fished live pilchards the last few days despite water temps more...
Capt. Chris McCubbin - Naples