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

Ft. Myers Beach and Estero Bay Fishing Report! - Estero Bay is producing some great fishing. The key is to fish the higher stages of the tides and make sure the water is moving. There's redfish,snook and jacks prowling the shorelines due to all the small bait around. The rigs we use is more...
Capt. Scott Theis - Fort Myers

June Brings Flounder, Trout, Sheephead, and Sharks out to Play - June in Southwest Florida means the start of the summer fishing season. Afternoon storms are frequent and sometimes severe, so morning is the preferred time to fish. It is generally a little cooler and you can beat the heat as well as the thunders more...
Capt. Lisa Williams - Marco Island

Everglades days/Biscayne nights, 25 June 2013 - We're settling into the usual summertime routine, alternating between fishing the 'Glades during the daytime and night trips in the urban areas of Biscayne Bay. As noted in my last report the fishing along the coast of the 'Glades will just keep get more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Everglades City

Patience Pays Off On A Poor Tide - Week ending 5/17/13...... It was a week of very poor tides, and I did one trip on Monday, which was the best of the lot, but still poor. My friend Jonathan Tipples emailed me and told me that he had been telling his lovely wife Jane how much fu more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Estero Bay Report - Well Tropical Storm Andrea really put a hold on the fishing this past week in and around Estero Bay. Prior to her arrival the fishing was starting to heat up with good variety and size. The snook bite was favorable under floating docks and along ma more...
Capt. Jon Fetter - Estero Bay

Father's Day Fun Fly Fishin Naples Beach - Took out a father and daughter fly fishing duo on Sunday. Despite the water being stirred up, they managed to catch a few snook between the both of them. In swelly/turbid conditions like we faced, it's best to use flies with a lot of presence and f more...
Jennifer Wolter - Naples

SW FL-Bonita Beach: Red Grouper, Snapper, Cobia, Shark, Redfish, - I fished Saturday, 6/1, and I headed offshore about 36 miles west of New Pass to fish in 71 feet with Craig Daniels, Chip Lehman, and friends Bubba and Paul. We had a great day of fishing in good conditions. We used shrimp and squid to catch most eve more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach

The Best Snook Fishing of the Year is Right Now in Naples - Wow! Fishing really turned on last week as the waters cleared from the stormy conditions we experienced the previous week. The snook fishing has been especially strong with some of the largest fish of the year being caught and released. We also more...
Capt. Todd Geroy - Naples

Fridays Are As Busy As The Weekends These Days! - Week Ending 4/27/13.......... Had a trip with an old friend, Ed Mahoney, this week that I hadn't seen in ten years. Me, Ed, and a couple of his friends had some serious redfish trips back in the day. One day the reds were splitting our popping c more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Rebounding After Tropical Storm Andrea - Andrea creeped across the gulf and across Florida last week making soggy conditions on the water and forcing cancellations for most of the week. Since the weekend, the fishing has gotten back to normal with large snook being the main event. Sno more...
Capt. Todd Geroy - Naples