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

Never Caught A Snook Quite Like This Before! - Went on an extreme kayak fishing trip in a creek deep in the Glades backcountry. We fished the first half of the outgoing tide site fishing to snook laid up on the sandbars on the edges of the creek and along the mangrove shorelines. The snook were a more...
Jennifer Wolter - Naples

One Great Trip In A Week Of Blow Outs! - Week Ending 2/16/13...... This week was pretty full, and supposed to be a busy one. But, as is so often the case the in the fishing business, Mother Nature had other ideas. My first trip was on Tuesday, with my friend Tom Olson, and avid angler more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Naples Winter Mix - Weeks of outstanding Wintertime fishing both on the inshore and offshore fishing grounds of Southwest Florida yielded recently to a short bout of redtide and some of the coldest temperatures of the year. Fortunately CyberAnglers, the environmental an more...
Capt. Will Geraghty - Naples

SW FL-Bonita Beach: If only the winds would stop... - Monday, 2/4, I headed offshore with Barry Pflueger and friends. I hadn't been offshore in nearly a week, due to rough conditions out there. Seas were still fairly choppy early on, but they calmed down by mid-morning. Fishing was kind of slow although more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach

Trout, Redfish, Pompano Good Fishing Despite Cold and Rain - Cooler weather has put the bite back in fishing here in the 10,000 Islands. Larger Trout have begun to move into the bays and grass flats. The method of targeting them is as varied as the places they have shown up, but a tipped jig either worked s more...
Capt. Lisa Williams - Marco Island

Cold snapp will slow the bite, but a quick warmup is forecast - A shift in the weather to much cooler temperatures will be temporary with a gradual warming starting in the middle of the week. This will affect the fishing. Winds will be the biggest problem along with water that is stirred up. Start in your favo more...
Capt. Rob Modys - Fort Myers

Weather Changes have the fish confused - Well, it has been an interesting month to fish. Very warm temps have had the fish a bit confused and unsure were they want to be or what they want to eat. We are also fighting this damned Red Tide. You would think with all the money we have for re more...
Capt. Roan zumFelde - Naples

This week in Estero Bay - The fishing in and around Estero Bay remained very good this past week. The seatrout bite over the grass flats continues to be really good. Shrimp under a popping cork was the go-to method. Anglers should locate 2.5 – 4 feet of clean water, near the more...
Capt. Jon Fetter - Estero Bay

Red Tide Brings New Challenge to Backwaters of Naples/ Marco - I'm sorry to report that the great fishing we enjoyed early last week took a little turn as red tide made its way into the inland waters of Naples and Marco Island late last week. This concentrated algae bloom is responsible for fish kills and low o more...
Capt. Todd Geroy - Naples

Hot Topwater Trout & Red Bite! - We've been having consistent topwater action lately on quality reds and trout working the edges of the potholes and grass flats. Skitterwalks and Top Dogs worked with a varied retrieve particularly slowing it down and pausing more triggers the reacti more...
Jennifer Wolter - Naples