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

Fantastic Redfishing! - Week Ending 5-5-12........... Fantastic Redfishing! This workweek began on Thursday with my first trip with Mike Antinori, of Natick, Mass. It was a day full of challenges, and fun, and a persistent blacktip shark. It was already blowing that m more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Estero Bay - The word for last week was tarpon. They have really started to move in closer and are feeding on both bottom baits and free lined live baits. Catfish tails seem to work best on 7/0 circle hooks while anchored. Drifting free lined threads on 7/0 cir more...
Capt. Jon Fetter - Estero Bay

Cold Fronts and Juggled Schedules! - Week ending 4/28/12.......... It was yet another week of four trips booked, juggled schedules, and only two trip run, thanks again to the weather. I was to fish with Phil Cox, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, on Monday, but frontal weather and winds forc more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Windy, Dreary Weather Doesn't Stop the Snook Action in Naples! - We have now had 12 consecutive days of unusual westerly winds here in SW Florida. Rough seas have put a damper on our chances to fish for tarpon on the outside where we normally fish this time of year. While that has been a huge disappointment more...
Capt. Todd Geroy - Naples

Red Snapper Season - We fished a 12 hour trip on Saturday,our first red snapper trip of the year and after a 60 mile run to 160' of water we started fishing.On our second stop of the day we quickly landed a limit of red snappers and released a 25pd gag.After putting awa more...
Capt. Michael Avinon - Naples

Marco Island Fishing for Redfish, Mackerel and More - May was a mixed bag of weather and conditions that made fishing the 10,000 Islands fun and productive. Fishing live shrimp on the bottom in the backwater produced a nice mix of Reds and Trout with a few large Snook for good measure. Gulp Shrimp w more...
Capt. Lisa Williams - Marco Island

Winds messing up Gulf fishing but helping the back bays - The persistent west winds have made Gulf fishing an on again, off again event that has also dampened the tarpon bite. But it's made for fantastic redfish, snook and trout fishing in the backcountry of Estero Bay. The redfish bite in Estero Bay h more...
Capt. Rob Modys - Fort Myers

Prime time tarpon action in Boca Grande. - 2012-6-5 Captain Van Hubbard's fishing report. Around Venice, our snook bite is hot but Boca Grande tarpon can be challenging. We have tarpon all around Boca Grande and north thru Venice for our Prime time June season but unusually strong west wind more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Tarpon Season Is In Full Swing - Tarpon season is in full swing and mother nature is keeping it very interesting to say the least. With a tropical storm crossing the top of the state last week we have had 8 strait days of west winds with some of the days taking fishing on the beache more...
Capt. Gary Clark - Sanibel

Snook Fishing Naples - The snook fishing has been on fire here in the Naples area. Live pilchards and threads are the baits of choice. I prefer free lining this guys as well as floating them under a cork. Focus on the first part of the incoming and the first part of the more...
Capt. Joey Benko - Naples