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

A Trip With An Old Friend - Report For The Week Ending 7/30/11 After doing several private teaching seminars during July, I finally ran a trip during the last week. It was on Friday, and was with a long-time friend/customer Mike McMahon. We go back to 1999. Mike wasn't t more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Summer Is Winding Down - Fishing report for the week ending 8/8/2011 Summer is winding down and we can look back at what was a great season, especially after last year. This was one of the strangest Tarpon seasons in recent memory. With a low preasure system skirting t more...
Capt. Gary Clark - Fort Myers

Groupers for dinner - I did a shakedown cruise with my wife and daughter yesterday on the new boat and the fishing was as good as it gets.Our first drop of the day we caught 4 keeper red groupers for dinner and we released about another 40 fish betweem 14 and 22.My wife more...
Capt. Michael Avinon - Naples

Fishing Through the Dog Days of Summer - I've been especially busy for this time of year and am looking ahead to quite a few trips on the calendar for the next few weeks. While I would like to do nothing but brag about the fishing, I would not be giving an honest report if I didn't say more...
Capt. Todd Geroy - Naples

August Fishing Forecast for Boca Grande - The fishing in Southwest Florida is going pretty good. I've started to slow down a little from this years tarpon season but I'm still fishing 4-5 days a week and enjoying a great summer. Tarpon are still here, the reds are feeding under the trees and more...
Capt. Danny Latham - Boca Grande

I've got nothing (A la Two and Half Men) - Before the start of my final season as a professional guide, I'm being checked out from bow to stern. And when I say stern, I really mean My Stern. A freakin' camera climbed up in there 127 feet and found nothing but discarded brain cells. Ski more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Estero Bay Fishing - Now is the time to get out early, avoid the afternoon heat, and get in on some good action. There is bait on the grass flats in the form of whitebait and pinfish. You might have to chum a bit to get them around, but it should only take a few throws more...
Capt. Jon Fetter - Estero Bay

Amberjacks and Red Groupers - Well the amberjacks are back on the menu after a two month closure and there should be plenty around with so little pressure.The red grouper fishing continues to be as good as we have seen it in a long time with limits coming quickly on both half day more...
Capt. Michael Avinon - Naples

SW FL-Bonita Beach: Offshore Report - Monday, 7/4, Tony Herring, son Jacob, friend, Josh Schneider, and Tony's two nephews celebrated the Fourth of July with a fishing trip offshore. We fished in 60 feet, using live shrimp and cut-bait. We caught a 13-inch keeper mangrove snapper at our more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach

Giant Snook, Redfish Report w/ Hoke Fishing Charters - Capt. Dave Hoke [email protected] 239-425-7452 www.hokefishingcharters.com July has been hot (as expected) but the fishing has been even hotter and I look for that to continue through August and into the fall. As you may have picked up b more...
Capt. Dave Hoke - Fort Myers