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

July Fishing in the Eveglades National Park - Here in the Everglades National Park, the weather in July is fairly predictable, as are the fishing patterns. Day time air temperatures are now hovering around 92 degrees each day, bringing the water temperatures up to 87 degrees. Storms are beginn more...
Capt. Brandon Acosta - Everglades City

This past week - The fishing this past week in Estero Bay continues to be extremely consistant. There is plenty of bait on the nearshore reefs in the form of threadfin herrings and the snook are willing to take it. Freelined threads on 2/0 circle hooks will work be more...
Capt. Jon Fetter - Estero Bay

Next Fishing Trip will be 27July2011 - SW FL, especially Pine Island, is not the place to be this summer. The mosquitos are simply overwhelming, vicious, and blood sucking. Locals say it is the worst year in recent memory. I cannot personally attest to an abundance of redfish but that more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Great Fishing in Everglades National Park/10,000 Islands - Capt Becky is back in full swing down in Everglades City after being up in Boca Grande for a short nice season, full of great tarpon fishing, time spent with new friends, and a great tournament team I am already missing. I have already started tak more...
Capt. Becky Campbell - Everglades City

Lots of Redfish In Estero Bay - Week Ending 7/02/11 I ran four trips this week. All were good, but one didn't produce much in the way of fish. The week began with Mike Burkee, who is the guy who bought my Talon. He's an awesome guy, and there couldn't have been a better, mo more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

SWFL-Bonita Beach:Goliath-Mania, Red Grouper, Kings, even a Mahi - Monday, 6/20, was a perfect day for offshore fishing, and I spent the day in the good company of Jamie Long, Tom O'Donoghue, Rich Shamer and Matt Booth. We fished about 36 miles west of New Pass in 70 feet, using live shrimp and bait-fish. We made ou more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach

Big Snook - Fishing this past month has been excellent. Snook, redfish, and tarpon have been keeping us busy. There have been some large snook roaming around the Marco and 10,000 Islands this past month. Most of the bait that I have been able to get is large an more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Tarpon fishing report for Fort Myers to Boca Grande - We are in the middle of another excellent tarpon season. The full and new moon tides during May and June produced some fantastic days with bunches of tarpon over 175 pounds. Weather did ruin a number of good tide days but overall it has been a good s more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Summer Fishing Near Fort Myers Beach - Summer is officially here and in full swing. The rains finally started showing up, a bit behind schedule, but we Floridians were glad to see them arrive. Don't worry... most mornings are rain free, so you just need to get an early start before the more...
Capt. Rob Modys - Fort Myers

Break out the plugs - Summertime means high water levels and stained tannin waters. Visibility for sight fishing is limited to a few locales. Great time to break out the search baits, top water plugs and long casts to open flats, creek mouths, and ant type of structure. more...
Capt. Jeff Legutki - Ten Thousand Islands