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

Spring report - Fishing report for SW Florida April 14th., 2011 Finally, it looks as though Spring has arrived. With the warmer water it has brought us some gifts, like large schools of bait. When the bait arrives the big fish do too. I've been seeing some more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

Good action in Naples - I fished today with a new client Hank and his friends Rodney and Mike. This morning was atypical because I had trouble getting bait this morning. After trying for a few minutes I decided to fish what bait we had for an hour or so then try for bait more...
Capt. Tony Fontana - Naples

Tarpon Have Arrived! - Fishing report for the week ending 4/10/2011 Tarpon have arrived, with warm days and mild nights the water temperature has rocketed to 82 very early this spring. Everything is right except the wind needs to lie down for a few days at a time. J more...
Capt. Gary Clark - Fort Myers

Estero Bay and Gulf Waters are "Fishy"! - The operative word is hot! We are experiencing a very early summer pattern and the water temperatures are already up to the low 80's in Estero Bay. The fishing forecast is excellent for this coming week. Continued warm weather with improving tid more...
Capt. Rob Modys - Fort Myers

Slammin with Snook, Redfish and Trout in Southwest Florida - Over the week we targeted snook, trout redfish, Spanish mackerel and sharks around the waters of Pine Island. Despite several days with slow tides we still put together southwest Florida inshore slams that include snook, trout and redfish. Of th more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound

Calling it a day - Friday April 8th, The tide was playing games with us. We had a decent bite the last half hour of outgoing and the incoming seemed to be running a little late. The guys were patient and caught trout here and there along with one cobia. Just a couple f more...
Capt. Cliff Simer - Matlacha

Fishing Ends Up Great After Rough Start Early in the Week - Wow, we had a rough start to last week starting with the winds picking up Monday afternoon only to be followed by a brief, but strong frontal system that flew through here mid day Tuesday bringing some really gusty winds. The waters near Naples ende more...
Capt. Todd Geroy - Naples

After the storm - Tuesday April 5th was a day to remember. I started out the day with a few check marks on the Honey do list and by the my Fiance and I were ready to drop the boat in the water the front was moving in on Matlacha pass. I looked at Sandi and ask if it w more...
Capt. Cliff Simer - Matlacha

Fort Myers to Boca Grande inshore spring fishing report - Spring has arrived and so has the wind. South winds help the flats fishing but hurt tarpon fishing, beach fishing and nearshore fishing. Fishing for redfish is still excellent although they are starting to favor live bait over artificial lures. S more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Boca Grande's April forecast - March has produced some great memories. The Snook fishing continues to be outstanding, the Redfishing is getting better and better, the nearshore fishing is producing big Cobia and Kingfish and the Tarpon are here. I can't wait to see what April has more...
Capt. Danny Latham - Boca Grande