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

Permit caught while fishing on the flats - Summer fishing can be great...and it is, with nice catches of Redfish, Trout, Snook, Permit, Mackerel, Bluefish, Tarpon... The weather is nice also with temps in the low 80s. The afternoon rain hasn't started yet, but are sure to come. Bait more...
Capt. Becky Campbell - Everglades City

Finally, typical Fl. weather - April has finally arrived, and the winter clothes are stashed away until next year. Calmer days, clean water, and hungry fish. Tarpon is the name of the game this time of year! This year has had some great days already with lots of happy fish. It more...
Capt. Jeff Legutki - Ten Thousand Islands

grouper fishing - The fishing has been like the weather lately,when its good ,its really good.We have been catching groupers on the full days with ajs mangs and kings mixed in depending on where we fish.Yesterday we had 8 gags and 4 reds.Today we had a limit of gags[1 more...
Capt. Michael Avinon - Naples

Water Temperatures Bite - My report comes via Oxford, Maryland. It is written from observations by 2 Captains I trust without reservation. Capt Norm Meshaw and Capt David Dean. Capt Norm reported a total bust on tarpon fishing. He said the number of boats of Picnic Island more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Gulf Fishing for Grouper, Snapper and Cobia Excellent - Fishing in both Estero Bay and on the Gulf of Mexico has been top notch this past week and should continue with warming water temperatures and a normal weather pattern. Tarpon season is getting closer with silver kings being spotted daily and ther more...
Capt. Rob Modys - Fort Myers

Snook are here again but it doesn't feel right - Snook of all sizes are still where they should often be but I have to agree with Capt. John Bunch about the pressure on them. With two months remaining before I return to guiding for trophy striped bass at Orient Point, NY, I will curtail my snoo more...
Capt. George Grosselfinger - Pine Island Sound

Spring Tarpon are Jumping - Well,it's nice to finally have some stability in the weather because of the Tarpon in our area. It's necessary to have full sun with little wind to really have a great chance to jump those 100 plus pounders. Charlie and David had probably 50 shots more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee

Two Out Of Five! Good Days! - I had a full week this week, but it was reduced to two trips on Monday and Friday by three very windy days. I was able to reschedule those days for later this month and next month. My friend of many years and fishing trips, Dr. John Hitt, was up more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

High Preasure Dominates - Fishing report for the week ending 4/18/2010 Wind and more wind was the theme for the majority of this week, with high pressure in control keeping our winds easterly and at times gusting into the thirties. Fishing has been good and getting bett more...
Capt. Gary Clark - Pine Island Sound

Despite the Wind Fish are Hungry around Pine Island - For the better part of the week strong east winds dominated the weather around Pine Island. We still fished every day with the exception of one very rainy day and to my surprise the bite was actually better than what I would have thought. Spanis more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound