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

Groupers are Now Closed - The last two weeks I have not left a report because we have been fishing everyday.To say that the grouper fishing was good is an understatement.On every trip we had at least 8 groupers with amberjacks included and a limit on both most days.But now we more...
Capt. Michael Avinon - Naples

Winter Fishing Good Inspite Of Cold Spell - Fishing the aftermath of the worst cold spell in my 34 years here has not been as bad as I expected. It will take some time to determine how bad the snook kill really was. I have been seeing pods of snook and there are lots of them under the lights h more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Coming back strong! - There is so much hype about the fish kill it is driving me crazy. All I hear is doom and gloom from so many. The truth of the matter is that the fish are here, they are just vacationing in new areas. Since the freeze, the red fish have taking cent more...
Capt. Jeff Legutki - Ten Thousand Islands

Boca Grande Update - Boca Grande, Fl. Report 1/31/10 Fishing was tougher this week. Anglers fishing with me did fairly well in spite of the adverse conditions. We caught mostly seatrout and a few redfish. Jim Leiner of New York caught several small redfish and a more...
Capt. Pete Greenan - Boca Grande

Winter and Early Spring Fishing - On my most recent trip redfish where not schooled up but where scattered throughout the pot holes and grass flats, mostly singles. We managed to catch a few, long distance casting to pot holes, rounded out the day trout fishing. The trout fishing was more...
Capt. Andy Boyette - Boca Grande

Getting back to normal - Fishing report for the week ending 1/31/2010 Its nice for a change to talk about some possitive fishing and weather, with the last front comming in on Saturday being much weaker than ones in the past a weeks. With temperatures in the 70s this week a more...
Capt. Gary Clark - Pine Island Sound

Waters are Coming Back to Life in Southwest Florida - I wouldn't say we had a great week of fishing but it was good and getting better each day. Our water temperatures are slowly rising and it's getting easier to pattern fish again. The waters are coming to life with the warming as dolphin are eve more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound

Redfish and Trout are the fish this month. - Myself,Gil Drake,and Lee Dunn have been fly fishing this past week for reds. It has been fantastic site fishing for reds, with a mix of 8 to 12 pound snook. Whats is somewhat strange, is the reds are very hard to get to eat.Usually if you get the f more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee

Seatrout action great in the Everglades - In spite of the cold water and cool temperatures, fishing was pretty good this week. On Wednesday I fished with Charlie Atwood, his sons Bret and Paul and their friend Scott. Our morning started off very slow. With a falling tide, I decided to fish i more...
Capt. Herb Kehoe - Chokoloskee

Land & Water - Reports have been frequent on the devastating impact of recent cold temperatures on local harvests which unfortunately spans land and water. On a positive note, this week I had to wait for a cold front to blow threw that had a strong line of r more...
Capt. Pete Root - Naples