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

We are on a rebound - Fishing report for the week ending 1/24/2010 After some crazy cold weather that had fish and fisherman alike needing a break we finally got one. The air warmed up nicely and the water creaped back up above 60 which got our fish moving again and more more...
Capt. Gary Clark - Pine Island Sound

Southwest Florida Fishing Improves with Warming Trend - This week our weather pattern was what we expect from southwest Florida, mild days with highs near eighty. We had a couple rainy days, but overall it was a vast improvement from the deadly cold we recently experienced. The fish are slowly coming a more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound

January Fishing in the Naples and marco Waters - Well, hope everyone has gotten through the Cold Spell. This report is bitter sweet. I am not going to talk much about the fish kill but the positive side of fishing. I will say the kill was the worst I have seen since I started fishing in 1970 more...
Capt. Roan zumFelde - Naples

Prediction "Redfish will be fished to near extinction" - Our fishery in SW FL is in real trouble. As everyone must know by this writing, Gov Charlie Crist signed an Executive Order protecting our decimated snook population. I have not spoken with one Pro Guide who disagreed with the decision to close snook more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Trout Action Red Hot! - Fishing in Estero Bay this last week I was thrilled to find two things. First, the trout bite is awesome. We had two days with over thirty five fish released and both days we left them biting! Clients just wanted to try for something else we had caug more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Estero Bay

Sanibel Island Fishing - Sanibel Island Fishing Most people who like to fish know how cold the weather was here in the 1st part of Jan. around Sanibel Island. The cold water is finally starting to reach normal temperatures for this time of year. I'm catching trout and more...
Capt. Greg Hood - Sanibel

Mother Nature fights back - Fishing report for the week ending 1/17/2010 With the coldest temperatures for an extended period of time that I have seen in a while the one day I got out on a charter left a little to be desired. On friday with warmer air temps but icy water we wer more...
Capt. Gary Clark - Pine Island Sound

Offshore fishing remains good - Even though we were in an extremely long cold stretch the grouper fishing is very good.The last week we are still catching our limit of gag groupers and amberjacks mixed in.On the half day bottom there are still gags on the better spots.On friday we more...
Capt. Michael Avinon - Naples

SW FL-Bonita Beach: brrrrrrr but a few good catches - The cold temperatures of last weekend persisted into this week, but Alene Haug, her daughter, Emma, and family member, John, were brave enough to fish Estero Bay with me on a very cold, windy late morning trip on Tuesday. We used live shrimp to catch more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach

Despite epic fish kill, fishing is still good, - The extreme cold weather that we had last week killed a epic number of snook in Florida. I counted over 1000 dead snook for the FWC and most of them were breeder snook over 28 inches. I have heard reports from all over including lake Okeechobee an more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers