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

Naples beach Snook cooperate nicely - Spent the morning with Craig Mauritz of Pennsylvania today. He had only caught a few beach Snook before, so I was anxious to put him on fish. The conditions for the first couple hours were not very good (dirty water and waves), but he stuck a f more...
Capt. Paul Wolter - Naples

great action with tarpon and snook. - 6-1-09 report Tarpon are everywhere and the winds are backing off to get at the Beach fish. Boca Grande Pass the surrounding areas are loaded with giant silver kings. This past weeks West winds have kept us off area beaches and everyone fishing more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Sanibel Fishing with Tarpoons.com - Sanibel Fishing with Tarpoons.com Fishing the last few days was slow in the daytime with off tides. The bite was great on the falling tides late afternoon into the evening. Tarpon was the name of the game. With all boats hooking up more than more...
Capt. Greg Hood - Fort Myers

Tarpon and Snook, Now Is The Time To Catch Both - Tarpon and snook dominated the fishing in the waters of Southwest Florida over the last week of the month. Snook were feeding heavy on bait schools that followed the extreme high tides onto the flats and under mangrove points. Tarpon were concentra more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound

Tarpon and Snook - Considering the wind,my anglers did very well the last 4 days on the Snook and Tarpon. We landed probably 125 snook in the 1525 range. The tarpon have been from about 30lbs. to 130 lbs. Despite the seasonal change we felt we did really well. So more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee

Spring means Change in Everglades National Park - With the coming of spring, the water in the backcountry has come up probably by 12 inches. This means the fish are way back under the mangroves with the bait. It's a must that you find water where their is structure,and banks that the snook can't g more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee

Beach Snook in better numbers - The Snook on the beach are there in good numbers. I scouted a spot I hadnt fished in a long time and saw probably a hundred this morning, but it was a little tough feeding them. I wound up with 4 including a pretty nice one. Caught them all on more...
Capt. Paul Wolter - Naples

The Rainy Season Arrived Early! - The rainy season arrived early, as a late season cold front and a tropical low pressure center just off the east coast of Florida combined to make it a lot of wet, stormy, and often threatening weather. We needed the rain, but it wasn't good for bus more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Naples Fishing Report - Well I think its safe to say rainy season has come early in Naples. I was only able to get in two out of my five trips this week. The rain we did get was needed and will really get the tarpon going. The low pressure had a big swell in the water and more...
Capt. Chris McCubbin - Naples

Stormy weather makes for great bay fishing - Fishing report for Sanibel week ending 5/24/09 I got a chance to know my rain suit a little to well this week with five strait days of rain. I will give my clients credit though no one backed out and they reaped the benifits of great snook, redfish a more...
Capt. Gary Clark - Sanibel