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

Snook Season Winding Down In Southwest Florida - With only a couple days left of snook season I cannot believe how fast the short two month season has come and gone. It was one of the windiest ones in recent memory, but still pretty productive. This past week was no different, the ea more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound

Tarpon Fishing Naples - They are here for sure just takes a little searching to find them. I have been from Naples to Sanibel this week tarpon fishing. Winds have played a huge role in the fishing locations. They need to quit blowing and conditions will be ideal. Bait more...
Capt. Chris McCubbin - Naples

SW FL- Red Grouper, All Kinds of Snapper, Goliath-Wrestling - Monday morning, 4/20, after a previous week of high winds and seas, I made the mistake of believing the predictions for 2-3 foot seas near-shore, with winds calm first thing in the morning. I headed to the Wiggins five mile reef with Tom & Dawn Wolfe more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach

Snook and Trout stay steady - We are finally seeing a break in the winds, fishing Matlacha pass this week I have seen good snook action with plenty of fish up to 27 inches. The bigger snook have slowed a bit. Sea trout have still been good with some fish in the 3-4 lb range all t more...
Capt. Gary Clark - Sanibel

snook and king mackerel around Boca Grande. - The wind is backed off and fish are biting again. Action has picked up every day so far this week. We caught some nice snook including a thirty one inch slot fish by Steve Cureton of St Pete on Tuesday. The water seams warm enough but snook are b more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

To Say It Stunk Would Be Putting It Mildly! - To say the week ending April 18th stunk, would be an gross under-exaggeration! You can probably still smell it from where you are! First, it was a week of poor tides, which by Thursday and Friday were reminiscent of a flat-lined heart monitor. I g more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Sanibel Fishing with Tarpoons.com - Sanibel Fishing with Tarpoons.com The wind and cold fronts continue to mess up the fishing. The Tarpon should be here now. I have seen some POONS but big schools of fish are not here. The water needs to be 78 degrees, just when it gets close we more...
Capt. Greg Hood - Sanibel

Largest snook of the year. - All threw March and up to this point in April,I've been sighting some of the largest snook of the year. Sighting them, and getting them to eat a fly or soft jerk bait is a different story. These fish are in the 12 to 20 plus pound range in the Back more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee

Good Time To Fish In Southwest Florida - Finally the wind let up this week to a very fish-able breeze. And the fish responded with a bite that started a little slow early in the week but really got rolling into the weekend. Getting back on strong tides also helped especially for getting more...
Capt. Bill Russell - Pine Island Sound

Tarpon Are a Changing - more...
Capt. Bert Barkus - Chokoloskee