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

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 9/3/05 by Capt. Butch Rickey Back to work last week after being off for most of August. The heat, slow fishing, red tides, and the near passing of hurricane Katrina all combined to make it a good month to be away from th more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - By the time I return from La (leaving today 9/6/05) the early goings of the fall migration South brings promise for Cobia, Kingfish, and Tarpon. I'll be back on 9/15/05. As for the Labor Day fishing report in and around Pine Island, there are vari more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - All kinds of snapper: Bonita beach, SW FL The photo at right is of a 70 pound goliath grouper, released on a recent offshore trip. I fished Thursday, after the swells from Hurricane Katrina’s effects had subsided. Fishing in 40 feet out of New more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Narrow Miss Fishing up to the advent of Hurricane Katrina had been fair to excellent. Bait was starting to come to the beaches of the Marco island area. We were starting to see bait come into the secluded coves of the Ten Thousand islands as well. more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - NO FISHING REPORT. LAST WEEK OF SUMMER VACATION. BACK NEXT WEEK more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - A Special Thanks Well we dodged another bullet … Hurricane Katrina was supposed to pass to our north, but turned southwest and passed southeast of us. From the radar images, it looked like the storm came off the mainland near the Rodgers Ri more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Grouper Grab Greetings, This weeks report is about one trip. I was invited to fish the Grouper Grab aboard Chris Thomas’s Holdemhook. It’s a Fountain 34. Its triple engines let us run at sixty miles per hour. What a machine! We fished sixty to n more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Black Grouper! Gag, Goliaths, Spanish & Snapper: Bonita beach, SW FL I fished Monday, 8/15, in 35 feet out of New Pass. We used live shrimp to catch keeper Spanish mackerel and mangrove snapper. We also caught some jack cravalle and blue runners more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor - Boca Grande fishing looking good. 8-15-05 web Snook season opens September First and should be good. It’s been impossible to predict much with fishing this year. We have the fish, it’s just working around fresh water, weather and red tide blo more...
Capt. Van Hubbard - Boca Grande

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - Sorry! No fishing report this week! IT'S TOO HOT TO FISH!! more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound