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 10/5/2002 by Capt. Butch Rickey Seems I picked a good week to be off the water with back to back tropical storms affecting our weather. Isodore foiled most of my plans for the week, but that’s better than loosing a bunch more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Feeding Frenzy! Tarpon, Sharks, Jacks and more! For those of you who follow my reports, I have been predicting an explosion of fish activity this fall. To put it bluntly, it's here. We are experiencing some of the best tarpon fishing of the year a more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Everglades City, Chokoloskee and Everglades National Park - Permit Release Hall of Fame Chokoloskee Charters -- Permit Catch and Release Hall of Fame A couple of dead computers  and one dying digital camera later, we are finally back up with the Everglades National Park and Chokoloskee fishing re more...
Capt. Charles Wright - Everglades City

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook and Jack's Attack! We managed to get in a few trips in between the hurracanes Isadore and Lilly this week. When the seas finally subsided, the bait was easy but most of the week 4-6 ft swells kept most of us hiding deep into the backcountry more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Fall Pelagic Run Starts Greetings Fishing Friends, Its been a crazy time fishing our area lately. With tropical weather systems being broadcast around the country showing terrible weather along the Gulf Coast many of our visitors have c more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Backcountry Light Tackle Action! The winds of hurracane Isadore forced anglers to focus their fishing efforts in the protection of the everglades backcountry. The fishing was generally good with catches of snook, redfish, snapper, grouper, more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Report for Naples, Marco Island and the Ten Thousand Islands - Prelude To A Storm Tropical storm Isadore hangs in the balance. As of right now, weather soothsayers are not quite sure what path the storm will take. One thing is for sure; fishing was good to excellent this past week. Although there are a lo more...
Capt. Matt Hoover - Marco Island

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay, Florida - REPORT FOR THE WEEK ENDING 9/21/02 by Capt. Butch Rickey It was a short work week with three trips scheduled, made shorter by a cancellation due to family problems. The two trips I ran were very good ones, both with old friends. The first trip w more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Pine Island Sound

Fishing Report for Pine Island Sound, Florida - Welcome to Capt. Terry's FISHING REPORT: Sept. 19th, 2002                    Redfish,  The reds have started schooling up on and near the grass flats. A lot of rain and stormy weather, has made the water in some areas a bit off color. Some coole more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

Boca Grande, Florida Fishing Report - Charlotte Harbor Fishing Snook season is open and the outlook is great with good numbers of keeper fish hanging out close to the passes and in deeper holes around the harbor. I found snook at the mouth of peace river south of Colony Point readily more...
Capt. Andy Boyette - Boca Grande