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

Fishing the fronts - 15 February 2016 Fishing the fronts These first two weeks of February have been a challenge to find the fish. With what seems to be a cold front or storm every other day or two days changes up the bite of the fish. On the cold mornings I have been more...
Capt. Jim Conant - Matlacha

snookin - Friday brought cool winds again a 30 incher got the rod to bend Saturday 12 Snook and another 30 fish Sunday a bigger Snook was our wish And after the first 7 Snook came aboard A 32 incher was our reward AllArtificial Lures Only more...
Capt. George Grosselfinger - Pine Island Sound

Fishing good despite nasty wind and rain - The weather and water quality issues have been the headline for the previous week. An abundance of rain, very windy weather and cold temperatures have all plagued anglers and has made finding fish a challenge. But it's not impossible if you are willi more...
Capt. Rob Modys - Fort Myers

SW FL-Bonita Beach: Big snapper, sheepshead, redfish, trout - Tuesday, 2/2/16, I headed 20 miles offshore in calm seas with Ron Musick, Eddie Alfonso, and Dick Arnett. The guys used live shrimp to catch seven nice mangrove snapper keepers to 16 inches, a dozen lane snapper keepers to 15 inches, seven porgies al more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach

Estero Bay Report - The dirty water in addition to the cold windy weather has made for tough conditions for anglers the past week. The key to locating and catching fish has been to find cleaner water. Here anglers will find spotted seatrout willing to take shrimp unde more...
Capt. Jon Fetter - Estero Bay

Winter Fishing the Backwaters of Naples with El Nino - Boy, what a change we have made with the weather during the last month. January started out more like summer and thanks to the powerful El Nino, we were suddenly forced into one of the most extreme winter seasons I have ever fished through during my more...
Capt. Todd Geroy - Naples

SW Florida - Redfish: The redfishing can be very good in the winter months. When found, they are usually in large schools. They may not run as large as the summer reds, but still very fun to catch. Call ahead and get the good tides. Watch for large schools on t more...
Capt. Terry Pitz - Pine Island Sound

Estero bay in February - As we worked through the week windy days made for some interesting fishing. Between the cold fronts, charters were shuffled around and we still got out a few times to catch fish. Throughout the week we had to move around a bunch to find areas that ga more...
Capt. Greg Stamper - Estero Bay

Sheepshead Cold Weather Bite - Get out your #6 circle hooks, split shot and 20 lb. fluorocarbon leader material and a thermos of hot tea to enjoyed bundled up in your windbreaker. Sheepies dominated the cold water bite with scads of fatties reported filling the larders of stalwart more...
Capt. Ron Kowalyk - Fort Myers

Estero bay thru Pine Island - Finally a break in the rain and winds had anglers on the bite this weekend thru Wednesday. After the winds died down and the water began to loose the sediment it carried through most of the previous week, fishing got better. Sheepshead continue to be more...
Capt. Greg Stamper - Estero Bay