
2016-02-19 8:18 AM
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Estero Bay mid February - Finally some nice days brought good fishing! The backcountry bite was average for February,fishing most of the week for redfish, sheepshead, and trout. Redfishing was steady with most trips landing a few each day in the 17-25 size. Redfish continue more...
Capt. Greg Stamper - Estero Bay |

2016-02-15 11:09 PM
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Naples Fishing - Jan and Feb have been some pretty hard months to fish with strong winter storms and strong cold fronts. Even with some very challenging conditions fish have been eating. From redfish to sheepshead shrimp and jigs tipped with shrimp are the baits of more...
Capt. Joey Benko - Naples |

2016-02-15 8:38 AM
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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 |

2016-02-14 6:12 PM
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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 |

2016-02-14 2:24 PM
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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 |

2016-02-14 1:41 PM
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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 |

2016-02-11 2:11 PM
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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 |

2016-02-11 10:44 AM
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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 |

2016-02-10 10:45 AM
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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 |

2016-02-09 8:58 AM
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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 |