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2016-02-01
1:21 PM
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Fishing great when weather allows. 22-inch mutton snapper! - Monday and Tuesday, 1/18 and 1/19/16, began just as the preceding week had begun, that is, with a cold front that brought high winds and seas, along with some cold temperatures. The two offshore trips I had planned for those days had to be canceled. more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2016-01-29
7:17 PM
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29 Jan 2016 It's Cold outside! - 29 Jan 2016
It's cold outside!
The last two weeks fishing with cold fronts coming through and windy days following has definitely slow the red fish bite down and pretty much everything else. With that being said, the bait fish are gone that I say e more...
Capt. Jim Conant - Matlacha |
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2016-01-28
5:02 PM
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Good Fishin, Weather Permitting, Goliath Grouper, Big Bull Reds - Rain, Wind, go away... Saturday on should be excellent. Despite El Nino we have been killing it on the days we can get out. The Big Bull Redfish are still around, heads the size of basketballs.
Goliath Grouper still hungry, had a huge one on yester more...
Capt. Brett Swenson - Fort Myers |
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2016-01-28
9:54 AM
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Estero Bay Report - The weather really played games with anglers this past week, but those that were able to get out were rewarded with a quality sheepshead bite. Fishing blow downs along mangrove islands, docks, or oyster bars proved the best location to find the sheep more...
Capt. Jon Fetter - Estero Bay |
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2016-01-27
9:43 AM
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Winter is here - Redfish, sheepshead, and trout became the targets this week as the nearshore waters produced very little all week. Sheepshead have begun there inshore spawn with fish up to 5 lbs available in the skinny waters of estero bay. Fishing jigs with small h more...
Capt. Greg Stamper - Estero Bay |
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2016-01-21
7:23 PM
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Snookin - The cold wind blowing strong
But it still did not take long
A 32 and two 30 Snook came to the boat
And that's all She wrote
But 8 trout over 24 were also found
Even with the cold the fish are still around
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Capt. George Grosselfinger - Pine Island Sound |
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2016-01-20
6:53 AM
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Crazy weather made things interesting - Crazy weather patterns made for some shuffling of start times and a few cancellations, but if you got out in between all the crazy this week things worked out just fine. Between tornado warnings, high winds, cold fronts, and flooding tides fish were more...
Capt. Greg Stamper - Estero Bay |
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2016-01-19
4:14 PM
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Redfish are Hungry - Offshore: You still had to have a suitable vessel to venture off the beach but the bigger head boats reported nice catches of snapper, grouper and kings. Other crews found those smoker kings from 3 to 9 miles out, just look for the birds and boils. S more...
Capt. Ron Kowalyk - Fort Myers |
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2016-01-18
12:34 PM
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Gotta love the grouper bite! - Saturday, 1/2/16, my first day of the new year on the water, was spent in the backwaters with Ann McManus, her brother, Phil Arnes, and their friends, Roger and Maureen Paruie. The group opted to fish the bay instead of the gulf, since a cool front a more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach |
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2016-01-16
8:43 PM
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16 Jan 2016 Water is cold and I'm loving it. - 16 Jan 2016
Matlacha, Pine Island Sound, Charlotte harbor fishing is good despite cold weather.
Since my last report and lower air and water temperatures the bite is still going strong. Still able to get inshore slams and a lot of other species. To more...
Capt. Jim Conant - Matlacha |
