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

Still crushing it - The offshore and near shore bite continued for another week as a plethora of bait continues to stick around. Cobia, kingfish, tripletail and snapper fishing was good with most fish caught in 25 feet of water or more. The backcountry bite was also goo more...
Capt. Greg Stamper - Estero Bay

SW FL-Bonita Beach: Great Grouper & Snapper Fishing! - After a rainy Monday that caused us to cancel their trip that day, Erwin and Millie Metusiak, who have fished with me yearly for many years, fished Estero Bay's backwaters with me Tuesday, 12/8/15. Winds were strong, so we fished around the islands, more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach

Estero Bay Report - This past week offered anglers variety in the backbay. There were redfish around the oyster bars and were taking shrimp tipped jig heads or shrimp under floats. Sheepshead and snapper were found here as well and just as hungry for jig heads tipped more...
Capt. Jon Fetter - Estero Bay

Record Warmth in Fort Myers keeps the bite going - Cooler weather is going to push the warm air to the south and that should move the fish around quite a bit. That's also going to change things up as far as fish location goes and may set a more winter like pattern. We'll have to see if the drop in te more...
Capt. Rob Modys - Fort Myers

Grouper getting Better, Redfish still Tops - Offshore: Same old, same old, which in this case is pretty good. Weather remains reasonable to some degree just plan accordingly. This is a strong El Nino year which means windy and volatile weather patterns, I guess. Crews reported lots of Spanish a more...
Capt. Ron Kowalyk - Fort Myers

Naples & Marco Island Fishing Report / Forecast - The unseasonably warm weather in December has done a number of great things for fishing in the area. Mild water temps combined with a prevailing east wind has really given us some of the best water quality that we have had all year. More so than not, more...
Capt. Geoff Crouse - Naples

Tarpon Are Still Biting In December! - Above normal morning low temperatures have helped keep the water warm (73-74)and the local Tarpon are still active at night! By the afternoon yesterday the surface temp was up to 76.3 degrees. We have been seeing several schools of active Tarpon ever more...
Capt. Eric Anderson - Fort Myers

Fishing is Hot! - Matlacha, Pine Island sound fishing is one hot! I have been fishing Matlacha Pass and Pine Island sound with great success for my clients. We've been catching a lot of different species of fish inshore here are some of the fish we've caught, Spani more...
Capt. Jim Conant - Matlacha

Good fishing despite elevated winds, Fort Myers Beach - Windy and cloudy weather got in the way a bit over the week, but that's about to change. Sun and calmer winds are in the forecast, so it might be time to take a break from all the shopping and hit the water for a fish or two. Capt. Alex Dolinski more...
Capt. Rob Modys - Fort Myers

December Fishing - December has started out being a fantastic month to fish. From awesome limits of trout to fighting Kingfish and Bonita along the beaches now is a great time to fish in SWFL. The backcountry fishing has been improving with cooler water temps targeti more...
Capt. Joey Benko - Naples