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

Estero Bay: Grand Slam - Yesterday morning I had the opportunity to get on the water with Shelby Ramsey with FlatsHQ. We decided to take his Hells Bay Whipray and look for some tarpon. This trip gave me the opportunity to get on the front of the boat and fish. With only a fe more...
Capt. Joe Angius - Estero Bay

Good Redfish, Snook Action in Pine Island Sound - 4Cast SwFL 12/08/15 Capt. Ron Kowalyk Offshore: It was a dream come true, finally some decent weather for crews wanting to hit the way out marks. Some crazy kids here in San Carlos Park ran out 60 plus miles and found Dorado, snapper and more...
Capt. Ron Kowalyk - Fort Myers

Redfish bite best in the early morning on live and cut bait - As the hot weather bores down us the fish tend to move to cooler haunts. Early in the morning they can be found hanging out on the open flats looking for schooling bait fish and working in schools of mullet. As the sun rises they will push toward the more...
Capt. Rob Modys - Fort Myers

A Change of Scenery - My best friend has been wanting to come down from Tampa to go fishing for quite sometime. The last time we fished down here, which was years ago, it was in Estero Bay. So for this trip I asked him to meet me in Matlacha. Needless to say, we had anoth more...
Capt. Joe Angius - Estero Bay

Boca Grande kids flats fishing - 7-30-15 Today's trip was one of those last minute plans that was made the night before. I had made plans to take my grandson and two of his male cousins out fishing. I loaded the boat and was off to the boat ramp at about 10 am. I had sunglas more...
Capt. Darel Carter - Boca Grande

Estero Bay: Tarpon - Snook - Redfish - The fishing in Estero Bay continues to get better every day. With evening showers making their way into Southwest Florida's weather pattern, the mornings for fishing have been cool and crisp. The heavy rainfall also means that there is an abundant so more...
Capt. Joe Angius - Estero Bay

Estero Bay Report - All the rain has cooled the water temps in the bay and the bite has been very good. The best action seems to be early in the mourning around the oyster bars and mangroves on higher water. Free lining pinfish, shrimp tipped jig heads, or even cut pi more...
Capt. Jon Fetter - Estero Bay

Rain is a good thing - As more summer rains continue to fall, redfish remained giddy. Fishing the early mornings allowed anglers a chance to stay dry and put out spreads for reds. Redfish up to the 32 inch mark continued to feed both in open water and along mangrove shorel more...
Capt. Greg Stamper - Estero Bay

Rain cool off delivers good redfish bite, Estero Bay - A little break from the rainy weather was on tap for the end of the week and it looks like we'll be sliding toward the usual afternoon storms as we move through the weekend. Fishing reports have been good, thanks to the cooler water temperatures and more...
Capt. Rob Modys - Fort Myers

Fishing Naples in August - So far the fishing in Naples has really been red hot! I have had a few slow days on the back end of the blue moon, but all in all I can't complain. Snook, redfish, trout, snapper and black drum have all been chewing hard. We've even been catching a more...
Capt. Geoff Crouse - Naples