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

One Last Trip After My Injury! - Fishing report for the week ending May 16, 2015: The time between my last trip last Thursday and this morning had been crazy.  I had strange things happen the Thursday afternoon that Bill and Gregg didn't know about.  No details here, but I spend more...
Capt. Butch Rickey - Sanibel

Lots of Action Offshore & Inshore - Monday morning, 5/18, Mike and Casey Calvert fished a catch-and-release trip with me in Estero Bay's Mound Key area, using live shrimp for bait. The couple caught and released a good variety of fish, some of which were would-be keepers. The couple re more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Bonita Beach

Snook ot Tarpon - Snook fishing continues to be great with both pilchards and threadfins getting their attention daily. Snook are now in their beach haunts fairly regularly as well as the pass mouths and docks with good current. Using 2/0 and 3/0 circle hooks and 30lb more...
Capt. Greg Stamper - Estero Bay

Snook fishing is on fire! - My apologies for not updating my report in some time... I took a few weeks to catch up on some personal fishing time, which seems to happen less & less lately. The last few weeks have been busy with Snook trips, and the line-siders have not disa more...
Capt. Geoff Crouse - Naples

Tarpon Top Target - Offshore; Lots of wind last few days kept teams close to shore. Tarpon were the main target and there was a hard won battle at times with the chop a factor. Poons are just off the beaches all along our region, good action off Big Carlos Pass, the Shr more...
Capt. Ron Kowalyk - Fort Myers

Tripletail fishing Boca Grande - Friday 5/29/15 Today's target would be tripletail. It started out with trailer light problems. Turns out that the trailer light was not waterproof, nor water resistance at all. The bulb was so rusted it could not be removed from the housing. more...
Capt. Darel Carter - Boca Grande

Summertime Conditions - Lots of Beach Action - Conditions: Water temps have dropped a couple degrees with the showers and afternoon sea breezes. The back country fishing remains a bit slow, especially mid day. The beaches will be very active with tarpon and some big snook. Lots of skipjacks, gree more...
Capt. Dave Pecci - Charlotte Harbor

Back Bays and Shallow Water Wrecks Fishing Report! - The back bays of Estero are very productive for my anglers. Redfish, snook and trout are the main targets. Look for moving water around oyster bars and flats on the lower stages of the tides and the mangrove shorelines on the higher stages of the ti more...
Capt. Scott Theis - Fort Myers

Estero Bay Report - The fishing continues to be tough for anglers in and around Esteto Bay this past week. Most seem to be chasing tarpon off north Sanible island all the way to Bica Grande, drifting white baits or free lining crabs under floats. Those looking for tabl more...
Capt. Jon Fetter - Estero Bay

Winds made the bite soft - Fishing was good early in the week for redfish in Estero bay, however the bite was much tougher Sunday and Monday. Redfish were still being caught on the tides that had good moving water but Mother Nature had the winds pushing against the flow many t more...
Capt. Greg Stamper - Estero Bay