Fishing Reports by Capt. Joe Angius

Estero Bay: Fishing and Exploring Mound Key - This past week fishing has been fantastic, with the weather to compliment the action. My clients wanted to explore Estero Bay and truly experience Southwest Florida. I suggested that we fish in the morning and explore later in the day. Before more...
Capt. Joe Angius - Estero Bay

Estero Bay: Redfish - Snook - The water is warming up, as well as the fishing! Beautiful water has been found in the bay near Mound Key making the redfish and snook happy. This is the time to try new techniques, baits, and artificial baits. My client and I had the opportunity more...
Capt. Joe Angius - Estero Bay

Estero Bay: Redfish-Trout-Snook-Sheepshead - With the weather constantly fluctuating, wind turning up the water, and odd tides fishing has been difficult. Schools of bait have been hit or miss as well. Shrimp is my go to bait and is catching everything! Also, Its extremely important to find war more...
Capt. Joe Angius - Estero Bay

Estero Bay: Fallen Eagle Redfish Classic - I know this report is a little late, but charters have been keeping me busy. The Fallen Eagle Redfish classic is a benefit tournament that brings some of the best anglers together to support a great cause. I had clients booked for the day of the t more...
Capt. Joe Angius - Estero Bay

Estero Bay: A Captains Day Off - Redfish have been everywhere and they're all upper slot fish. Sight casting redfish is one of my favorite ways of catching them. So my day off, I decided to have some fun and land one of these big fish. Silently I waited for a fish to pop up. Aft more...
Capt. Joe Angius - Estero Bay

Estero Bay: Big Redfish & Sheepshead - The bay is holding a lot of quality redfish. The question is, how do you catch them? A great tip would be to scan a flat or mangrove line to physically see the fish. When you have located them, slowly move off of the spot, anchor up and be patient. more...
Capt. Joe Angius - Estero Bay

Estero Bay: Redfish - Sheepshead - Snook - This week I had a client who is a avid fly fisherman from the North and wanted to hunt for some saltwater fish. The wind and weather was not on our side, but the tides were. Several opportunities to present a fly to a redfish were there but no connec more...
Capt. Joe Angius - Estero Bay

Estero Bay: Snook - Redfish - Trout - Yesterday I had the opportunity to fish with a new client and we had a blast on the water. The tide was extremely low in the morning and limited where we could fish. Needless to say, we caught fish. Snook are around islands and deep holes. They ar more...
Capt. Joe Angius - Estero Bay

Estero Bay: "From Hell and Back" - Today's full day charter (8 hrs) gave me and my clients the opportunity to fish as far North as Hell Peckney bay and as far south as the Imperial River. Hell Peckney has gorgeous, gin-clear water and should be taken advantage of. The back bay pr more...
Capt. Joe Angius - Estero Bay

Estero Bay: Snook - Redfish - Sheepshead - Yesterday was a wonderful weary morning in the bay. I found that the bait of choice was shrimp, though, one could find decent whitebait around Big San Carlos. Snook were active and hiding in deeper water that was moving swiftly. The turn of the t more...
Capt. Joe Angius - Estero Bay