Fishing Reports by Capt. Scott Hughes

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Pompano and Trout and a Permit! Last week was textbook winter fishing. Trout, pompano and ladyfish were the main catches along with a few snapper, whiting and a permit. Small jigs and lures are the preferred baits and for best results, tip them wi more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Cold Front Fishing. Sight fishing is still the most attractive prospect this week. Last week we found excellent numbers of snook and redfish in the shallow backcountry of Charlotte Harbor. Cold fronts have been coming through on a regular bas more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Sight fishing! If you have been following the reports then you know that I had a serious knee injury about a month ago. I figured I would be out 4-6 weeks. I am happy to say that I have been fishing for the past two weeks. The only thing that I ha more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Let's go trout fishing! As most of you know I haven’t been on the water for three weeks due to a busted knee. It is slowly recovering and I am actually off the crutches. I am going to try to get out and do some trout fishing this weekend. Th more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Winter Report for 2002 A lot has happened since my last updated report. I went on vacation for three weeks and returned to very cold and rainy weather which pushed the tarpon and snook out of the country and I caught the flu while I was at more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - I've got a bite! “I’ve got a bite!” was the quote of the week by one of my customers this week just after a 80-pound tarpon took his bait. I ran two trip out of the 10,000 Islands this week and we landed 11 of 22 tarpon we hooked with live baits. more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Fishing is excellent for snook and redfish! Good fishing still continues out of Marco Island. Huge snook, oversized redfish, acres of mackerel, bluefish and jack crevelle provided excellent action this week. Large sardines have been the key more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Good Fishing Returns! After three weeks of mediocre fishing the winds calmed down and the temperatures tipped the mid 80’s and the fishing responded as a result. Trips prior to Turkey Day were still the “winter” mode with cool winds and choppy sea more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - To Cold, To Dirty, To Small I forgot to write the report for this week so I’m going to report about some flyfishing that I have been doing in the 10,000 Islands. Business has been slow so I have been trying to get out and explore some areas. My ch more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Bad weather = Ok fishing I have one question to ask. Who cursed the wind gods? Let me give a breakdown of our weather for the past 14 days. Cold front, followed by a week of 20-knot winds, followed by a hurricane, followed by another cold front. T more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers