Fishing Reports by Capt. Scott Hughes

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Excellent light tackle action! As I am sitting down to write this report the strongest cold front of the fall is bearing down on us just in time for the weekend. It’s packing temperatures into the 50’s and winds 20-25 knots that will shut down more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Fall Fish'in is Fun Fishing. We’re definitely in a fall fishing pattern. Run from a cold front every five days or so and kick’em when you can get bait. All in all, fishing has been excellent even when the wind has been blowing. During the cold fro more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Strong Winds Hammper Excellent Fishing. Fishing has been pretty darn good the past few weeks. Until today, that is. We are in the midst of 20-30 knot winds with gust to 35 knots. It’s pretty hard to fish in those kind of winds. Even deep in the ba more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook and Reds! Reds and Snook? Today is the first of October and that means its time for the best redfishing of the year. Well, the redfish in Marco Island couldn’t wait until October. Reds were a steady catch last week even after the tropical more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Feeding Frenzy! First of all, I would like to say that my thoughts and prayers are with those of you in New York. I checked my books from the past few years and about 10 % of my customers are from New York City. I hope all is well. As for the fish more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Seeing Red! The fishing in Charlotte Harbor is starting to move into a fall pattern. Redfish have taken over the top spot from the tarpon and snook are in season but catching a keeper has been anything but automatic. The last two weeks have prod more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Tarpon, Cobia......Gar? Well, I could sum up this week’s report like this. The tarpon are still here. The key word is “here”. The bite slowed this week for most of the anglers that I talked to. The couple of days that I got out we landed at le more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Whale Thing! My last three reports have been less than spectacular so we are going to make up for that this week. I usually spend most of August and September fish in and around Charlotte Harbor for tarpon and redfish. Two years ago the fishing w more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Cool water and freshwater slow fishing. Things should shape up next week! Its been a few weeks since my last update to the reports so this report will cover from the 10,000 Islands to Boca Grande and Charlotte Harbor and also the east coast more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Summer Heat! We are in the midst of summer here in South Florida. Temperatures are at or above 90 degrees every day and thunderstorms are common most afternoons. Tarpon fishing has been good but not as good as I have seen in past years. Snook fis more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers