Fishing Reports by Capt. Scott Hughes

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook and Tarpon Attack! Light east winds opened up the tarpon fishing and we had some big scores with giant snook this past week. Live sardines and thread herring were the ticket for all the species that we caught. With the wind not bl more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - High Winds Force a Retreat to the Backcountry. The past few weeks since my last report have been fairly productive. The tarpon fishing was hot before strong winds forced us to hide in the backcountry and fish for snook, redfish, snapper and sheeph more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Better Weather Provides More Chances For Trophy Fish The weather this week let up somewhat and the fishing followed. Most of the week my customers used live bait to target large tarpon and snook. However, we did try for some trout and jacks with a more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Some good fishing has been hampered by high winds. Evidently I have been doing something wrong. The wind gods have been punishing us all month. This doesn’t mean we haven’t been catching fish it just means that it’s been a little uncomfortable ou more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - More Wind.......More Tarpon The unpredictable windy weather has made fishing a very difficult task most of the week. Southwest winds at 15-20 knots have made the water muddy and made fishing for tarpon on the outside impossible. Never the less, we more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Lots of Wind, Lots of Tarpon! The wind has been really hammering us this week. March is usually very windy and I guess I was starting to get spoiled. The Ft Myers area wasn’t affected as much as Marco but the tarpon aren’t in the sound yet either, more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Let's Get Ready to Rumble! From Marco Island to Ft Myers live bait fishing is the order of the day. Large schools of thread herring and scaled sardines are moving up the coast. Small baits will be near the coast or in the bays and the larger bai more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook and Big Jacks Provide Plenty Hard Fighting ! The one thing I can say about March is that the wind is always going to blow. The past two weeks have been typical of this pattern. However, the overall fishing has been pretty good in the Ft My more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Bait's Here, Life is Good! It’s officially spring when a front comes through and it doesn’t affect fishing very much. Bait is everywhere from Marco Island to Ft Myers. This means the fish are about to be here also. Large schools are holding in th more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Nows the Time to Learn to Flyfish! This week produced plenty of action from Marco Island and the Ft Myers area. I fished the first half of the week out of Marco and the last half out of Punta Rassa. We found plenty of fish feeding but the catches more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers