Fort Myers Fishing Reports

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Unseaasonable warm weather has everything all confused. Tarpon are rolling, trout are biting anything, sheepshead are ripping off baits, and redfish are on cut ladyfish like a cheap suit. Snook are out of season but are willing and able to rumble aro more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: Nice mangrove snapper, a hogfish, Spanish mackerel and sheepshead After some family time to bring in the new year, I headed offshore again on Tuesday, Fishing with brothers Mark and Tony Kapala in 35 feet out of New Pass with more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: Gag Grouper a bit larger this week--encouraging! Nice Mangrove Snapper and Sheepshead Tuesday after Christmas brought rain and high seas, and I had to cancel my offshore trip for that day. Wednesday was still rough offshore, more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Rat Reds and Bull Reds Most of the flats action right revolves around redfish and trout. Trout usually dominate the scene but this winter has produced more reds than trout on just about every trip. I have been using soft plastics for the mo more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - 2006 produced some serious wind, redtide, plus vast amounts of fresh water from Lake O-Foley. Snook Season and Trout Season are now closed as of this writing. If you live in the Fishing Capitol of the World your dailt bag limit is 1 Redfish. more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL-Bonita Beach: more hogs & sheep, snapper Monday, I fished a catch and release trip with the Snyder family—Dave and Rhonda, son Ryan, and daughter Lenay. We headed out with live shrimp to about 19 miles out of New Pass, where we fished in 3 more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Greetings, The warm weather as of late has kept water temps higher than normal. With that our baitfish schools have stayed close and in large numbers. Near shore on the artificial reefs Sheepshead have started to show up. Bull Redfish are in the ar more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook season closes and Trout season's about to open. December 15th marked the closing of snook season. New years day marks the opening of speckled trout season. That's a good thing because the snook are getting harder to find the trout are gett more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - SW FL: Bonita Beach, Offshore report: 175 lb. goliath grouper, gag grouper, hogfish, snapper, and sheepshead After a blustery weekend, that caused me to cancel my offshore trips, I headed to the artificial reefs on Monday with John Maliszewski a more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Greetings, Greetings, With the good water quality and thick bait local fishing has been very good lately. Near shore sheepshead, Bull Redfish, and False Albacore have been thick. The sheepshead have responded well to shrimp on head knocker rigs. more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers