Fort Myers Fishing Reports

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Mostly sheepshead and some tripletail: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at rigght is of the 7 pound tripletail caught this past Friday on an ofshore trip. I fished Monday, 2/20, in 34 feet out of New Pass. We caught a 15 inch black drum, fiv more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Chammber Weather Permited! Greetings, One bit of noteworthy news. We have added a boat to our charter business. I am thrilled to announce that my son in law Capt. Jim Schnering has joined the Magic Hook team. Capt. Jim is running the boat that m more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Snapper, sheepies, a tripletail-slightly better bite this week: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at right is of a pair of gag grouper, caught on an offshore trip last month. Sunday and Monday this week remained rough offshore, not to mentio more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Fishing in SW FL has been very difficult of late. Billions of gallons of fresh water are still being flushed down the C-Hatchie River. There is growing concern if a fix to this monumental problem is possible. Trout and Redfish have provided some chea more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - Sheepies and trout in the shallow bay; rough offshore-cold fronts-A tough week of fishing in Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at right is of a 23 inch gag grouper, caught last month on an offshore trip. I was looking forward to some calm se more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - 35 pound black drum: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at right is of a the 35 pound black drum we caught offshore this past Monday. Monday, I fished in 32 feet out of New Pass. Fishing was a little slow at first--we caught and released some more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Big Fish Out Far! Greetings, On the nice days we are really catching some great fish right now! On the sloppy days we are working very hard for it. In general, the key phrase would be action. On our Four Hour charters working on the more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Hippee! Our limit of 1 Snook begins Feb 1st! How about that fishing fans? 1 Redfish. Jeb Bush proclaims Florida as the Fishing Capital of the World. Jeb is almost as good of a Snake Oil salesman as a close relative of his (Hint: Not his Dad who is more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - 25 lb. jack, snapper, more wind: Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at right is of a unusually large (for this area) cravalle jack, weighing 25 lbs., caught this past Wednesday in Estero Bay. Tuesday, fishing 17 miles out of New Pass, in 40 f more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Gator Trout Action! Winter trout fishing is usually the best trout fishing of the year and this winter is no different. We usually put up good numbers of trout most of the year but the quality of fish the last few weeks has been better than ad more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers