Fort Myers Fishing Reports

Pine Island Sound, Charlotte Harbor & Matlacha Pass - We had just finished filling the live well with greenbacks and pinfish.My good friend Robert Castillo and I took off for my favorite trout hole.After catching a few small fish we moved over to another spot about 200 yds. away.What a difference moving more...
Capt. Glenn Grimes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - sheepshead, snapper, shark, black drum-2 out of 6 days with decent conditions: Bonita Beach, SW FL offshore After a blustery Sunday, small craft advisories remained in effect on Monday and Tuesday, and I again cancelled my offshore plans. Tides we more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - nice lane snapper, big black drum: Bonita Beach, SW FL I fished Monday in about 35 feet out of New Pass with live shrimp. We hooked up on something big for the first time in a couple of weeks—turned out to be a 45 pound black drum (photo). We also more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Permit Arrive! Greetings, Fishing in Southwest Florida is always interesting especially offshore. We are catching fish every day and almost every day it’s been something new. Versatility is the key and is ready to change it up to keep act more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva - Red Tide is all over us in Southwest Florida. In three words or less, it sucks. Gag Grouper, Snapper, Big Redfish, and Gator Trout are laying upside down in The Gulf and The passes. It stinks literally and the sight of it all is very depressing. BUT, more...
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Snook are on the move! The snook fishing really picked up this week after a few days of warmer weather. We caught a few larger snook in the Marco Island area and bunches of smaller snook In Pine Island Sound. Lots of trout, redfish and jack crevel more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers

Pine Island Sound, Charlotte Harbor & Matlacha Pass - The sun had just come up when I dropped the anchor over the side.I had just arrived at my favorite hole for catching bait.After about 10 minutes of chumming I started to fill the live well to the brim with greenbacks and pinfish.With the well fully l more...
Capt. Glenn Grimes - Fort Myers

Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay - snapper, sheepshead, and a patch of red tide Monday, I fished 18 miles out New Pass. We caught seventeen keeper mangrove snapper, five porkfish, and released lots of gag and red grouper just short of legal size. Fishing in 35-40 feet out of New more...
Capt. Dave Hanson - Fort Myers

Pine Island Sound, Charlotte Harbor & Matlacha Pass - Well the cold fronts keep rolling thru but the fishing has been good to excellent between the fronts.The redfish have been good one day and next to impossible to find the next.The reds have been running anywhere from 18 to 25.Nice for the frying pa more...
Capt. Glenn Grimes - Fort Myers

Marco Island, Ft. Myers & Boca Grande - Flats Fishing The flats are the best thing going on in Southwest Florida right now. We have been enjoying some of the best winter trout fishing in some time. Most days have producing 40-70 fish up to 5 pounds. There are three distinct places to ca more...
Capt. Scott Hughes - Fort Myers