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Southwest Florida Fishing Report - Bonita Springs to Captiva
Capt. John GiddyUp-Bunch
February 18, 2004
Fort Myers - Saltwater Fishing Report
Hot and Cold Weather means Hot&Cold Fishing
As long as 3-6 miles off Naples and Bonita Springs is producing like it is, it makes no sense to go anywhere else. As my Ole' Pappy use to say,"If he ain't broke, don't try and fix it Peckerwood! God I hated that name but oh how I miss hearing it (from him only).
Orthodox Jew Fish (opps) Goliath Group are on the bite at the Vanderbuilt and Wiggins Reef. I'm trolling Big Lip MirrOlures at 20FT and getting 2-3 puppies per trip. Puppies are 30-60LB fish. These fish have a nasty disposition and the ban on them needs to be lifted. 1 Goliath per boat would be a very cool limit to start. If you agree with me, get me on the FWC Commission.
Gag Grouper have been feeding and will really go on the bite tomorrow (Feb 19th). Today's low temp will get them hungrier than a teenager after school. My charters have been scoring Gags in the 27"-30" range using Bagley BangO'Lures and the aforementioned MirrOlure. If you can't catch em' on one of those two, the fish must feel like you after Thanksgiving Dinner.
In other words, they are stuffed. I like these lures in Green and Black/Silver.
A few Cobia are showing up south of Bonita. I chummed some up right to the boat with my Chum-Churn. We caught 5 on Monday and released all but 1. His butt got smoked at The Smoke House!
Tripletail are simply all over the place. I ran the swim bouy's on Ft.Myers Beach and we spotted 10 fish. 7 were hungry and two ended up with Capt.GiddyUp. If they are on the feed, a D.O.A. pearl shrimp will work.
Real Shrimp rule but all the bait shops are out of shrimp all the time. We have a lot of cool tourist from neat places like Canada. The French from Canada are fun to deal with when they visit. I better stop.
Big Trout are hanging around the grass beds of Estero Bay. I'm not a Trout fan but if you are call me and book a trip. I have 4 open dates between now and March 30th. GiddyUp!
PS: Try to catch me on Fox TV Sunday Mornings at 11:30
Southwest Florida Outdoors.
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