Fishing Reports by Capt. Rick Featherstone

Spring Fishing In Full Swing! - Greetings everyone, I am very pleased to say that spring fishing here in Southwest Florida is has started very nicely thank you. Inshore / Backcountry water temps have reached seventy two degrees. Snook, Jacks, and Trout have all been active in more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Cobia Kingfish Snook - Greetings, This is my favorite time of year. With the fall bait migration in full swing its hard to focus on one species of fish to target. Fishing in Estero Bay on our Ranger Phantom (Little Magic) this week we had a great time. Using scaled more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Offshore / Inshore - Greetings, Fall fishing is in full swing and our bait migration is looking very good. Like our summer water quality, our fall water quality remains very good. Our near shore fishing has been excellent lately. Spanish mackerel, Bluefish, Ladyfi more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Lots of Action - Summer fishing patterns are in full swing. Tarpon are on the beach, sharks are all over, permit, cobia, and cuda are on the wrekcs. Lots of trout action in the bay. Inshore / Backcountry We are finding baby tarpon by the bridges up to 50 pounds a more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Near Shore / Backcountry - Greetings, Fishing the near shore areas on and around the artifical reefs systems has been very productive the last few weeks. Variety has been great. Fishing the water column top to bottom has been key to sucess. Live baits suspended under a kite more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Cold Front Bring Action Greetings, The cold fronts we have been having as of late has kept water temps dropping. When that happens our winter fish become my prime targets. Winds and heavy seas have kept us close, but action fill our days none more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Fall Fishing Greetings, Fall fishing is in full swing and our bait migration is looking very good. Like our summer water quality, our fall water quality remains very good. Our near shore fishing has been excellent lately. Spanish mackerel a more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Good Water Brings Good Fishing Greetings, Greetings, With our summer water quality being very good our near shore fishing has been excellent lately. Large amounts of bait are everywhere and the fish that love to eat them are active. Spanis more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Golaith Candy Greetings, Well its mid summer and the water is pretty darn warm. Our main targets have been over reefs and wrecks from thirty to sixty feet of water this week. I was lucky enough to have the same clients all week. Our main tar more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Summer is Here Greetings, Well summer has arrived in full force. The good news with the hot afternoons is hot fishing to get us motivated to get out there early. Along the beach and on the near shore reefs there is good snook action. Beach s more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers