Fishing Reports by Capt. Rick Featherstone

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

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Fall !Fishing Heats Up Greetings, Greetings, Fall fishing is in full swing here in Southwest Florida. Spanish Mackerel, Tarpon, Kingfish, and Bull Redfish have all come to visit over the last two weeks. Artificial reefs are holding Spanish more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Early Fall Brings Action Greetings, Its late summer but the fishing tells me its actually early fall. Baits like Blue Runners have started showing up and a Kingfish, Tarpon, Blackfin and Spanish mackerel are here. Not in the big numbers like n more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Bimini, Bahamas Greetings, After two years of canceled trips due to named storms, my wife and I aboard the Magic Hook finally made it to Bimini this past weekend. We were part of a group of boats at the Bimini Big Game Club. We were fishing in more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Spring Fling In Full Swing! Greetings, These are the fun reports to write for sure. What’s even more fun is the variety of fish in our area right now. The spring bait run is in full swing. Our water quality is excellent. That combination more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Spring means Kings! Greetings, It’s a great time to be fishing offshore here in S.W. Florida. Sure we are still getting some rough weather but the good news is that our water has warmed up and our spring fishing is in full swing. Yes, all the pl more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Nearshore Action Makes It Fun 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 we just stay ready to change it more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - 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

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

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Winter Pattern Emerging Greetings, First let me apologize for the long delay. Wilma caused us some problems with our computer system. In general fishing is tough since that last cold front, but we are catching plenty of fish on our more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers