Fishing Reports by Capt. Rick Featherstone

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Back In Action! Greetings, Well Ivan, thanks for the fire drill, you had our attention for a while! Thankfully there was no affect here from Francis or Ivan. Naples is fully back to normal, Ft. Myers Beach is pretty much cleaned up from Charlie more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Greetings, Well where does one start? Mother Nature has thrown us two major hurricanes in three weeks. This is the bad news. We lost twelve charters, canceled our trip to Bimini. We put many miles behind us for Charlie to the East coast with our more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Fishing Again! Greetings, Well with hurricane Charlie cleanup started, we also started fishing again this week. Thankfully Bonita Springs and Bonita Beach were spared any major damage as was our pick up point Lovers Key untouched. Lots of floati more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Charlie Comes Ashore Greetings, Well fishing fans its been sporty around here! Last week fishing was getting better and better. We caught several huge goliath grouper up to three hundred pounds! Bait was pouring into the area, tarpon had more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Variety Greetings, Hey fishing friends, life is good! With a new SeaVee 290b delivered and in service our charters are doing better than ever. Near shore there are tarpon at hand and willing to play. I have found them from Big Hickory Pass all more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Summer Patterns Greetings, Well fishing friends the awesome spring migration of pelagic predators is over and our summer pattern is in full swing. There is lots of bait in the area near structure of any kind. I have discovered that a much heavie more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Spring Turns to Summer Greetings, Fishing Southwest Florida lately is a game of variety. No one species seems to be red hot, buy many seem to want to play thankfully. Not a big problem when you don’t know what to expect next on the end of more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Silver Kings Rule the House Greetings, This report is one about one kind of fish. Tarpon! It’s been awesome for a month and more. Many days it’s the first bait in the water and a hookup. Amazing fishing for sure and we have enjoyed it completely more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Offshore Springs Into Action Greetings, Pinch me because it doesn’t get better than this weeks fishing. Since the last front water temperatures have been steady on the rise, water clarity improving, bait schools are moving in and with the more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Jacks and Kings What a Pair! Greetings, Well it’s a busy spring for sure. Our SKA (Southern Kingfish Association) division eleven tournaments have completed. Our team consisting of Mark Combs, MJ Combs, their daughter Brittany, my wife Liz, and more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers