Fishing Reports by Capt. Rick Featherstone

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Big Boys Back In Town! Greetings; Mother nature sent us some great weather last week and the fish responded. Large schools of bait have migrated into the area with the rising water temperatures. Permit, kings, cudas, spanish, and tarpon are all more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Spring Arrives! Greetings; With water temperatures steadily on the rise our hopes of pelagic's like kingfish rise each day. The bait migration into the area has started. A few kings, permit, and even a sailfish have been hooked this past more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Reef Fishing Heats Up Cold Water Greetings; All of my fishing now is worked around the twice weekly cold fronts passing through. Some are strong, others are less significant, but all affect how and where we fish. Depending on where the last fron more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Happy New Year! Greetings; It was great to see all of my Christmas anglers return. One of the great things about guiding is you get to meet wonderful people and they become friends over the years. Fishing over this holiday season was very more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Big Red Is HERE! Greetings; In between some challenging weather we have had some really great fishing on our waters lately. Water temperatures have cooled into the high sixty's. As much as I hated to see the kingfish move south of our range, I w more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Winter Pattern's In Effect Greetings; With the commencement of steady cold fronts our water temperature in the gulf has fallen at a steady pace for three weeks to about sixty seven degrees as of yesterday. With that falling temperature sloppy se more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Seasons Change Greetings; Well there one thing about the weather that is predictable. Its always changing. As our seasons change from summer, to fall, to winter, several things change as well. Water temperature is believed by many biologist to b more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Pelagics Run Wild Greetings; Offshore fishing in our area right now is hard. Not hard to catch fish, but hard to decide what to target. We are in the middle of our fall pelagic run and the fishing has never been better, KNOCK ON WOOD. Not any ot more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Fall Fishing Explodes Offshore Greetings; The fall bait run is in full swing along our coast. Consider this migration a virtual moving fast food restaurant. Kind of like fast food with fins. Inshore there are good numbers of spanish more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers

Ft. Myers - Offshore - Fall Pelagic Run Starts Greetings Fishing Friends, Its been a crazy time fishing our area lately. With tropical weather systems being broadcast around the country showing terrible weather along the Gulf Coast many of our visitors have c more...
Capt. Rick Featherstone - Fort Myers