Catches & Reports
Hot water
Well, the water temperature in the back bays hit 90 degrees this week. After speaking with a few of the nearshore and offshore guides, their surface temperatures were also in the 88-90-degree mark. This warm water and hot afternoons means a tougher bite. If you’re a...
Dodging a few storms
Fishing was interesting this week as we dealt with two storms moving through the gulf. The storms never got close to Fort Myers Beach; therefore, we did not have great changes in pressure only a few small bands of rain. The bands we did get were mostly in the...
Start early
Already a week has gone by and as expected the waning moon has turned on the tarpon, redfish, snook and even trout! We will talk more about our back bays and river fishing soon. Those that got out deep this week did much better towards weekend, keeping our strong tide...
August 2020
So here we are smack dab in the middle of our Summer. I’ll give you the forecast for the entire month, Partly cloudy with a 60% percent chance of rain and highs in the low 90’s. Of course, the feels like temperature will hover from ninety in the morning to the low...
Weekly report
Fishing was best this week on the strong outgoing tides. These occurred late in the day early in the week and early in the morning by weeks end. This week it will be the incoming that will give us the most moving water. The back water and flats fishing have been...
Things are Hot!
It has been another hot one this week, with a few more rainstorms than last. We did need the rain, even though it delayed a few early mornings runs here and there. We did have some unusual Northwest wind this week that seemed to confuse a few fish in the back waters,...
You can book it
It has been another outstanding week all around Southwest Florida. The bite should continue to be good for most species. There has been a lot of hot weather for over a week now, but those fishing early inshore have done well. The offshore anglers are loving the flat...
