It’s almost over, the hot days of summer that is. With the arrival of September it’s only a few weeks before we should break out of summers steamy hot days and transition to the cooler days of autumn. This is great news for fishing around Southwest Florida for many reasons. At the top of the list you would have…
Summer in southwest Florida means hot temperatures and plenty of rain and often thunderstorms. If you don’t mind working around the weather the fishing is often pretty good and competition from other boats is scarce. Redfish have become more consistent as summer progresses; most are legal size averaging twenty to twenty five inches with a few over size fish…
The July full moon this week brought us strong tides with good fishing around Pine Island. During the morning hours we’ve been targeting family action over the deeper grass flats with sea trout, Spanish mackerel, bluefish and other fish to give steady action. The grass flats are loaded with schools of small pilchards and herrings and gamefish are feeding…
Finally we are getting our daily summer rains in southwest Florida. This is a relief as the rains have dropped both the air and water temperatures that were becoming uncomfortably hot for both fish and anglers… Tarpon are still around and with a lot less pressure than over the previous months. Summer is a great time for shark fishing…
Finally, it appears a high pressure system that has hung over southwest Florida for the better part of the past week has finally lifted. The system brought northeast winds both day and night that really played havoc with our tarpon fishing off the beaches, in Pine Island Sound and Charlotte Harbor. By Sunday morning you could feel a change…
Sorry for the long overdue report, when you are having fun fishing every day time gets away from you. May has been a good month, thanks to all who have fished with us. Over the past week or so weather has dictated how and where we fish, and what we target. Of course it’s tarpon time in southwest Florida,…
We had to deal with wind much of the week fishing around Pine Island, but fortunately strong tides helped counter it and the bite wasn’t too bad. We needed to adapt to the conditions Mother Nature dealt us each day and work around it to find and catch fish. Still plenty of nice trout around, the best bite was…
Strong tides with big afternoon highs gave us good opportunities for a host of fish around the waters of Pine Island. The bite wasn’t always red hot, possibly due to the full moon, but fishing was good overall each day. A mixed bag of sea trout, Spanish mackerel, bluefish and small sharks kept rods bending and the kids smiling…
Over the week we targeted snook, trout redfish, Spanish mackerel and sharks around the waters of Pine Island. Despite several days with slow tides we still put together southwest Florida inshore slams that include snook, trout and redfish. Of the three redfish was the most challenging to catch, but the fish we are finding are running in the upper…
After several weeks of perfect weather this past one was more of a challenge as poor tides and days of really strong winds and some rain gave us a challenge. Even so, fishing was good as our waters continue to warm as we move into one of my favorite months to fish. Spanish mackerel fishing has been great, most…
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