I can’t remember a time when there has been more bait fish around the waters of Pine Island and Southwest Florida. From small inch long glass minnows to large mullet bait is everywhere, on the calm days it looks like rain on the water except the skies are clear. We are finding the best fishing around the bait schools…
We have experienced lots of rain over the last couple weeks in Southwest Florida. In return the water temperature has dropped making for good fishing conditions around Pine Island. Schools of tarpon were found happily feeding on the morning high tides in Matlacha Pass. These aren’t the big boys but averaging fifteen to forty pounds they are an absolute…
The Best fishing around Pine Island has come during the early and late hours of the day. This is the most comfortable time to fish the summer heat in southwest Florida and generally the time fish are most active. The redfish bite was good over the morning high water with fish taking live pilchards and pinfish both under bobbers…
Our weather in southwest Florida around Pine Island continues to search for its consistent summer pattern. A low pressure system brought all day rains for the holiday weekend and now we are on a high with thunderstorms few and far between. It’s all good though as the rainy days brought down the high water temperatures and now we are…
You can sure tell summer is here, it’s getting hot. The good thing with summer is plenty of fish and fewer anglers not a bad trade off for a little sweat. Tarpon numbers are still good in Charlotte Harbor and Pine island Sound. Live bait fishing was best during morning hours with large Atlantic thread herrings then soaking cut…
I don’t know if fishing could have been any better over the past week around Pine Island in southwest Florida. We found tarpon plentiful and more than willing to eat, sharks of all sizes plus all the big mackerel, bluefish and trout you wanted to catch. We stayed close to home for tarpon and fished the northern end of…
Another week of beautiful weather and pretty darn good fishing around Pine Island in Southwest Florida. Tarpon continue to get the spotlight with good numbers of fish showing off the beaches, in the Passes, Pine Island Sound and Charlotte Harbor. The early morning bite has been the most consistent then the bite has been off and on throughout the…
Although our primary target was tarpon almost all week we ended up catching a lot of different species in the waters around Pine Island including one unexpected surprise. Over the week we caught tarpon in Charlotte Harbor to our north and off the beaches of Ft. Myers and Sanibel to our south. Over a couple mornings we located large…
We split the week tarpon fishing between the beach off Sanibel to the south and in Charlotte Harbor to our north. Both areas held plenty of fish, some days the bite was great all day and other days we had to work for our fish, but overall it was a good week. From Matlacha we are about centered between…
Fishing around Pine Island in southwest Florida was good for a variety of species from trout to tarpon over the past week. Bait of all kinds have been plentiful so we have been collecting a good mix this way we have the right bait for any opportunity that may arise. As usual live shiners (pilchards) were our primary bait…
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