We’re in typical mid-winter southwest Florida fishing conditions. I tell my clients my goal this time of year is to have good action and catch a variety of species. That’s one of the things I love about saltwater fishing is the variety of species and the diverse marine ecosystem in and around the marine environment.
Beautiful is the word that comes to mind when thinking about the weather, water and fishing of late. The daytime temperatures have started to cool and the weather has been very consistent with a light breeze out of the east which keeps our gulf water calm and clear. Consequently, the fishing is very good. Snook …
Fished new clients Erika Ford and Brad Schofield today. Brad is a crappie fisherman from Illinois. He wanted to catch his first shark so we caught a bunch of snook and jacks first to have some action then went sharking’. Brad quickly learned how to pump a big fish and battled this 70# black tip …
Tarpon are starting to show and the fishing in Naples and Southwest Florida has been very good the past few weeks. A very warm balmy February has kept the water in the mid 70’s. During the winter months I tell my clients we don’t typically catch a lot of big fish so our goal is …
Fishing has been great the past few weeks. There are still some snook sneaking around the passes and adjacent bays, redfish have been prevalent the past two months and pompano, trout, snapper are fishing well plus a few tarpon will be cruising the flats the next few weeks. Snook fishing has been good, the linesiders …
February has been unseasonable warm with zero cold fronts and the forecast is for the warm weather to continue for the rest of the month. The water in the backcountry is in the high 70’s so consequently tarpon and sharks have shown up. The tarpon fishing is not as good as it will be in …
Naples Marco Island Fishing Report February 20, 2018 Read More »
Spring is hear in Southwest Florida. Signs include the arrival of the Swallow Tailed Kites and Purple Martins which I’ve spotted both this week, I’m sure exhausted from their long flight from Brazil. Manatees are becoming more prevalent and…tarpon and sharks have started to show in the backcountry! Fishing has been hot and cold which …
March 5, 2017 – Naples Marco Island Fishing Report Read More »
The winter solstice arrived early this morning, at 5:44am, EST. The winter solstice is the exact moment that the Northern Hemisphere is tilted the farthest it ever gets from the sun during the year. This lowers the amount of the sun’s warming energy that reaches Earth, hence, winter! What does all this mean? It means the …
November into December could be a couple of the best months for fishing and the weather in Naples and Southwest Florida is superb. Beautiful puffy white clouds silhouetted against blue skies with temps around 80 in the day and 60 at nite. We’re catching quite the variety of fish including Snook, Redfish, lots of jacks, …
Fall is one of my favorite times of the year to fish. In the gulf we get tarpon migrating south, snook can be sight fished along the beach, sharks and screamer bonita should show up in a few weeks.. Overall fishing is what is should be this time of year. Bait fish are thick off …
Naples Marco Island Fishing Report Sept. 22, 2016 Read More »
