Spring has officially arrived in sunny SW Florida along with the tarpon, sharks, snook, goliath grouper and more. Many people ask me the best months of the year to fish the Naples and Marco island area and I say May – July and Sept – November. The snook have started to show on the beaches as …
Fishing is starting to turn on with some bigger fish being caught and the springtime sharks and tarpon have arrived. All the signs of spring are happening. Swallow tailed kites and purple martins are here, osprey’s have chicks and tarpon and sharks are in the backcountry. Action has been great this week, I’ve caught bull …
Looks like the cold weather is behind us as the forecast calls for low 80’s for the next week! We’re still in the winter fishing mode which means I’m fishing open water for trout, pompano and the other not target species that show up as well as fishing shoreline for snook, reds and big jacks. …
In lieu of the cold fronts and wind the fishing remains steady in the backcountry. As is usual for this time of year there is rockin’ action and a wide variety of species being caught. Two days ago, between fronts was a pleasant cool, clear bluebird day. Although the water temp had dropped to the …
Fishing has been great the past week with blue skies and clear calm waters off the beaches of SW Florida. The bonita showed up this week with the beautiful warm calm weather. Bonita are little tunas that scream drag off the reel and are pound for pound the best fighting fish we have. These elusive fighters …
I love my backcountry boat and it does exactly what I need. They stopped making the Silver King in the early 2000’s. To poling in inches of water when fly fishing the shallows to running around off the beaches chasing bonita, my boat does it all. It’s over twenty years old and was due for …
Fishing Naples and Marco Island in September can be and has been very good. This time of year the bait is pretty much everywhere and the predator species such as snook, redfish, mackerel, tarpon, sharks and other species are all feeding and fattening up before winter. I’ve still been on the tarpon at first light …
I love battling backcountry bullsharks on light tackle. And still catching at least a tarpon a day in the mornings.
I’ve had really good fishing this past few days. Had client John R. and his wife and boys from England Friday and they wanted to catch something big so we fished a near shore wreck with cut bait for sharks and goliath grouper and within minutes caught their first 65# goliath grouper and then caught …
Dug this video out of the basement. Always loved it. Some years ago down in the glades, fishing with my longtime friend Todd Geroy. [youtube=http://youtu.be/FnOZ_2-48c0]