Southwest Florida Fishing Reports

August 2010 Tarpon fishing;

john — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:21:32 +0000

August has been a fantastic month for tarpon and hope to keep it rolling into September.

August in a nutshell

Jumper

Great month! Snook fishing has been off but the redfishing has been really solid. I have a few days in Sept. during the middle of the month so get in the books and get in the action.

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July 2010 redfish on fly;

john — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:47:11 +0000

Redfish love flies!!!!

May and June Tarpon Fishing:

john — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:20:10 +0000

Adam’s First Tarpon on fly and what a great fight!!! Great job!

Lets do it again soon!!

May and June Tarpon fishing report 2010:

john — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:21:35 +0000

Wayne and Walt fished the Everglades with me for four days last week and caught lots of snook, trout, and a few redfish on fly. We really had some great mornings fishing for tarpon and this is one we got to the boat..Great job Wayne on your first tarpon everglades style!!!

This has been typical of the last couple of months and will continue all through the summer.. Leaving around 6:00am and getting back to the dock around 2:00pm. I will try to post some more photos and I have a lot but they don’t have the correct format for this web-site. Just be patient!!!

On another important note. Please make your plans to fish southwest Florida because the oil from the spill will never reach our shores. The loop current and the southeast winds will keep the oil hundreds of miles from our shores.

Everglades fly fishing for April 2010;

john — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:54:02 +0000

April is half over and the tarpon have been here for a few weeks now.. We have hooked some monster tarpon and broke hooks and line over the last couple of weeks. Landing a few! We hooked a 20lb snook and landed one about 36″in the last few weeks. We are still seeing some monster snook when we are looking for them. The redfishing is solid and caught a few 25” fish sightfishing in inches of water.. But still everyone wants a few shots at laid up and rolling tarpon. It seems as though it is March!! The water temperature and the patterns are the same as last March.. Must have been the cooler than normal temperatures this past winter!!!

Big March Redfish on Fly;

john — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:47:07 +0000

March Madness

It is starting to warm up and the fish are showing up in good numbers. Wally had a 30-32″ snook eat his fly and the hook popped out but this redfish ate the second fly we presented in 6″ of clear water way in the Backcountry. 10 minutes later we had this amazing 15lb 36″ redfish in the boat. The biggest Backcountry redfish I have ever seen period… We saw another come down the bank even bigger.. After a slow start in the morning things really heated in the afternoonas they typically do when we have a cool night.

Everglades guided tarpon fishing;

john — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:32:23 +0000

Well the tarpon are starting to show up but not in big numbers. We saw a few yesterday but never really got the best shots at them…

Everglades guided fishing for March;

john — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:51:17 +0000

Photos from the first and second week of March. We saw and cast to numbers of 15-20lb snook these last couple of weeks and they wouldn’t eat. We really had some great shot and had monster snook track the fly for 15 feet and not eat. Wow what Drama!!! Adam Taylor one afternoon had 25 shots on two shorelines at these giant female snook and had them make passes on the fly many times. I think when the temperature warms this next week these big fish will eat!!! The tarpon should be here any day now!!!!!!

Pickup at the dock and full of anticipation

Big redfish caught early in the day

One of two nice snook Les caught during this very memorable day

February guided fishing;

john — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:49:33 +0000

We, are half way through February and the fishing is surprisingly good. Yes, we had a fish kill but the Everglades and the rest of Southwest Florida seem to be rebounding quickly. Last week Wade Mayberry had shots at some nice snook and landed five on fly one day. We also caught a big 4lb trout and some gag grouper along with plenty of ladyfish. I also fished around Sanibel with some clients and on our best day we had 30 good shots at big snook in the 35″+ range and lots of nice redfish. We didn’t get the big snook to eat our flies but they were there!!!! Tarpon should be showing up any week now and am really looking forward to a fantastic season… Come on down!!! I will get some photos posted soon!!

Pine Island Sound January guided fishing;

john — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:45:59 +0000

We had a great day on the water January 9th before the cold spell. We found a small area full of snook,redfish and trout. We estimated over 1,000 snook were present in this small area. The day ended with 4 snook to 30″, 10 redfish and 20 trout. I wish everyday was that easy.