SouthWest Florida Fishermen

Five Cobia caught, three released, some nice Lane Snapper 15 to 17 inches, three Barracuda, Grunts, Blue Runners, and way to many Goliath Grouper. Released 6 Goliath for over 2000 pounds of grouper. Had another six we never got up off the bottom....

Gulf water is in the low to mid 70's depending on tide and where you are. Snook, Tarpon, and Sharks are showing up everywhere. Spanish Mackerel are back late in the season but here now in large numbers. Bait fish running the beaches along with...

l come to SW Florida a lot and would like to fish bareassed with a fishing buddy when l come down....lets do this...

Not at 100% yet but good enough to get out on the water for a day of fishing. Full day trip 12 hours. Had to beat the fish off. Sharks, Grouper, Snapper, AJ's, all good and fish for dinner. Before you know it will be back to naked fishing!!

First time out in a long time due to knee and picked a cold and windy day. Hard to get out of the wind and when you did you were on in the right place to fish the tides. Called it a short day. Everything will improve by the end of the month!!

Did some elective nee surgery several weeks ago and finally just getting everything back to normal. Hope to be out fishing in the next couple weeks. Red grouper bite is on as is the snapper bite. AJ's and Cobia available also. Counting the days...

First, Welcome to all the new members here as I have not been here for a couple weeks and noticed the group grew again. Baby steps, but growing. We can always use some more fishermen and women here. Hope we can maybe talk in the near future. Back to...

Red Tide is in the area. Hoping it will get blown off shore. Dead fishing floating in the passes and dead fishing covering the bottom in large areas. Large dead red fish washing up on the beach, 10 to 20# Reds.

Looking for other guys in the area, Naples/Marco who enjoy both boating and fishing when the weather lets us get out on the gulf. Whats better than a day out on the water with a buddy or two. To be clear I am not offering a free boat ride to people....

First and foremost, Bait is everywhere. We had great bait, Pin Fish and Pilchards. Unfortunately, we couldn't find the snook in any of the places we fished. We were fishing the worse part of the tide as it was outgoing and these spots are best...