Fishing the Backwater — Florida’s Estuary Headwaters
An honest field guide to fishing the upper estuaries — St. Lucie, Loxahatchee, Caloosahatchee, and other backwater systems where snook, redfish, tarpon, jacks, and bass mix in water almost nobody…
Weekly Reports · Species Guides · Gear Reviews
Planning a fishing trip to Fort Myers/Sanibel? Start with our complete Fort Myers/Sanibel Fishing Guide for the full breakdown of where to go, when to fish, and what species to target. Below: the latest weekly fishing reports for Fort Myers/Sanibel.
An honest field guide to fishing the upper estuaries — St. Lucie, Loxahatchee, Caloosahatchee, and other backwater systems where snook, redfish, tarpon, jacks, and bass mix in water almost nobody…
A 30-year outdoors writer's field guide to catching migrating tarpon — reading the migration, finding the choke points, picking the right tackle, and the conservation ethic that built the modern…
The Boca Grande tarpon migration has reached its peak. Schools of giant fish are stacked in the pass, and Captiva and Sanibel beaches are loaded with...
Tarpon staging hard for the Boca Grande run, snook in pre-spawn blow-up on Pine Island Sound flats, and redfish active on the warming flats around Sanibel and the Caloosahatchee.
Fort Myers/Sanibel fishing report May 2026 — tarpon staging for boca grande run, snook pre-spawn blitz, permit on the flats.
April 2026 fishing report for Fort Myers/Sanibel. Inshore: snook on beaches. Offshore: cobia peak.
March 2026 fishing report for Fort Myers/Sanibel. Inshore: snook active on beaches and estero island. Offshore: cobia.
February 2026 fishing report for Fort Myers/Sanibel. Inshore: redfish and trout on flats. Offshore: gag grouper.
January 2026 fishing report for Fort Myers/Sanibel. Inshore: snook near warm water discharge. Offshore: gag grouper on reefs.
December 2025 fishing report for Fort Myers/Sanibel. Inshore: trout and redfish on flats. Offshore: gag grouper.