Estero Bay was slow-going Monday morning when I fished with Don Hudson. We released an 18 inch snook, caught keeper mangrove snapper and sheepshead, and released lots of small snapper, sheepshead and cravalle jacks.
Richard and Tracy Sturgill and six-year-old son Kendall, and friends, Neil and Sherri Moseley and eleven-year-old daughter Rachel, fished with me on Tuesday at the reefs off Bonita Beach. We had a good time catching Spanish mackerel to 25 inches, keeper flounder, and mangrove and lane snapper. We released ladyfish.
Ken Stachowski, wife, and two young children fished with me in less than ideal conditions on Thursday. The Stachowski family reserved two dates, one for offshore fishing and one for inshore. After consulting the weather, seas and tides predictions, we selected Thursday as our offshore date, with predictions of 1-2 foot seas, as it had been most of the week. The reality that morning was 3-4 foot seas and sloppy as could be, so we modified our plan to fish all day and headed for shore about noon. We caught keeper mangrove snapper to 14 inches and released triggerfish and jacks at the artificial reef off Bonita Beach.
Friday, I fished with Reiner Neumann and sons Chris, Brian and Steven, along with family friend, Dennis. We started out at MAY reef, but it was kind of slow, so we headed out to about 35 feet off Naples where we caught keeper Spanish mackerel, triggerfish, porkfish and whitebone porgies on live shrimp.
The photo shown is of angler Dr. Roland Rivera with a 21 inch redfish caught on live shrimp on a recent inshore trip.
