Dave Hanson

I fished Wednesday in 30 feet out of New Pass, around the reefs, with Joe Soboloski and his three sons. We used live shrimp to catch keeper mangrove snapper, lane snapper, and Spanish mackerel. We released the mackerel, along with triggerfish, gag grouper shorts, and ladyfish. The boys kept the snapper for dinner.

Robert Duhlberg and his eight year old son, Daniel, fished the east side of Estero Bay with me on Thursday, where we released sheepshead, cravalle jacks, sand bream, and black drum.

The photo shown is of angler Virginia Stafford, with a 20 inch redfish, caught recently in Estero Bay, on a live shrimp.

Fish Species: mackerel, lane snapper, mangrove snapper, sand bream, sheepshead
Bait Used: live shrimp
Tackle Used: light spinning
Method Used: bottom fishing
Water Depth: 30-40 feet
Water Temperature: over 85
Wind Direction: S, SE
Wind Speed: 10 knots



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Dave Hanson

About The Author: Captain Dave Hanson

Company: Fish Buster Charters

Area Reporting: Bonita Beach

Bio: Captain Dave Hanson is a native of southwest Florida. He has been fishing local waters since childhood, and has been fishing professionally for over fifteen years. He is Coast Guard licensed, and is a member in good standing of the Bonita Springs Chamber of Commerce. He has been featured in several national fishing magazines, and he also appears weekly in the fishing reports sections of the Bonita, Ft. Myers, Ft. Myers Beach, and Naples, FL newspapers.

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