Dave Hanson

Virginia Stafford, her sister Carol, and her grandsons Mac and William, fished Monday with me in Estero Bay, toward Wiggins Pass. We used live shrimp to catch a 20 inch redfish and keeper sheepshead and sand bream. We released a cravalle jack.

Friday, Kevin Bordwell and son, Ben, fished with me in 35 feet out of New Pass, where we caught a mess of Spanish mackerel to 24 inches, keeping a half dozen of those, along with a few lane snapper.

We released small mangrove snapper, triggerfish and ladyfish. The photo attached is of young angler, Michelle Sokol, with one of the Spanish mackerel she caught on a recent offshore trip.

Fish Species: mackerel, lane snapper, redfish
Bait Used: live shrimp
Tackle Used: light spinning
Method Used: bottom fishing
Water Depth: 30-40 feet
Water Temperature: over 85
Wind Direction: S, SW
Wind Speed: 15 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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