Naples, Ft. Myers, and Bonita Beach

November 2nd, 2009

Fishing Report

Fishbuster Charters’ Captain Dave Hanson reported, “Bill Story and friends, Mike, Dave, Jim, Marvin and Ed picked a nice calm morning to fish offshore with me on Tuesday, 10/28. We headed out of New Pass about eighteen miles and fished in 43 feet with live shrimp.

The guys were after pan-fish for a fish-fry they planned for this week, and we did well to fill their table with keeper lane snapper, mangrove snapper, yellowtail snapper, grunts, Spanish mackerel and porgies of the whitebone and jolthead varieties. We released lots of smaller snapper, as well as short triggerfish and red grouper.

Angler Randy Weestrand with a 19-inch whitebone porgie, caught on shrimp on a recent offshore Fishbuster Charter

Angler Jim Basara with a nice redfish, caught on shrimp along the mangrove shoreline of Estero Bay on a recent inshore Fishbuster Charter