Saturday morning, 1/4/20, was a windy one, but the tide was good in Estero Bay's backwaters, where I fished a catch & release trip with David Dunbar a...
Dave Hanson
February 11, 2020
The day after Thanksgiving, 11/29, I fished the backwaters of southern Estero Bay with Dianne Hogler and her seventeen-year-old son, Ryan. They used l...
January 04, 2020
I was off the water for all of September, but fished in southern Estero Bay on a windy morning Tuesday, October 1, with Roy and Derek Brown. The guys...
November 23, 2019
On Wednesday morning, 7/3/19, I fished miles west of New Pass with Dwayne McCoy and his family and friends. Although seas were predicted to be less th...
August 09, 2019
I fished offshore, about twenty miles west of New Pass, on Wednesday morning, 5/29, with Paul and Belinda Parks. It was sloppy heading out, despite a...
July 03, 2019
Wind, wind, wind, and more wind! That describes our weather pattern lately. Monday, 4/22, was predicted to be calm, after a couple weeks prior of most...
May 24, 2019
Saturday morning, 3/23, I fished southern Estero Bay's backwaters with Tom Weid and his son, John. The guys caught thirteen sheepshead on live shrimp,...
April 20, 2019
Monday, 2/25, brothers Ed and Fred Armstrong had planned to fish offshore with me. A weather front came through the area over-night, however, and kick...
March 23, 2019
Craig and Jan Royal and their son, Dan, along with Craig's dad, Ron, fished southern Estero Bay's backwaters with me on Monday, 2/4/19. The family use...
February 25, 2019
On Monday, 1/14, I headed offshore with Bill Conklin and his two friends, Mark and Susan. NOAA had forecast seas of two to three feet well offshore, b...
February 04, 2019
Tuesday morning, 12/4/18, just ahead of a cold front due to arrive in the afternoon, I fished 20 miles west of New Pass with Ralph Marino, Bud Mulchy,...
January 04, 2019
I fished offshore for the first time in many weeks on Friday, 10/19/18, when I headed out to various spots out to 26 miles from New Pass with father a...
December 04, 2018
