Fishing Report - Naples, Ft. Myers, Bonita Beach & Estero Bay

Nothing exciting, but at least the red tide is gone...Bonita Beach, SW FL The photo shown at right is of a 4 1/2 pound pompano, caught on live shrimp in Estero Bay last Saturday. I fished last Monday, 10/10, in Estero Bay, around the Wiggins Pass area. We used live shrimp to catch five keeper sheepshead, and we released two sand bream and four rat reds. Friday, I fished offshore. Conditions were pretty sloppy offshore, so we stayed close-in, about 7-8 miles off New Pass, in 35 feet. We caught a bucket full of grunts and some porkfish, but didn’t get any bites from anything else.