black drum, flounder, sheepshead, redfish,bluefish (for 4th of July!):Bonita Beach,FL

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Steve Toyota and sons Jake, age eight, and Max, age four, along with family friend, Rob, fished Estero Bay, around New Pass, with me on Tuesday. We used live shrimp to catch mangrove snapper and sheepshead and a small snook. One angler lost a big snook that appeared to be over 36 inches when it jumped through the mangroves and broke off.

I fished Estero Bay on Thursday with Shane Hoover, her thirteen-year-old son Ben Griggs and Ben’s two friends, Michael Southern and Peter Ripke. We caught a keeper redfish at 20 inches, two keeper sheepshead, a fifteen inch flounder, a 15 inch black drum and a 20 inch bluefish. We released small mangrove snapper, all on live shrimp.

Check the offshore forum for reports on the rest of this week's fishing.