SW FL-Bonita Beach: Estero Bay Report

[fishbuster]

Most of this week, Ifished offshore, and my report is posted in the offshore forum.

Thursday, 2/19, I had planned to fish well offshore on a customer’s boat, but the timing on the weather-front predicted was unclear, and seas of three to five feet were predicted as the result of a windy front. I was afraid to risk running way out in the morning just to have seas get to rough to tolerate a little while later. So I made a judgment call to nix that trip. I ended up fishing in the backwaters of Estero Bay that morning with Jim Warner and son, Michael. We caught five sheepshead to 17 inches, a keeper flounder and a keeper mangrove snapper, all on shrimp.

Mike and Lea Conneally and friend, Bob Walz, fished on a windy Friday morning with me in Estero Bay, where we could avoid the rough seas predicted offshore for that day. We used live shrimp to catch four nice sheepshead to 17 inches and we released smaller sheepshead, along with a 20 inch snook, a 22inch snook and a 17 ¾ inch redfish.