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Tim Rushing

Tim Rushing
Naples, Florida
Reported: 3 days ago

The Naples Fishing Report for December is full of fish, fun, and mild weather! We’ve been bouncing around from Naples to Marco Island and the 10,000 Islands the past several weeks, and the fishing has been outstanding. December fishing down here in Southwest Florida is always one of those special...
Tim Rushing
Tim Rushing Naples, Florida Reported: 3 days ago
The Naples Fishing Report for December is full of fish, fun, and mild weather! We’ve been bouncing around from Naples to Marco Island and the 10,000 Islands the past several weeks, and the fishing has been outstanding. December fishing down here in Southwest Florida is always one of those special windows of time, where the skies are easter egg blue, the waters calm, and the temperatures balmy! If you want a tripletail, they are showing up all over the trap buoys. The back country is loaded with all kinds of fun things to catch, from trophies, to dinner, or loads of fish plain ol family and kid catching fun! The water has cooled down into the low 70’s and that always seems to jumpstart the fish into a frisky mood as they try to eat the waves of bait that are still present. They also start to pick up an interest in eating shrimp. The fish that seem to really start biting during this time of year are the seatrout. They love shrimp, jigs tipped with shrimp, and will eat pilchards. The weeks before the cold snap last week seemed to produce at least one nice redfish, every trip along with countless smaller snook, fun-sized tarpon, snapper and jack crevalle. That trend of nice redfish has continued. Since those couple of cold days behind the front, the fishing in Naples started producing a load of black drum, trout, nice redfish, jewfish, snapper, sheepshead and jack crevalle. We started mixing in shrimp, and jigs for bait, along with pilchards. If you want to catch something to eat, watch the kids or family have fun, or hunt a trophy it's a great time to make it happen
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Perry Bedell with On a Mission Fishing Charters
Naples, Florida
Reported: 2 weeks ago

November wrapped up on a high note, capped off by a busy holiday week and some incredible catches for our clients. As we transition toward winter and the water continues to cool, our offshore fishery shifts into an entirely different gear. This time of year, you truly never know what...
Perry Bedell
Perry Bedell with On a Mission Fishing Charters Naples, Florida Reported: 2 weeks ago
November wrapped up on a high note, capped off by a busy holiday week and some incredible catches for our clients. As we transition toward winter and the water continues to cool, our offshore fishery shifts into an entirely different gear. This time of year, you truly never know what you might run into offshore—and that unpredictability is part of the fun. Just this week, we ran across a school of massive Blackfin Tuna surprisingly close to land. Encounters like these are exactly the kind of bonus opportunities winter can bring. Along with the occasional surprises, all of our reliable staples have been showing nicely too. Cobia schools have been consistent from the nearshore wrecks out to the offshore structures, and they’ll remain one of our primary targets throughout the winter season. With the cooler temperatures, big Amberjacks are also pushing in closer. These fish provide an absolute blast on rod and reel—we'll chum them up and throw artificials or flies right at them on the surface. Winter also brings some of the best bottom fishing of the entire year, and it’s prime time for serious meat runs. Grouper and Snapper will continue to be major players offshore through the coming months. On the inshore side, we’re right on the edge of switching fully into our winter pattern, transitioning from live pilchards to shrimp and jigs once the backcountry water temps reach that key threshold. Live bait is still producing well with Snook, Redfish, and plenty of Jack Crevalles. As things cool a bit more, shrimp fishing will light up with Trout, Sheepshead, Pompano, Redfish,
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Tyler Keegan
Marco Island, Florida
Reported: 1 month ago

Redfish are on fire! Nearshore bite for kingfish, snapper, and snook. Tarpon are blowing up schools of mullet!
Tyler Keegan
Tyler Keegan Marco Island, Florida Reported: 1 month ago
Redfish are on fire! Nearshore bite for kingfish, snapper, and snook. Tarpon are blowing up schools of mullet!
Fishing in Marco Island, Florida
Fishing in Marco Island, Florida
Fishing in Marco Island, Florida
Fishing in Marco Island, Florida
Fishing in Marco Island, Florida
Fishing in Marco Island, Florida
Fishing in Marco Island, Florida
Fishing in Marco Island, Florida
Fishing in Marco Island, Florida
Fishing in Marco Island, Florida
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Tyler Keegan
Marco Island, Florida
Reported: 4 months ago

Great snook, mangrove snapper and small tarpon bite. Redfish should be picking up really soon in good numbers!
Tyler Keegan
Tyler Keegan Marco Island, Florida Reported: 4 months ago
Great snook, mangrove snapper and small tarpon bite. Redfish should be picking up really soon in good numbers!
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Perry Bedell with On a Mission Fishing Charters
Naples, Florida
Reported: 6 months ago

Summer time protocol is underway in Naples, FL. Hot temps, scattered thunderstorms and hungry fish will be the trend for the coming months. June fishing has been phenomenal so far and is one of our favorite months of the year for a reason. Permit fishing has been epic with large...
Perry Bedell
Perry Bedell with On a Mission Fishing Charters Naples, Florida Reported: 6 months ago
Summer time protocol is underway in Naples, FL. Hot temps, scattered thunderstorms and hungry fish will be the trend for the coming months. June fishing has been phenomenal so far and is one of our favorite months of the year for a reason. Permit fishing has been epic with large aggressive schools of fish being a common occurrence. They tend to move around more this time of the year but once you get on them it's go time. There have been a few Cobia around offshore as well and are always a welcome guest while we are out Permit fishing. In terms of inshore fishing Snook has been the star of the show. The Snook bite has been incredible with activity out of them wherever we choose to fish them. Whether it be in the backcountry, the pass, the beach or even nearshore wrecks. The Tarpon migration is still underway as well with good numbers of fish swimming the beach. This is bucket list trophy fish time of the year and the On a Mission team is out there grinding in the heat making it happen on a daily basis.
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Perry Bedell with On a Mission Fishing Charters
Naples, Florida
Reported: 7 months ago

Kicking off the month of May exactly how it should start with sight fishing big Permit and Tarpon. This is the best time of the year to target these bucket list game fish and this is primetime to catch both of them in the same day. We have strong numbers...
Perry Bedell
Perry Bedell with On a Mission Fishing Charters Naples, Florida Reported: 7 months ago
Kicking off the month of May exactly how it should start with sight fishing big Permit and Tarpon. This is the best time of the year to target these bucket list game fish and this is primetime to catch both of them in the same day. We have strong numbers of Tarpon migrating our beaches and there are massive schools of Permit offshore. These two fish will be our main emphasis over the next couple of months but that doesn't mean there aren't other options as well. There have still been some straggler Cobia hanging out offshore which has been nice while we look for Permit. Most of the wrecks offshore are also littered with Amberjacks which are fun to tease and throw artificial baits at. These are also great fly targets for any avid fly fishermen. Closeby there are great numbers of Snook inshore and nearshore. They're gearing up for their annual spawn and will be very hungry as we progress into summer. Our water clarity has been about as good as it gets which makes for some awesome sight fishing on all of the previous listed species. This is the peak time of the year for sport fishing in our area! We are looking forward to many great trips with all of our clients. Reach out to any of us with any questions you may have. Happy fishing!
Fishing in Naples, Florida
Fishing in Naples, Florida
Fishing in Naples, Florida
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Perry Bedell with On a Mission Fishing Charters
Naples, Florida
Reported: 8 months ago

Hot, sunny and south wind. The days we wait all year for are here. Inshore or Offshore this is the best time of the year for sport fishing. The bait bite in the backcountry has been stellar with all the species cooperating nicely. Snook, Redfish and juvenile Tarpon have been...
Perry Bedell
Perry Bedell with On a Mission Fishing Charters Naples, Florida Reported: 8 months ago
Hot, sunny and south wind. The days we wait all year for are here. Inshore or Offshore this is the best time of the year for sport fishing. The bait bite in the backcountry has been stellar with all the species cooperating nicely. Snook, Redfish and juvenile Tarpon have been steady. Just awaiting the big strings of migrating Tarpon to show up out front. Will be any day now. Things have been epic offshore with massive schools of Permit, swarms of Amberjacks and plenty of barracudas to pull on. Were sight fishing all of these species and catching a lot of Amberjacks on the fly which has been a lot of fun. There’s also some enormous Mangroves chewing for anyone who wants some fish to eat in between the sport fishing craziness. We will be serving up bucket list Permit and Tarpon trips all Spring and Summer. We’re filling numerous trips daily for April and May. Please reach out to any of our Captains with any questions you may have. Looking forward to an epic Spring with you all!
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Steve Gould

Steve Gould with Trophy Time Charters and More
Marco Island, Florida
Reported: 8 months ago

The last two weeks have produced many tarpon ranging from 70-170lbs. We also ran several Goliath grouper trips.
Steve Gould
Steve Gould with Trophy Time Charters and More Marco Island, Florida Reported: 8 months ago
The last two weeks have produced many tarpon ranging from 70-170lbs. We also ran several Goliath grouper trips.
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